On January 18th the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) organized an information and discussion meeting about the profile areas. The general sentiment was that the new task provided surprisingly little direction for how the financing of the profile areas should be developed. On January 13th the Swedish government (U2022/00168) gave the Swedish Research Council and the other

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-level-funding-profile-areas-has-moved-forward - 2025-09-07

The palm house in the Botanical Garden is to be renovated and the environment improved for both staff and visitors. Production is planned for 2024 and expected to take just over a year. The project was initiated by the University and the Botanical Garden because the cycads and other plants in the palm house require more space while the glass and technical systems in the building need reviewing and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/palm-house-botanical-garden-be-remodelled - 2025-09-07

Updated website helps students to manage technology and learning in the new normal. The updated website campusonline.lu.se gathers information for students about the digital tools they are expected to use at Lund University – such as Canvas, Zoom and Inspera – but also concrete tips on study technique for more or less digital studies. The website now has clearer navigation and accessible texts.  

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/give-students-tips-digital-study-technique - 2025-09-07

The University offers managers and leaders support in their management role, in the form of training courses, programmes and workshops. Taking part in these initiatives also offers you a unique opportunity to meet and network with other managers within the University. The training courses offered include ‟New to management”, ‟In and out of leadership” and ‟A short day on leadership”. Go to Kompete

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Jenny Palm has been appointed to the position of Director and Lena Neij, who has temporarily been managing the institute in 2021, will go back to focusing on research. Jenny holds a role as Professor in Sustainable Urban Governance at the IIIEE since 2017 and will start in her new role February 1. Fredrik Andersson, Chairman of the IIIEE board and Professor at Lund University School of Economics a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-new-director-iiiee - 2025-09-07

In a debate forum a week or so ago, an international panel discussed how museums, art and culture can be used in teaching. The event was organised, for all those interested, by Lund University’s Division for Higher Education Development (AHU) in collaboration with Lena Örnberg within the Object-Based Learning (OBL) project. The meeting was held online and the panel participants were real experts i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/museums-art-and-culture-teaching - 2025-09-07

The Education Board’s plan of operations for 2022 has now been approved. The plan focuses on four areas and a vision and ideas document is to guide the development of our education over the next few years. The Education Board has now approved its plan of operations for 2022. The process of drafting the plan was different this time, starting as early as November last year, with a workshop with the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/education-board-focus-educational-development-lifelong-learning-and-widening-participation - 2025-09-07

On 17 January, Niclas Nilsson became the new director of LU Innovation. He has a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Lund and broad experience from research and development in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as of innovation collaborations at the intersection between industry and academia. Most recently, Niclas worked at LEO Pharma in Denmark, where his position included working a

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LU is now taking a strategic approach to its art and cultural communication to more clearly profile itself as the broad university, with artistic and cultural knowledge formation alongside other sciences. Art and culture help us to achieve a better understanding of society and ourselves. They also give us the opportunity to entertain hopes and visions and imagine possible futures, which in turn pr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/increased-cultural-communication-lu - 2025-09-07

Sexual harassment at work In spring 2021, a large number of randomly selected employees, doctoral students and students at Sweden’s higher education institutions responded to a survey on sexual harassment and victimisation. At the end of May, a report from the survey will be presented. I have already had the opportunity to read the results regarding Lund University. At Lund University, the Tellus

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-research-study-sexual-harassment-higher-education-institutions - 2025-09-07

February 15th was the deadline to make pre-notifications with the preliminary title and a contact person of proposed profile areas. We received 26 pre-notifications. Based on the preliminary titles, the 26 proposed profile areas that are being developed cover the breadth of the university very well. They contain many expected topics in which Lund University has a strong track-record, but also some

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/26-pre-notifications-profile-areas-received - 2025-09-07

Pär Svensson. Foto: Gabriella Gut There is a great deal of interest at the University in welcoming researchers from Afghanistan. The University Management and all the faculties consulted are prepared to contribute what is needed to receive these researchers. At the International Office of LU’s External Relations Division, Pär Svensson is in charge of coordinating work with vulnerable researchers a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/interest-welcoming-researchers-afghanistan - 2025-09-07

Most children are angry sometimes. But to often might be dangerous. Foto: Cresta Johnson/Shutterstock We all remember the disruptive boys in the class. The ones who shoplifted, got into playground fights and started smoking early. Some of these boys were quite simply displaying normal defiance and are now living a good and stable life as adults. But for a few of them, these were warning signs of r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/early-signs-ending-life-crime - 2025-09-07

Photo. Michael Erhardsson/MostPhotos Business travel at the University took off again in November last year compared with the same month the year before. More business trips could mean that the University’s climate footprint is increasing again and that the drop seen in 2020 was a one-off phenomenon. For a time last autumn, the pandemic restrictions were eased and people started to travel again. S

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/business-travel-university-rise - 2025-09-07

The report confirms the importance of working with purchasing and procurement, according to Claes Nilén, environmental manager at Lund University. Photo: Gunnar Menander For the first time, the University has investigated the collective climate footprint of the entire organisation. Emissions of greenhouse gases fell sharply during the pandemic, almost exclusively due to the suspension of travel. H

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/goods-and-equipment-affect-environment-most - 2025-09-07

Olivia Ingvarsson is skating with one of the girls in the project "Girl to girl": Photo: Kennet Ruona Wobbling and laughing, a few of the girls glide over the ice. They are holding hands in a chain. If one falls, they all go down. They are thirteen recently arrived girls and five volunteers in the Save the Children project, Girl to Girl, who are meeting on a Sunday at the ice rink in Lund. One of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-dont-need-pack-their-bags-gain-international-qualifications - 2025-09-07

Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Many of us have worked more remotely during the pandemic than we ever dreamed of doing. Informatics researcher Saonee Sarker has been studying IT-enabled collaboration and its impact on work-life balance for many years, but mainly with a focus on the IT sector. Today, she sees how that industry's digital settings has moved to encompass us all. The bookshelves in Saon

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hybrid-workplace-future - 2025-09-07

Lund University has set aside up to SEK 100 million for a university-wide investment in excellence at Lund University with a focus on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development for the period 2021-2025. Within the framework of this program, the Research Board has previously announced funding for interdisciplinary projects in the spring of 2021. The open call engaged widely and a large number of resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-call-applications-funding-projects-focusing-agenda-2030-and-sustainable-development - 2025-09-07

Swedish higher education institutions have recently highlighted several problems concerning international students and researchers and their opportunities to enter, stay and work in Sweden. This is not only a considerable concern for individuals, but also affects higher education institutions’ competitiveness and ultimately that of Sweden. I have previously written in the blog about amendments to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-initiatives-remove-obstacles-international-researchers - 2025-09-07

From the Vice-chancellor blog: Free and creative thoughts that can be turned into words or other expressions are the basis of a democratic society. Free and creative thoughts are also the preconditions for renewal. These are my words from a previous blog and after last week’s dark events, when Russia invaded Ukraine, it has become even more important to stress this. We now have an ongoing war in E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ukraines-cause-ours-freedom-and-democracy-are-fragile - 2025-09-07