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Explore Skill School, the Social Sciences Method Center's exclusive workshop series, tailored for doctoral students and senior researchers at Lund University! In September and October, we offer eight exciting workshops that will enhance your skills and give you the chance to network with other method enthusiasts from across the university. The initiative is aimed at academic staff from all faculti
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/explore-skill-school - 2025-09-28
Alumni are a group that we sometimes almost manage to overlook, but given that our network of alumni is approaching 50,000 individuals, they are certainly worthy of our attention! Even more so, perhaps, as we approach the end of an academic year with many students about to take the step to becoming alumni. Getting alumni involved in activities brings many advantages for a university. This might in
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/our-alumni-are-universitys-best-ambassadors - 2025-09-28
It is time for the doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University's major ceremony and the faculties' biggest academic celebration. It is time for the faculties' doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors to be honoured. The doctoral degree conferment ceremony is a solemn ceremony in Lund Cathedral, during which the doctoral students who have completed their doctoral studies in the past ye
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-years-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-23-may - 2025-09-28
The current telephony contract will end on 31 March 2026, and a call for tenders is now being launched so that a new contract can enter into force the following day. The new contract will involve changes taking place. Therefore, a project is now being launched to get everything in place. Find out what you need to do to be ready. Two suppliers become oneLund University's current telephony solution
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-procurement-telephony-underway-landline-telephones-are-being-phased-out - 2025-09-28
Jonas Midlöv has assumed the post of chief security officer for the entire University on 12 May. He comes from the Swedish Police Authority, where he has many years of experience in security-related work. Jonas Midlöv has a background with the police and has spent the last ten years working in the Swedish Police Authority’s regional investigative unit. He has held a variety of specialist and manag
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/universitys-new-chief-security-officer-jonas-midlov - 2025-09-28
Travelling on business can present challenges and risks, especially when visiting areas with heightened security risks. To ensure safe and well-planned journeys, a new checklist has been launched, providing comprehensive guidance and concrete tips when travelling on business. The new checklist has been developed to support staff and managers in making informed risk assessments for every business t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-checklist-improves-safety-when-travelling-work - 2025-09-28
Lund University can nominate up to three candidates for participation in the application round for STINT Teaching Sabbatical 2025. The STINT Teaching Sabbatical is a programme that offers researchers and teachers the opportunity to spend the autumn semester at one of STINT’s thirteen partner institutions in Botswana, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and the USA.The programme aims to develop both indiv
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-stint-teaching-sabbatical-2025 - 2025-09-28
The University Board has allocated strategic funds to strengthen research and education at Campus Helsingborg. Employees can now apply for funding for research and development projects within the framework of Campus Helsingborg's strategic initiatives. The purpose of the initiative is to stimulate interdisciplinary collaborations, support established research environments with growth potential, an
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategic-funds-research-and-collaboration-campus-helsingborg - 2025-09-28
Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take shape and much of the work from the project “Building the e-Infrastructure Unit” has been transformed into a permanent and long-term plan for how we will work with research data management in the future. Intensive work is underway to build up the new Research Data Office. The unit is starting to take
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-research-data-office-takes-shape - 2025-09-28
In recent years, Lund University has invested heavily in emphasising the role of culture and the arts in education, research and innovation. To support teaching practitioners in this work, money for seed funding was announced last autumn – a chance to support new projects that will bring culture into the teaching practitioners work in creative ways. In total, 18 exciting applications were received
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-projects-receive-seed-funding-integrate-arts-and-culture-education-and-research - 2025-09-28
The aim is more efficient and effective communication operations that better meet the needs of the organisation and focuses on the user. On 4 February, the university director decided on a new organisation and mission for the communication activities of the Central Administration. The communication operations of faculties, departments and centres are not affected by the organisational change.Respo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-university-wide-communication-organisation-decided - 2025-09-28
The University is now taking the next step towards a more secure IT environment. To protect ourselves against today's increased threats, secure passwords alone are not enough; we also need strong authentication to log in to our IT services. According to a Vice-Chancellor’s decision on 16 January this year, strong authentication is to be used for the shared IT services at Lund University. Strong au
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/coming-soon-strong-authentication - 2025-09-28
According to previous plans, the renovation of the Main University Building was to be completed in 2028. However, the project has proved to be more extensive and complex than previous assessments suggested. In addition, the project has been delayed due to the need to redo a procurement. Dialogue on the continuation of the project including a new timetable is ongoing between Lund University (LU) an
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/main-university-building-renovation-delayed-dialogue-ongoing - 2025-09-28
Ahead of the autumn 2025 semester, LUBcat and LUBsearch will be replaced by Finn, the library search service. Finn allows you to search both the print and electronic collections of libraries. A beta version is already available for you to test and give feedback on. LUBcat and LUBsearch can be used as usual until the launch.Moving to a common search system has long been discussed, to make searches
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/libraries-launch-new-search-service-2025 - 2025-09-28
According to a travel survey conducted last autumn, better public transport and secure bicycle parking at the workplace are the main measures needed to reduce car commuting. There are also differences in travel patterns between faculties. "The travel survey provides a valuable insight into the commuters’ wishes on what can facilitate sustainable travel in their everyday lives. Now we can weave thi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/depth-report-employees-commutes-lund - 2025-09-28
Set a goal for your training for one to four months and pay in SEK 1,000. You get your money back if you achieve your goal. Crazy? Perhaps, but in a study by Professor of Economics Erik Wengström and his colleagues, the incentive proved to be quite effective compared with the control groups. “I’ve had a long-standing interest in how people behave in strategic situations and if you look at it from
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/achieve-your-training-goals-and-get-money-back-it-works - 2025-09-28
What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understanding and explaining the mysteries of nature was Vanya Darakchieva’s dream during he
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-09-28
Investigating air pollution is not for researchers afraid of heights. One of the fearless is Erik Ahlberg, a combustion physicist at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH). His working days are often spent far above ground – currently on the roof of Malmö Town Hall, where the instruments that capture air particles are located. There are many stairs in the town hall. The last staircase to the top of the
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-high-altitude-when-air-under-scrutiny - 2025-09-28
With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the blueprint for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts’ future co-location. “Imagine creating a campus area in Heleneholm where the Malmö Academy of Music is already located. It would be something completely new in Scandinavia, and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2025-09-28
He has designed a transport box that keeps hearts alive outside the body and developed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device. But during a visit to nuns in Africa, he was suspected of being a spy. Meet Stig Steen, a post-retirement professor of thoracic surgery, who is driven by an unshakeable belief that the greatest things in life are on the other side of the mountain. If Stig Steen had f
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cardiothoracic-innovator - 2025-09-28
