To enable for everybody to follow the process of identifying the profile areas at Lund University a new blog has been created. The blog is intended to gather all important information concerning the process to make it accessible to all. There will post where you can follow the latest activities in the process. For those who did not have the chance to attend the information meeting on 12 November,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/follow-process-identifying-profile-areas-new-blog - 2025-08-29

Regarding applications for university-wide funding – interdisciplinary projects focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. Lund University has established a research programme for excellence entailing employment of doctoral students and postdocs and focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development for the period 2021-2025. Within the framework of this programme, on 15 March 2021 the R

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forthcoming-call-applications-projects-focusing-agenda-2030 - 2025-08-29

In her teaching in organization and leadership at Lund University School of Economics and Management, Nadja Sörgärde works in line with what is called "blended learning". Here she talks about how she thinks about course design and use of video in teaching. Read more and take part of her practical tips! https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/blended-learning-practice

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Many students at Lund University are curious about start-ups and innovation. To offer more people the opportunity to test idea development, VentureLab by Lund University organises an annual Lund Innovation Challenge. During the weekend of 19–21 November, around 100 students from all over the University took part in the 48-hour competition for ideas on the theme of the ‟Future of Education”. They w

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The first discussion forum is starting. The first discussion forum will be an open forum with a no-preset theme. The starting point for the profile areas is research, but the aim is for complete profile areas to be formed during the process. They are to be intertwined knowledge environments involving strong research, education and external engagement. A key aspect is doing something different and

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At the end of October, Lund University’s quality assurance of study programmes was approved by the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ). I think that Lund University should be happy and proud about this, but it is important to keep moving forward to continue developing our quality assurance systems. The next major area we need to work on is quality assurance of research. In November, the vice-

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During its away day, the central administration’s management group (consisting of the heads of the faculty offices and the heads of division in the central administration) discussed the administration’s development areas – both what has been done so far and what remains to be developed. The central administration’s plan of operations highlights the following development areas for 2020 – 2022. To d

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/developing-central-administrations-support-and-work - 2025-08-29

The new University-wide Council for educational development has now had its first meeting. The introduction of the council was decided by the vice-chancellor at the end of May this year and, since then, the faculties have worked to appoint members. The council, which I chair, includes Anders Sonesson, director of the Division for Higher Education Development (AHU) and a member from each faculty as

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/teaching-career-paths-agenda-new-university-wide-council-educational-development - 2025-08-29

The Swedish Research Council has introduced a new distinguished professorship programme and the researchers Charlotte Ling and Malin Parmar have been awarded grants of SEK 50 million each over 10 years. The aim of the distinguished professor grants programme is to create the conditions for the most outstanding researchers to conduct long-term, innovative research with great potential to achieve sc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/distinguished-professor-grants-two-researchers-lund-university - 2025-08-29

The administrative prize is awarded annually for excellent administrative initiatives of an innovative nature that have contributed to the University’s development or for exceptional service and efficiency. The recipients of the 2022 prize are Magnus Svensson, head of division at the Faculty of Law and Sahar Valizadeh, project manager for Project/Devops (LDC). They will each receive SEK 15 000 for

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Academic freedom is a fundamental prerequisite for our activities. It is also an area that engages many employees. We could be better at highlighting ongoing work but also at allowing more scope to discuss and draw attention to issues concerning academic freedom. During the autumn, the Ethics Advisory Board was given a new remit and has been renamed the Council for Ethics and Academic Freedom. Las

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/increased-focus-academic-freedom - 2025-08-29

Stefanos Athanasopoulos, Samuel Staines and Emanuel Larsson collaborated on the project to develop future beamlines at the ESS research facility. Photo: Noomi Egan Using a torch, a camera, a water bottle and pieces of Lego, Emanuel Larsson built a scanner now used as a prototype to develop future beamlines at ESS. It was late on a Friday evening in December three years ago that Emanuel Larsson, a

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Andreas Bergh, Louise Bringselius, Niklas Altermark and Cecilia Cassinger. You have to respect the fact that collaboration takes time and is not always so easy to achieve, according to Louise Bringselius, who recently started the Institute for Public Affairs together with researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management. During her years as a research lead

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-tool-researchers-take-part-public-debate - 2025-08-29

Jonas Borell. What happens if there is a power cut and the heating stops working for a long period of time? Besides the obvious consequences – that technology doesn’t work and it gets cold – how do we, as a society, prepare for such a crisis? Do we know who is supposed to do what when it happens? And who gets to decide on the crisis plans? There are many different unexpected and sudden events that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyone-must-be-included-crisis-planning - 2025-08-29

Erik Wengström wishes faculties would have a source of money that could be readily available for certain research. Photo: Håkan Röjder Covid-19 turned parts of the ordinary research process upside down. Economist Erik Wengström is among those who have studied Swedes’ behaviour during the pandemic from the centre of events. But the current funding system risks putting a spanner in the works. His wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-speedy-action-finance-highly-topical-research - 2025-08-29

LU can apply for grants for five profile areas as the government reallocate 500 million SEK from direct government funding. Photo: Kennet Ruona ‟Profiling is an opportunity to gather our strengths and renew our research, increase its societal impact and improve the intertwining of cutting-edge research and education.” So says Per Mickwitz, who hopes to receive many registrations of interest in the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-prioritize-profiling - 2025-08-29

Evelina Lindén is free of her cancer. She no longer needs a turban. “As though I was driving a fast car but had enough margin to turn before hitting the rock wall.” That is how Evelina Lindén describes her experience of having a cancer tumour that was aggressive but treatable. By being open about her illness and sharing images showing how she was feeling on Facebook, she was able to keep the conve

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Once again, we are now seeing an increase in the spread of infection, in particular in Europe; this week, the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced new recommendations to avoid crowding, among other things. We are still offering on-campus education but everyone is to avoid crowding and large gatherings. We are carefully monitoring the situation and trying to keep the organisation updated on any

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/solving-problem-vaccination-certificates-international-researchers-and-students - 2025-08-29

From the left: Hakim Abdi, Louise Bringselius and Magnus Genrup. Welcome to a digital meeting in which Lund researchers who are active on social media will share their insights and tips. For many researchers, social media is an opportunity to interact with wider society, from colleagues in the research community and other experts to politicians, journalists and decision-makers. However, approaches

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-social-media-share-their-tips - 2025-08-29

The research team from LTH and Tetra Pak - Mathias Wallin, Sara Johansson and Johan Tryding. Photo: Kennet Ruona There are many requirements on the food packaging of the future. They must be better and safer than today, while also environment-friendly, cost-effective, and aesthetically pleasing. In the product development race, Tetra Pak has teamed up with the Faculty of Engineering in Lund – LTH.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-better-packaging - 2025-08-29