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The University's Sustainability Plan has been revised and will now replace the previous plan. The Sustainability Plan more firmly establishes the areas and overall goals identified in the University’s Sustainability Strategy within first, second and third-cycle education, research, external engagement and management and administrative services. As part of this revision, new goals and activities ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-plan-2020-2026-has-been-revised - 2025-12-18

To further strengthen its strategic profile area Nature-based Future Solutions, Lund University is now announcing a new position as Associate Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, a position that will be based at the newly formed Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The investment supports cutting-edge research to help tackle environmental and societal challenges. Nature-based Solut

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/strategic-investment-sustainable-development-and-nature-based-solutions-lund-university-recruits-new - 2025-12-18

Datum för bidragsbeslut hos VR är nu publicerade Konstnärlig forskning: 26 september 2018, 14:00Medicin och hälsa: 25 oktober 2018, 14:00Tillgängliggörande av infrastruktur: 30 oktober 2018, 14:00Naturvetenskap och teknikvetenskap: 1 november 2018, 14:00Neutronspridning: 1 november 2018, 14:00Utbildningsvetenskap: 1 november 2018, 14:00Olof Palmes gästprofessur: 5 november 2018, 14:00Kerstin Hesse

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/decision-dates-vr-applications - 2025-12-18

Six of the most innovative ideas and projects currently underway at Lund University received this year’s Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s Future Innovations Award. The winners shared a total of SEK 500,000 between them. The projects included an energy storage system using spent car batteries and a new method for assessing a patient’s risk of stroke. The Future Innovations Prize has been awar

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/six-innovative-ideas-lund-receive-prize - 2025-12-18

For the academic year 2020–2021, the Faculties of Humanities and Theology (HT) are funding 25 per cent of a business developer’s post at Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE). The aim is to broaden their range and commissioned education is deemed to be an important tool for obtaining updates from the wider world. Through collaboration it is hoped to increase understanding of the opportunit

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-humanities-and-theology-embark-strategic-collaboration-commissioned-education - 2025-12-18

See the exhibition at Skissernas Museum where Gunilla Klingberg is highlighting her latest public art projects for two much-discussed public environments in Stockholm, and some of her international projects. For the exhibition Klingberg has also created new works generated from the material she has saved during her processes. Klingberg’s work Virvelvind (Whirlwind) at Sergels Torg is fully integra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-wringwrenchwhirlweave - 2025-12-18

Emissions from business travel by air dropped by 86% compared with the previous year, but energy consumption was not much affected by the pandemic. The environmental management report for 2020 has now been submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency and shows that 5 out of 7 relevant environmental targets were met. For example, the University has approved new investment regulations for fossil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/results-2020-environmental-management-report - 2025-12-18

It should be possible to plan the 2021 autumn semester based on some reversion, provided that the infection rate allows it. Teaching and assessment are to continue to be conducted digitally with no physical presence on the University’s premises, up to and including 29 August 2021. The University has also decided that all staff members are entitled to get vaccinated against Covid-19 during paid wor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-vice-chancellors-decision-12-may-regarding-covid-19 - 2025-12-18

The University is now launching a new round of excellence initiatives to bolster the recruitment of top international researchers through the Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF) programme. With this initiative, the University aims to foster its international research presence and provide early-career researchers with the best opportunities to advance their careers. Previous roundThe first call for ap

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-round-excellence-initiatives-early-career-researchers-and-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2027 - 2025-12-18

To further professionalise the leadership role, the faculty management, in collaboration with the University's central HR section, has developed a year-long leadership programme to be offered to senior lecturers or newly appointed professors. Lena Eliasson, Vice Dean with special responsibility for employeeship, work environment and infrastructure, explains. Why have you developed a new leadership

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-faculty-course-better-leaders-imply-stronger-research-environments - 2025-12-17

During the past couple of months, the Department has had the pleasure of welcoming Lindsey Blumell as a visiting research fellow. Ms. Blumell is doing her doctorate (PhD) at Texas Tech University, USA; her research focuses on the investigation of primarily NGO (Non Governmental Organisation) journalism in a digital age, international communication within the public sphere, and human rights. In res

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lindsey-blumell-visiting-research-fellow-field-social-media-and-human-rights - 2025-12-17

Growing concerns over the threat posed by deceptive and false information have prompted the UK government to focus efforts on countering disinformation. Since 2018 a research team at ISK have supported the UK Government Communication Service (GCS) in this regard by developing a counter-disinformation toolkit. The RESIST Disinformation Toolkit provides a step-by-step approach to countering disinfor

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/resist-toolkit-isk-supports-uk-government-countering-disinformation - 2025-12-17

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/altered-cell-behaviour-behind-resistance-neuroblastoma - 2025-12-17

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/driving-sustainability-change-times-restriction - 2025-12-17

Together with Sparbanken Skåne, LU Innovation awards an annual prize to ideas that are good enough to become the innovations of the future. This year, Elaine M'Nkubitu, student at the EMP programme at the IIIEE, is one of the winners. Her idea is to turn organic waste into affordable and sustainable fertilizer in Kenya, where she grew up. Congratulations Elaine! You’re one of the winners of the Fu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/student-elaine-mnkubitu-one-winners-future-innovation-prize - 2025-12-17

CASE PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place". Housing policies can be instrumental in addressing several major public health issues. - Thus, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable housing policies to accommodate the growing number of seniors in accessible home environments. In order

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-12-17

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/not-too-fast-not-too-slow-perfect-pace-migrating-birds - 2025-12-17

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/honeybees-crowd-out-bumblebees-even-flower-rich-heathlands - 2025-12-17

We are very happy to announce that Prof. Martin L Olsson and the Transfusion Medicine research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center. Martin L Olsson is Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine at Lund University, a Consultant at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, and Medical Director for the Nordic Reference Laboratory

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-martin-l-olsson-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-12-17

SASNET's Director, Ted Svensson, and Joel Lee (Williams College) are jointly organising a workshop at Lund University 30-31 May 2023. They would like to invite postdocs and PhD students affiliated with a university in the Nordic countries to apply to participate. Deadline is the 10 February. Workshop description  Though Hindu nationalists posit the existence of a monolithic ethnoreligious majority

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-12-17