Matthew Tompkins, postdoctoral fellow in Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, won the national Forskar Grand Prix competition 2022. Do you want to be better at summing up what is important about your research and receive help and support to present your results? If so, perhaps you would like to take part in this year’s Researchers’ Grand Prix. It is a competition in which you present your

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/improve-your-research-presentation-and-participate-years-researchers-grand-prix-3 - 2025-08-24

The research infrastructure Huminfra, led by Lund University Humanities Lab and financed by the Swedish Research Council, is now taking physical form through the web-based information platform huminfra.se. The web platform compiles and links to existing digital/e-scientific data sets, tools, expertise and educational opportunities spread across Sweden – resources that the individual researcher pre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-web-platform-enables-easier-access-research-methods-digital-and-experimental-humanities - 2025-08-24

Despite not being part of the winning team in the EU’s enormous culture and innovation push, Lund University regards itself as a clear winner. The preparatory work on the application acted like a beacon and all the faculties joined in to work together and find interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration projects. That engagement now continues. “We have unique values within art and culture, whic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rallied-competition-lu-continue-investment-creatives - 2025-08-24

Do you feel subjected to harassment or victimisation? Do you wonder what you are to do in this situation or what the manager can do? Do you want to know more about the investigation process? Do you want to know the difference between harassment and other forms of discrimination? You can find the answers to these questions on the newly updated Victimisation and harassment page on the Staff Pages, u

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-information-about-what-you-can-do-if-you-are-subjected-victimisation-and-harassment - 2025-08-24

The local negotiations with the employee organisations OFR and Seko have been completed, as has the processing of salary-setting appraisals for Saco-S members and non-members of employee organisations, and the new salaries will be paid retroactively from 1 October 2022, in February. Possibility of compensation Employees who have been on leave with parental benefit or sickness benefit during the sa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/payment-new-salaries-february - 2025-08-24

I believe that a common vision, clear and explicit core values and systematic work on the priority issues can better enable the researchers at the University to conduct research of the highest international quality that helps people to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. The Research Board has drawn up a new Research Strategy for 2023-26, which has now been approved

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-strategy-will-research-be-better-now - 2025-08-24

At the start of 2018 – as a reaction to the MeToo movement – the University decided to implement the Tellus project in order to strengthen the prevention of sexual harassment. Professor Anette Agardh was selected as the project leader. Almost five years have passed and what has happened since then? The first report of the Tellus project stated, among other things, that we needed to gather and incr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/continued-work-against-sexual-harassment - 2025-08-24

A new research strategy is now in place, effective from 1 January. It is based on the Strategic Plan and the findings of the RQ20 project. The Strategy will guide the University’s research and describe the core values of research and the conditions necessary for achieving world-class research excellence. The Research Strategy has been developed by the Research Board and has been discussed by all f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/universitys-new-research-strategy-2023-2026 - 2025-08-24

From 1 February, all travel bookings are to be made through BCD Travel, replacing the old agreement with Egencia. You will find everything you need to know on How to book a trip | Staff Pages (lu.se). This includes how to book using the new booking system and which contacts apply. You can also find out how to access your Egencia bookings during the transition period until the end of February. Trai

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/1-february-we-change-travel-agency - 2025-08-24

Do you ever wonder where the University gets its money and how it is spent? Or do you find it unclear how the University is organised and who decides what? Then watch these two information videos which have been made to answer these very questions. How decisions are made at LU This is how decisions are made at Lund University – Assistant University Director Karin Ekborg-Persson talk about the Univ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-information-videos-about-universitys-organisation-and-resource-allocation - 2025-08-24

The EU Commission has presented the New European Innovation Agenda designed to strengthen European competitiveness through the green and digital transitions. At Lund University, we are well placed to take advantage of this and to raise our ambitions in deep tech innovation and solving today’s societal challenges. The EU Commission’s Agenda will involve many financial investments in innovation. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eus-innovation-agenda-applies-us-too - 2025-08-24

The Vice-Chancellor has now decided on a revised Sustainability Plan for 2023-2026. The revised plan contains concrete measures with a high level of ambition. It is hoped that the revised plan will help the University achieve the ambitious goals set out in the 2019 Sustainability Strategy. The work on the revision has involved many bodies across the University: the Education Board, Research Board,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-will-work-broadly-sustainability-coming-years - 2025-08-24

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 - 2025-08-24

The Vice-Chancellor has decided that, by the middle of 2023 at the latest, all organisations within Lund University are to report incidents and occupational injuries digitally in the IA system. The following organisations already use the IA system for reporting incidents and occupational injuries: Central administration Faculty of Law Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts MAX IV Faculty of Medicine

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-system-reporting-incidents-and-occupational-injuries - 2025-08-24

Lund University administers a range of awards, some well-known and well-used, others more obscure. In order to bring greater clarity to this broad flora, the Vice-Chancellor has now decided to set up an Awards Council and undertake a review of which awards should exist. The decision is in line with the Government’s reform of the public reward system for Sweden’s top awards (in Swedish). Vice-Chanc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-awards-council-established-and-review-carried-out - 2025-08-24

As of 1 March 2023, you should report suspected disciplinary cases against students via a form on the Staff Pages, instead of emailing the report to the Legal Division. This is to make the handling of disciplinary matters easier and quicker. The form gives clear information about what needs to be included in a report. When the formula is sent in, a case is automatically created in W3D3. More infor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-method-reporting-disciplinary-matters - 2025-08-24

Take part and run the Lundaloppet together with your colleagues. As usual, Lund University will pay the registration fee on behalf of employees. Lundaloppet is Skåne’s biggest race where people of all ages gather to run or walk. Choose if you would like to run 5 kilometres or 10. “It is great that so many LU employees choose to take part, and we are hoping to break a record this year,” says Univer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/run-lundaloppet-6-may - 2025-08-24

Every year, university-wide funding for research infrastructure is announced. The minimum amount that can be awarded is SEK 250,000 per year and the maximum amount is SEK 10 million. The infrastructure can receive funding for a maximum of 5 years. Interdisciplinary research environments of particular strategic significance for the University are the focus. If these environments are also linked to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-funding-research-infrastructure-1-march - 2025-08-24

After nearly two years of working at home, we were able to return to the office in spring 2022. In the autumn of 2021, the Vice-Chancellor decided on new guidelines for remote working in preparation for our return. For technical and administrative staff this meant whole new possibilities to work partly from home that were not there before the pandemic. This was part of the subject of the Future of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/remote-working-technical-and-administrative-staff-what-was-outcome - 2025-08-24

A village in Tanzania. Researchers use photos such as this to measure the degree of poverty. The same villages have also been measured using artificial intelligence. Photo: Google Poverty reduction globally is one of the UN’s primary goals. But how can wealth and economic development be measured in a smart way? Artificial intelligence, AI, and satellite photos are able to give more effective and p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-poverty-ai-and-satellite-photos - 2025-08-24