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The Administrative Prize is awarded annually for outstanding administrative efforts of an innovative nature that have contributed to the University’s development, or for extraordinary service and efficiency. The recipients of the 2021 prize are Rikard Stymne at the IT unit of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology and project managers Jennie Paldanius and Maria Hedberg at LDC/AHU (Division for H

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recipients-universitys-administrative-prize-2021 - 2025-10-05

The University Board has appointed Lena Eskilsson as deputy vice-chancellor of Lund University 2021-2026. Eskilsson is a senior lecturer in human geography and has many years’ experience in education and leadership issues at Lund University. Since 2018, she has been the pro dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. “It is an incredible honour to be entrusted with this role by the Electoral College a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lena-eskilsson-new-deputy-vice-chancellor - 2025-10-05

In 2016, a forgotten archival treasure was found in the cellar of the Department of Geology. The material included a unique map of Iceland from 1844 and a geological map of the whole of New Zealand dated 1869. Now 322 works have been restored and plans are afoot for an exhibition. Through arched windows, a pale November light faintly illuminates the Hansen conference room on the fourth floor of th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-treasure-trove-maps-restored-its-former-glory - 2025-10-05

Former doctoral student Firas Jumaah and supervisor Charlotta Turner have had a special bond since 2014, when Jumaah and his family got caught up in the first ISIS lightning offensive in Iraq.  Employing far-reaching means, Charlotta Turner managed to get them back to Lund unharmed. Now they have written a book together about the rescue. The new authors expectantly open a large cardboard box full

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2025-10-05

Eva Nordmark was 62 when she received her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. But rather than life ending, it gave her the chance to reclaim parts of her life that she had not previously had time for. It is a sunny autumn day at the Humlamaden rehab centre outside Veberöd, and the stable is full of life and activity. The 32-year-old Shetland pony Brossan is sauntering around the yard doing whatever takes his f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/when-memory-fails - 2025-10-05

She is a chemist. He is a medic. Together they are behind some of the major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease research in recent times. Sara Linse and Oskar Hansson hope to be able to lay the foundations for the medicines and diagnostic methods of the future. It is one of those unusually clear mornings in late November, when the sun is not having to battle through layers of steel-grey cloud. Wa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-duo-want-solve-mystery-alzheimers - 2025-10-05

By 2023 the University is to have reduced its CO2 emissions by half, according to the new sustainability plan. Things look promising right now due to Covid-19 – there will be a radical reduction this year as air travel is the biggest CO2 villain. The number of flights booked between April and October 2020 fell by 97 percent compared with 2019. Based on average emissions of previous travel, this me

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-new-plan-co2-emissions-be-halved-2023 - 2025-10-05

Torbjörn von Schantz finds that he has made good progress on the road to a united University. In his management group, he now sees more of a shared assumption of responsibility and less of a silo mentality and special interests. What he has missed most during his years as vice-chancellor is proximity to the rest of the organisation. "I like talking to people", he says. After forty years in academi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/outgoing-vice-chancellor-satisfied-see-more-people-taking-collective-responsibility - 2025-10-05

It is not only the central University management team that is changing. Several faculties will also be getting new management. Here is a list of the new faculty leaders for the forthcoming period. Find out who is to be dean and pro dean for each faculty as of the new year. Faculty of Engineering Annika Olsson becomes new Dean. Heiner Linke becomes new Deputy Dean. Faculty of Fine and Performing Ar

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-faculty-management-teams - 2025-10-05

As of the new year, a new University management team will take over the helm. For the next term of office, 2021-2026, the University will be led by vice-chancellor Erik Renström and deputy vice-chancellor Lena Eskilsson, together with five pro vice-chancellors and the University director. “The choice of pro vice-chancellors was based on identifying skilled academic leaders with a passion for their

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-university-management-2021-2026 - 2025-10-05

During the autumn of 2019, an analysis was conducted of how the faculties and the University's IT functions currently manage incidents and events that threaten our information security. Preparatory analyses, training, activities and a management dialogue have been ongoing since 2019 in the field of information security. The University is affected on a daily basis by events that negatively affect o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/information-security-incidents-and-events - 2025-10-05

The Government has now presented the Research and Innovation Bill for this mandate period, which indicates the way forward for Swedish research policy. The Government's starting point is that free research must be safeguarded while the research policy must respond to global and national societal challenges. In the bill, the Government presents the research policy for 2021–2024. The policy is based

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/governments-new-research-bill - 2025-10-05

When Lund University switched to digital teaching there were many challenges both for the teaching staff and students. How exams and assessment were to be conducted now that the students were not on-site was an important question and a very difficult challenge. The existing tools for digital on-campus exams were tested for online exams. Inspera, a digital tool that some of the teaching staff and a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-exams-campus-and-remote-solutions - 2025-10-05

Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on solid evidence”, he says. A lot of the criticism against vaccines occurs on social

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2025-10-05

Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologist and media studies researcher Mia-Marie Hammarlin, who is in the early phase of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2025-10-05

The number of managers at the University who have consulted the Occupational Health Service for preventive purposes has risen during the pandemic. "It is easy to feel that you are losing control when things change quickly and you don't know exactly how your employees are coping at home", says Anne Link, head of the Occupational Health Service. Anne Link and psychologist Linda Kuhn at the Occupatio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2025-10-05

Ceremonies have a certain power that speaks more to the emotions than to the intellect. This is the opinion of the newly inaugurated vice-chancellor Erik Renström, who sees the value in academic traditions. In his management team, however, new winds are blowing, bringing with them the values of “integrity” and “character” and a pro vice-chancellor who is specially tasked with working on these aspe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integrity-and-character - 2025-10-05

LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways of keeping active. "I work out in the laundry room" Dragana Trivic, head of comm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2025-10-05

Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed by the start of the new year. There are five such panels divided into recruitment, leadership and organisation, infrastructure, major an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2025-10-05

Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was marked by luck, opportunity and fantastic people. Luck is a concept that researchers don’t use very often, but Johannes Rousk does. For him, it is not about finding the answer to the holy grail through divine intervention, which in the w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2025-10-05