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There is widespread agreement among the physicists and chemists for their establishment in Science Village to take place simultaneously and as soon as possible. There are also proposals for how the two departments could work together. Leif Bülow, head of the Department of Chemistry, describes the forthcoming establishment and merger as an incredible opportunity and says the vast majority of those
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chance-lifetime - 2025-10-16
During the excursion week this spring, Master’s students from the Department of Geology visited Öland and the Danish town of Faxe. This year there was also a new location in the programme. Students had the opportunity to learn more about the Cretaceous period and its fossil remains in the bat-filled Tykarp Cave, which is actually an old limestone mine. Anders Lindskog and Johan Lindgren suddenly c
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-university-and-underground-world - 2025-10-16
Yulia Vakulenko grew up in a small Russian town north of the Arctic Circle, today she works at Lund University. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, her world was turned upside down. The first thing Yulia Vakulenko says when she meets me on the staircase of her workplace at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, IKDC, is that her sorrow is nothing compared to what the people of Ukraine are being
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yulia-russia-helps-refugees-ukraine - 2025-10-16
The results of the election in September may have an impact on academic freedom and the independence of universities from political power. The principle of keeping an arm's length between politics and higher education and research is increasingly being called into question. “I think we are currently in a situation in which the most important thing is not for universities to receive more money, but
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-under-threat - 2025-10-16
Pathologists and coroners are now commonplace in crime novels and TV crime series and are often depicted as slightly odd people. Elisabet Englund has worked at the Division of Pathology in Lund for over 40 years. She has often been told that she is a little ‘too happy’ to be a pathologist. “Yes, there is a stereotype of people who work with dead people, which perhaps contributes to the mystificati
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/death-our-textbook-life - 2025-10-16
It was not an entirely uncontroversial decision to gather cancer researchers in the abandoned AstraZeneca premises ten years ago. Carl Borrebaeck was pro vice-chancellor at the time and pushed for the move which in itself cost SEK 50 million in central university funds. “I was not very popular with the deans at that time,” he says. “But now it turns out that Medicon Village is a great success and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medicon-village-ten-years-after-start - 2025-10-16
During fall, more career activities for academic staff is on offer. All activities are in English, and free of charge, some examples follows: Academic writing – from perfectionism and procrastination to flow; workshop. August 18th. Finish on time workshop for PhDs. August 19th. Finish on time workshop for postdocs. August 23rd. Take charge of your career; workshop online, 2 half days September 1
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/career-development-academic-staff-1 - 2025-10-16
Why are there always these incomprehensible abbreviations? LU stands for Lund University, which the most of us know by now. EOSC stands for the European Open Science Cloud and the EOSC Association has been created to develop and manage the EOSC. Lund University applied for membership in the association and was approved at the General Assembly on 24 May in Brussels. From Sweden, Chalmers, the Karol
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-has-now-joined-eosc-what - 2025-10-16
Applications for funding for new thematic collaboration initiatives are now open. The purpose of the thematic collaboration initiatives is to support work on solutions in areas where Lund University has established research that can contribute to future breakthroughs. New for this year’s call, in addition to focusing on the intersection between research and collaboration, is the opening up for app
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-opportunities-apply-collaboration-funding - 2025-10-16
The Workplace of the Future project has now presented its first report to the Vice-Chancellor. It concluded with concrete suggestions for LU to continue working on in order to become an attractive and sustainable workplace for the long-term. The report describes what emerged from a total of eleven workshops with employees and managers from different categories of staff, who were asked what they th
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/workplace-future-project-has-finished-its-first-report - 2025-10-16
A new fund will finance projects that promote sustainable development and reduce the University’s impact on the climate. By supporting ideas at an early stage, research can contribute to a positive societal transition. SEK 12 million has been allocated to the fund and applications can be made by researchers and students at the University. Lund University has big goals to reduce the negative impact
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-support-sustainable-innovations - 2025-10-16
If you need help with layouts, video production, web development, illustrations or other communication services, you are to use the agencies with which the University has an agreement. The new contracts are now ready and replace the previous ones. The procurement of communication services has been completed and Lund University has concluded agreements with agencies in the following five categories
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-agreement-communication-agencies-place - 2025-10-16
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 - 2025-10-16
A new exhibition, Lund University – History and Stories have opened at the Historical Museum. More than 350 years of LU’s history will be painted with broad brush strokes, and some of the University’s finest treasures will be on show. The exhibition will be on the ground floor in the museum’s areas for temporary shows. In the larger Althin room, the presentation will be somewhat chronological, wit
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/exhibition-about-lund-university-historical-museum - 2025-10-16
The Vice-Chancellor has decided that the first part of the ‘Coordinated examination service’ project will start with a budget of SEK 13.8 million. The project is tasked with initiating coordinated administration and scheduling, organising a pool of exam invigilators and starting work on the construction of a dedicated examinations building. The project is based on the wishes and organisational req
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-efficient-exam-management-coordinated-examination-service-project - 2025-10-16
The Act on Special Protection for Workers against Reprisals for Whistleblowing concerning Serious Irregularities (2021:890), referred to as the Whistleblowing Act, entered into force on 17 December 2021. The Act enables people to report irregularities in a work-related context of such gravity that their cessation is in the public interest. No later than 17 July 2022, public sector employers with a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/reporting-irregularities - 2025-10-16
The global database for research funding opportunities that Lund University has subscribed to for some time – Research Professional – is now replaced by Pivot-RP. All key features found in Research Professional are also available in Pivot-RP, such as the potential to save your frequent searches and receive e-mail notifications with interesting funding opportunities. To do this, one need first to c
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-funding-database-research-professional-replaced-pivot-rp - 2025-10-16
With each day that passes, I become more impressed by this organisation. In the early spring, we came out of the pandemic (well, not completely, but there was at least a loosening of restrictions that were paralysing society) to be met by a new uncertainty, which since then has unsettled us and caused anxiety – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just as when the pandemic struck, Lund University showed
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/summer-greeting - 2025-10-16
Now, we are here at last, after intense involvement and many exciting ideas from many parts of the University, the Vice-Chancellor has today (23 June) decided on five profile areas for Lund University for 2022-2030. The selected profile areas are: Human Rights in a Polarised World Light and Materials – from fundamental understanding to industrial and societal needs Natural and Artificial Cognition
Help your students by referring them to campusonline.se. On the site they can find tips on involvement, reading and planning in the light of more or less digital teaching. There are now also two much requested texts, one on multitasking – or rather uni-tasking – and one on ergonomics. Do your students attend Zoom meetings while in bed, or do they just look like a shadow in front of a window backli
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tips-study-technique-your-students - 2025-10-16
