By Charlotte [dot] Hedin [at] hr [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Hedin) - published 30 November 2021 A digital case management system for university-wide staff/HR matters has been launched. The aim is to develop HR support to the organisational units, and HR information on the Staff Pages and in newsletters. Most of the HR Division´s dedicated email addresses have been replaced by new information in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/case-management-system-university-wide-hr-matters - 2025-07-05

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 24 November 2021 The Vice-Chancellor have decided that Lund University will begin work on profiling and guidelines for the work. On 22 November, Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz has decided on the process for this work in accordance with the principles decided by the Vice-Chancellor. The process is described in the manageme

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/invitation-notify-interest-becoming-profile-area-and-next-meeting-scheduled-3-december - 2025-07-05

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 21 November 2021 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 proce

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/follow-process-identifying-profile-areas-new-blog - 2025-07-05

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 21 November 2021 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 developm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forthcoming-call-applications-projects-focusing-agenda-2030 - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 20 November 2021 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 pra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/blended-learning-practice - 2025-07-05

By louise [dot] ogland [at] venturelab [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Ögland) - published 1 December 2021 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 Univer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/100-students-participated-innovation-challange - 2025-07-05

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 6 December 2021 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

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/first-discussion-forums-about-profile-areas-14-december - 2025-07-05

Published 7 December 2021 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 resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-project-development-quality-assurance-systems-research - 2025-07-05

Published 7 December 2021 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 a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/developing-central-administrations-support-and-work - 2025-07-05

Published 7 December 2021 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 m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/teaching-career-paths-agenda-new-university-wide-council-educational-development - 2025-07-05

Published 7 December 2021 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 gre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/distinguished-professor-grants-two-researchers-lund-university - 2025-07-05

Published 6 December 2021 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 e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recipients-2022-administrative-prize - 2025-07-05

Published 7 December 2021 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

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/increased-focus-academic-freedom - 2025-07-05

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 9 December 2021 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 E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/home-built-scanner-helps-construct-beamline-ess - 2025-07-05

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 9 December 2021 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 th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-tool-researchers-take-part-public-debate - 2025-07-05

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 9 December 2021 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

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyone-must-be-included-crisis-planning - 2025-07-05

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 9 December 2021 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 t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-speedy-action-finance-highly-topical-research - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 9 December 2021 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 resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-prioritize-profiling - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 9 December 2021 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 he

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-cancer-found-its-place-facebook - 2025-07-05

Published 9 December 2021 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 o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/solving-problem-vaccination-certificates-international-researchers-and-students - 2025-07-05