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Teaching is to be as highly valued as research when it comes to appointments and promotions. Despite this ambition, it has rarely worked that way in practice. A recently completed project provides a new framework which will help faculty managements, as well as individual teaching staff members, to evaluate and develop educational qualifications. In the ‘Pedagogisk Meritering’ project, which concer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-initiative-raise-status-teaching - 2025-12-10

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the recommendations below so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Enter your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleagues can easily fin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-your-summer-vacation - 2025-12-10

Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which has harvested immense humanitarian suffering on both sides. And it must happen quickly, according to Peace and conflict researcher Lisa Strömbom. The UN warns of full-scale war if the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas continues to escalate. Hundreds, many of them children, have been killed in the attack

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2025-12-09

Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which  has harvested immense humanitarian suffering on both sides. And it must happen quickly, according to Peace and conflict researcher Lisa Strömbom. The UN warns of full-scale war if the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas continues to escalate. Hundreds, many of them children, have been killed in the attac

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2025-12-09

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-phd-thesis-meanings-people-turkish-politics-genealogy - 2025-12-09

Lund University has climbed to first place in the world in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026. The ranking includes around 2,000 higher education institutions from about 100 countries and measures how universities contribute to a sustainable future – through research, education, and the way they operate as organisations. “Humble, proud, and inspired to continue moving forward –

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-best-world-sustainability - 2025-12-10

The book "Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War" edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass was recently published. The paperback is now available from Hurst in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. Even though Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-book-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-12-09

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-two-ssrc-fellowships - 2025-12-09

An innovative project has received support from the Swedish Institute under its “support for cooperation with academics from Turkey” scheme. “Turkey Beyond Borders: Critical Voices, New Perspectives” aims to foster collaboration between academics in Sweden and scholars from Turkey whose academic freedoms are implicitly or explicitly curtailed and violated. The website is now launched, with 2 vodca

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seminar-and-vodcast-series-draws-attention-infringements-academic-freedom-turkey-and-provides-forum - 2025-12-09

REAL (Centre for Retail and Logistics) is a research center at Lund University and a long-term initiative aimed at establishing a strong, interdisciplinary, and dynamic environment. Its goal is to generate relevant knowledge and expertise of strategic importance for the future of sustainable retail and logistics. “Through collaboration in education, research, and innovation, we aim to redefine the

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/one-year-real - 2025-12-09

Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the IIIEE at Lund University in collaboration with researchers at Linköping University are launching a new project called Massive Urban Missions (MUM) on advancing and delivering climate neutral cities. Associate Professor Kes McCormick and Professor Jenny Palm are the researchers at the IIIEE leading the activities. Two doctoral researchers will be appointed a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-launches-new-project-massive-urban-missions - 2025-12-09

The placement of the position is to be divided between the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and the Division of Human Rights. The candidate needs to have written a Ph.D. thesis with a focus on some aspect of Human Rights in East and South-East Asia. Very good and documented knowledge of English is required as well as relevant knowledge in an Asian language, depending on the research pr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-two-year-appointment-postdoc-human-rights-east-and-south-east-asia - 2025-12-09

The annual SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award is granted Dianne Kok for her Master thesis on household energy transition in metropolitan and rural Nepal. Since 2022, SASNET annualy grants a Lund University student the Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences. The thesis must have been submitted and defended by a student at Lund U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/dianne-kok-granted-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20232024 - 2025-12-09

Researchers at IIIEE have been running the capacity development program Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-Based Solutions for five consecutive years. The SI-funded program has come to an end, but its legacy thrives in various ways. The program has engaged public administration professionals in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, focusing on nature-based solutions (NBS) to me

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/successful-capacity-building-nature-based-transformation-cities - 2025-12-10

Roger Hildingsson defended his dissertation "Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change" yesterday in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Roger HildingssonDiscussant: Professor James Meadowcroft.AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. Th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingsson-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-10

Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. This new politics concerns transformative

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2025-12-10

The total sick leave among government employees increased to 4.1 per cent last year, reports the ST trade union’s magazine, Publikt*. Lund University has the lowest sick leave among the ten largest government employers with 2.6 per cent. “It’s naturally very pleasing to see that our sick leave is low compared with other large public authorities. However, we know that generally higher education ins

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-comparison-shows-lund-university-has-lowest-sick-leave - 2025-12-10

Sarah Anne Rennick has co-authored the paper "National Ambition, Divergent Vision: Consensus and Fracture Among Iraqi Youth Activists of the Tishreen Movement" together with Adel Bakawan. Since October 2019, Iraq has been witnessing a mass protest movement, heavily though not exclusively centered in Baghdad and the country’s southern provinces and largely led by youth. This new uprising, referred

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/consensus-and-fracture-among-iraqi-youth-activists - 2025-12-10

Lund University continues its climb towards the top of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at universities around the world. The University is now ranked 3rd in the world out of approximately 1,750 ranked universities. This places the University second in Europe, and number one in Sweden. QS World University Rankings: Sustainability is a framework

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking - 2025-12-10

Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barinaga, professor of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Manag

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-12-10