A new semester, a new academic year – and the Education Board is continuing its work on education in transition and international impact. In line with this, the Board will devote a lot of time during the autumn to quality assurance and enhancement issues and a revised Education Strategy. An important springboard for the Board’s work was the study visit to Brussels, funded by Erasmus+, that board m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-semester-and-development-our-education-continues - 2025-08-28

Lund University works actively for gender equality and equal opportunities, and this is something we would like to highlight on our webpages and in our brochures, reports etc. We are therefore looking for those of you who would like to appear in images to represent that diversity. The University’s Image and Media Bank has many images, but more are needed to illustrate the diversity that exists amo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/would-you-help-represent-lus-diversity - 2025-08-28

Three sets of lockers will be put in place in September for storing and charging e-bike batteries. The lockers will be located outside the E Building (ready to use), A Building and Kemicentrum and can be used by staff and students. The three sets of lockers now being put in place on the LTH campus in a collaboration between LU Estates, LTH and Akademiska Hus will be evaluated at the end of the aut

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lth-pilots-lockers-e-bike-battery-storage - 2025-08-28

As from 2024, Lund University has introduced 30 November as the last date to apply for health promotion reimbursement. This is because the Swedish Tax Agency regulations stipulate that reimbursement as a general rule is to be paid in the same year as the application is submitted. Your application case in Primula needs to be fully completed by 30 November. You therefore need to register the case in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-health-promotion-reimbursement-30-november - 2025-08-28

For those qualified for the award, registration opens on 1 February 2025. You can find the registration link and more information about the award on the page Working at Lund University:Working at Lund University | Staff Pages

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/next-award-ceremony-long-and-devoted-public-service-will-be-held-autumn-2025 - 2025-08-28

This year’s salary review date is 1 October. This is the date on which your new salary will apply and from which your new salary will be paid retroactively when the University pays the new salaries. According to the timetable drawn up by the University, which has been presented to the employee organisations, it is estimated that the new salaries will be paid out in February 2025. The next activity

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/salary-review-starts-soon - 2025-08-28

The University offers a broad range of activities that in one way or another contribute to career development for academic staff, either within or outside academia. The page below has now been updated to include new seminars and workshops.  Career development for academic staff | Staff Pages (lu.se)

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/autumn-seminars-and-workshops-academic-staff - 2025-08-28

The Crafoord Science Lunches are a series of lectures that highlight research that has received grants from the Crafoord Foundation. The Science Lunches are a collaboration between Lund University, the Crafoord Foundation and Lund City Library Science Lunches 2024Citizens’ changing attitudes towards democracyWednesday 23 OctoberAgustín Goenaga, Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Sc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crafoord-science-lunches - 2025-08-28

On 15 April this year, digital degree certificates were introduced at the University and a considerable improvement has already been noted. It has become faster, more secure and more efficient, which has meant a reduced workload for many staff members and shorter waiting times for students. Up to and including 15 April, all degree certificates were sent out in a printed version and there was only

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-degree-certificates-save-time - 2025-08-28

The University has started a new initiative that involves inviting its new staff from far and wide to joint activities during the year. New international staff members and their families were recently welcomed to the new academic year at an event in the Main University Building. Specially invited staff members enjoyed a get-together and refreshments with music by Albin Rickman’s Trio and students

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-international-staff-members-were-welcomed-new-academic-year - 2025-08-28

The Institute announces yearly calls for application to Themes and Advanced Study Groups. Researchers/teaching staff (with PhD or equiv.) employed by Lund University are now invited to apply for Themes and Advanced Study Groups, starting in 2025. The Pufendorf IAS stimulates interdisciplinary research within Lund University. The Institute supports researchers working together across disciplinary b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-applications-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies - 2025-08-28

Your research deserves to be communicated clearly, efficiently, and correctly. Otherwise, it’s unlikely to be published, and if published, unlikely to be read, and if read, unlikely to be fully understood. To help you develop your academic English, the English Unit at the Centre for Language and Literature can again offer the popular course in “Written English for Scholarly Publication” (WESP).The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/written-english-scholarly-publication-0 - 2025-08-28

Are you a teacher at Lund University and looking to further develop your teaching skills? The application for the spring courses in higher education pedagogy is now open. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2024. The courses are offered by the Department of Higher Education Development and are suitable for those who teach at Lund University and wish to obtain a permanent teaching position

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-ahus-higher-education-teaching-and-learning-courses-spring-2025 - 2025-08-28

LU Innovation is now integrating its student activities to strengthen its innovation support. This change means that all student activities previously organised under the "VentureLab" brand are now integrated into the main organisation LU Innovation. "This is an important step to offer clearer and more cohesive support to students and researchers at Lund University," says Niclas Nilsson, Director

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-innovation-integrates-innovation-support-and-venturelab-incubator-moves-x-lab - 2025-08-28

You are welcome to celebrate Culture Night with us! Browse among all our activities for all ages that run from the morning to late evening. On the programme are music, try-out activities, theatre, art exhibitions and much more. Faculty of Medicine at Forum MedicumThis year we are holding an open house at Forum Medicum where we arrange exciting stations, lectures and try-out activities on the theme

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/culture-night-21-september-2024 - 2025-08-28

Illustration: Axel Brechensbauer One of the biggest perks of teaching at university? Supervising students and seeing them grow into their role. That is at least according to senior lecturers Olof Hallonsten and Anna Jonsson. Detectives with magnifying glasses and catching and preparing a fish. Those are two of the metaphors that Anna Jonsson and Olof Hallonsten use to explain the relationship betw

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/comic-strips-and-metaphors-help-students-reflect - 2025-08-28

Photo: Unsplash At LU Innovation, anyone who wants to utilise and translate their research into a product or service can get help with things like funding, advice, development and marketing completely free of charge. Niclas Nilsson, head of office at LU Innovation, hopes that more researchers will discover the service. Ultrasound diagnosis, the first respirator, oat milk, Bluetooth and gene therap

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/helping-researchers-who-want-start-companies-and-develop-innovations - 2025-08-28

The core samples of millennia-old ice bear witness of severe solar storms long ago. Photo: Raimund Muscheler Contained within Greenland’s millennia-old ice are the traces of gigantic solar storms. Geology professor Raimund Muscheler is now undertaking a major initiative to chart the storms back through time, to improve our knowledge of potentially dangerous solar flares. Our sun is currently in an

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ice-stone-age-might-reveal-future-solar-storms - 2025-08-28

Shared reading is a reading circle with reading aloud taking place in groups. Photo: Johnny Mcclung/Unsplash Professors of literature Torbjörn Forslid and Anders Ohlsson helped bring the concept of shared reading to Sweden. They have now received funding from LU Innovation to develop and adapt it for use in upper-secondary schools. Shared reading is originally a British concept, which essentially

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/received-help-improve-experience-reading - 2025-08-28

Together with two colleagues, Petter Pilesjö has tool that can help stakeholders in society when flooding occurs. Photo: Johan Joelsson Scientific researchers are not usually known for their entrepreneurship. However, at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, there is an innovative group of experts who have developed a tool that can help stakeholders in society when flooding o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scientists-new-flood-analysis-product-goes-against-flow - 2025-08-28