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Lund University achieved a greater impact in the media last year compared to the year before, even when excluding the Nobel Prize coverage. However, as expected, the Nobel prize accounted for most media attention relating to the University in 2023. These are among the findings of a new analysis of the University’s media impact.Lund University was the most visible higher education institution in Sw

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-achieves-considerable-impact-swedish-media - 2025-09-30

The Vice-Chancellor has approved a revised version of the students’ List of Rights, which will begin to apply as of the autumn semester 2024. The revisions have been made in order to align with updates to rules and regulations, teaching hours, examination procedures etc. List of Rights – Lund University Students’ Rights and Responsibilities was introduced in 2013 as support for students, departmen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/revision-list-rights-students-rights-and-responsibilities - 2025-09-30

The Central Administration must reduce its costs by SEK 20 million. The University Management therefore plans to reduce university-wide support for commissioned education. This is one of several measures to balance the Central Administration’s finances. The proposal that has now been presented entails that university-wide support will be reduced to cover a smaller node with two to three full-time

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reduced-university-wide-support-commissioned-education - 2025-09-30

Solar cells of the future, the optimal solution for a global carbon tax or a policy that creates peace? Ideas from Lund University could be important pieces of the puzzle in the transition to a sustainable society. The 'Sustainable Idea Exploration' call is an opportunity for researchers at Lund University to explore the innovative potential of their research and finance activities outside the sco

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-idea-exploration-call-opens-soon - 2025-09-30

A new structure for research infrastructure has been drawn up to ensure more secure long-term funding of university-wide research infrastructures, university platforms (core facilities). They are originated from the RQ20 report with the aim of make investments more long term, organise funding and facilitate strategic prioritisation. University platforms are defined as strategically important resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-structure-and-increased-funding-research-infrastructure - 2025-09-30

After 15 years, hundreds of meetings, conferences, opinion pieces, interviews and trips to Stockholm, it happened – the Government adopted the Housing First model as a national strategy for tackling homelessness. “We are very proud. We have just finished an information guide that the National Board of Health and Welfare will distribute to Sweden’s social workers,” Marcus Knutagård tells LUM when w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finally-housing-first-model-adopted-national-strategy - 2025-09-30

Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art – will present a solo exhibition by Fredrik Strid in the spring and summer of 2024. The starting point for the exhibition Making Nature is the process-based sculpture project Alla fåglar i Sverige (All Birds of Sweden). Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art – will present a solo exhibition by Fredrik Strid in the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunch-showing-exhibition-making-nature-fredrik-strid - 2025-09-30

The internal combustion engine is a subject that has been described as nasty and outdated. In fact, it is not outdated at all – but an area of cutting-edge research that is an important part of a sustainable energy transition. Martin Tunér is a professor of Internal Combustion Engines at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and he explains that a functioning and egalitarian society needs transport, so

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/internal-combustion-engine-will-remain-important - 2025-09-30

Meret-Neith was perhaps the first female ruler of ancient Egypt and one of the most powerful women in the world during her lifetime some 5,000 years ago. Researcher Amber Hood is part of an international research team investigating the royal tomb in the desert outside Abydos. When LUM spoke to Amber Hood, a researcher at the Department of Geology, she was making final preparations for this year’s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/exploring-tomb-wine-loving-queen - 2025-09-30

International text theft is difficult to deal with, especially for individual researchers. The University should take the lead, and find out how plagiarism issues are dealt with in different countries and what authorities exist there. So says Haro de Grauw, the doctoral student ombudsman. “The University could have such a resource, and gather knowledge on how such issues are handled in different c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-knowledge-needed-about-plagiarism - 2025-09-30

Linguist Sara Farshchi's research was plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers who published it as their own. Five months have passed since Professor Carita Paradis discovered that parts of her former doctoral student Sara Farshchi's five-year-old thesis had been plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers and that the plagiarism had been published by international publishers Springer, among othe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-was-plagiarised - 2025-09-30

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” says Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at the School of Economic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2025-09-30

Lund University’s researchers are good at applying for and obtaining external research grants. But many funding bodies require faculties and departments to co-fund research projects, something that is becoming a major financial challenge for the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and others. “Of course there is a limit to what we can do,” says Magnus Genrup, head of the Department of Energy Sciences. Re

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/co-funding-increasingly-difficult-challenge - 2025-09-30

During the spring - April and May - a lot of exciting things are happening in research communication for researchers! There are several opportunities for you as a researcher to learn more about how to communicate your research. Pitch your idea to the Conversation – April session Researchers get exclusive time with an editor to discuss their article proposal. Each meeting is 20 minutes long. When?

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/curious-about-conversation - 2025-09-30

Lund Nano Lab at LTH, Lund University, had a prominent visit from Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and his entourage. They got to talk about #semiconductors, #nanoscience, #nanotechnology, and the importance of keeping the competence growing, academia, and industry hand in hand. “This shows that semiconductors and chips are high on the agenda, also in Sweden, and it felt like the prime minister was

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/competence-best-vaccine-against-crisis - 2025-09-30

The University’s general presentation material is updated with new profile texts, PowerPoint presentations and new facts and figures, to use as a basis for speaking about the University, for example at a conference or during a study visit. The following material is updated with new facts and figures:Profile texts about the University, in three lenghtsPowerPoint templatesWeb pages The University at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-presentation-material-about-university-available - 2025-09-30

Do you lack the time or knowledge to explore the commercial potential on your own? You don’t have to do it alone. That’s where LU Business Track comes in.  LU Business Track is a tailored programme where we pair you with a dedicated project team and financial support to assess and develop the commercial viability of your research — together. Read more and apply before May 15: LU Business Track | L

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-you-have-research-findings-could-make-difference-apply-lu-business-track - 2025-09-30

The Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) has produced three reports that highlight key issues it regards as threats to the activities of higher education institutions. A fourth report on governance in higher education will be published after the summer. The other reports concern academic freedom, increased bureaucratisation and the reliance of research on external funding. T

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-reports-threats-academic-freedom-and-university-governance - 2025-09-30

As a staff member, it is important that you report adverse occurrences. This could be accidents or incidents connected to the physical environment or threats and victimisation that affect the psychosocial work environment. As a staff member, it is important that you report adverse occurrences. This could be accidents or incidents connected to the physical environment or threats and victimisation t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/remember-report-occurrences - 2025-09-30

We warmly invite innovation stakeholders and actors, business leaders, council and university representatives, and Future by Lund members to the seventh afternoon talk, this time about Lund Innovation District and the innovation politics that effects the way it is organised, governed, and financed. Lund Innovation District is a global innovation ecosystem that brings together world-class research,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/afternoon-talk-about-new-conditions-developing-lund-innovation-district - 2025-09-30