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This week, (11-15 Sept) Lund University is visited by a group of technical and administrative staff from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. The visit is part of a digital and physical exchange programme that started in May and will end in December. The group from Stellenbosch University will job shadow, among others, the Division of Research, Collaboration and Innovation, the Legal Departmen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/staff-stellenbosch-university-exchange-lund - 2025-11-06

Veterinarian in charge Anders Forslid is retiring after 30 years working to improve the welfare of research animals at Lund University. He has witnessed a paradigm shift in animal health and animal experiments, and the way animal testing and humans’ obligations are viewed has changed. When Anders Forslid started out as a laboratory animal veterinarian at Lund University, he received a fairly cool

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-we-are-going-have-animal-testing-then-we-have-do-it-well - 2025-11-06

After just over a year as acting director of MAX IV, Olof Karis was named ordinary director earlier this summer. Was it an easy decision to stay on? “Oh definitely, I communicated my interest both in the application and in interviews. Ever since I was a doctoral student, I have wanted to see an increased use of synchrotron radiation in Swedish research.” What do you feel most proud of since you be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/challenges-await-new-ordinary-director-max-iv - 2025-11-06

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 - 2025-11-06

Evaluate employees’ performance differently – it could be a route to achieving a more gender equal university. This according to Rebecca Selberg, associate professor of gender studies. “A better, more holistic perspective on career development is needed,” she says. It is clear that a lot has happened in the area of gender equality at Lund University since women were first allowed to study here 150

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rethink-employee-performance-and-improve-gender-equality - 2025-11-06

Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2025-11-06

Why are there hundreds of jumbled human bones in the ground at Uppåkra? That is one of the mysteries that archaeologists at Lund University hope to be able to solve in the next few years. They will be aided by the latest DNA technology. A quiet calm rests over Uppåkra, just outside Lund. The only sound under the enormous tent canvas that has been hung just next to an old pigsty – which incidentall

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-technique-reveals-uppakras-violent-past - 2025-11-06

Through an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with industry, a group of researchers hope to identify a more efficient way of assessing the ground ahead of future construction projects. The results of the research might, for example, accelerate the process of modernising the Swedish rail network. On selected sections of the track between Lund and Hässleholm, a research project is u

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/improving-efficiency-construction-railway-future - 2025-11-06

How are we affected when education moves out of the classroom and onto digital platforms? Listen to Lucas Cone from the University of Copenhagen discuss this in the seminar "I'm a Google teacher": digital platforms, affective attachments, and pedagogical monopolization in Danish public education. Time and place: October 10th from 3:15 to 4:45 PM in room C121 at LUX. The deadline for registration i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seminarium-im-google-teacher-lucas-cone - 2025-11-06

Keep in mind that you should no longer submit original paper receipts when applying for reimbursement for health promotion, health care and medication costs. Instead, attach your original receipts in digitally scanned format (not photographed) when registering an application in Primula. However, you need to be able to present the paper receipts for three months after your application has been appr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-handling-receipts-reimbursement-health-promotion-healthcare-and-medication-costs - 2025-11-06

During the academic years 2023/24 and 2024/25, doctoral students and doctoral supervisors have increased opportunities to apply for Erasmus+ scholarships for a stay at a partner university within and outside the EU/EEA. Mobility to members of LU's prioritised networks EUGLOH, LERU  and U21 is particularly encouraged. Erasmus+ scholarships for mobility to higher education institutions outside the E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/erasmus-scholarships-doctoral-students-and-doctoral-supervisors - 2025-11-06

Employees and students at Lund University are hereby invited to propose candidates for the 2024 Lund University Administrative Prize before the 6 November. With this award, the University management wishes to recognize extraordinary contributions in administration throughout the University. Lund University’s administrative prize is to be awarded annually to an employee at Lund University for outst

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nominate-candidates-university-administrative-prize-2024 - 2025-11-06

The Sustainability Fund offers an opportunity to explore innovative potential and fund activities outside the scope of existing research projects. Its purpose is to support the development of early innovative ideas from research projects that have an impact on sustainable development. The second call for applications attracted a diverse range of applications, out of which five were granted funding

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-new-projects-awarded-grants-sustainability-fund - 2025-11-06

Central negotiations are still ongoing at national level regarding new agreements between state employers and the employeer organisations with which these employers have collective agreements. However, the intention of the central parties is to have new agreements in place by 1 October, which Lund University has assumed in the planning of the salary review. Preliminary timetable for salary review

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preliminary-timetable-years-salary-review-now-set - 2025-11-06

The fact that June’s EU meeting held in Lund had the theme “The Potential of Research Data: How Research Infrastructures Provide New Opportunities and Benefits for Society,” clearly shows the enormous opportunity that research data could represent. Now it is time to make that potential a reality. The University’s research generates increasingly large volumes of data and the need to know where and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/common-approach-research-data-e-infrastructure-project - 2025-11-06

As part of the University’s annual academic ceremony in January, Jonas Hafström, former chair of the University Board, and Professor Anne L’Huiller will receive Lund University’s gold medal for their exceptional contributions to the University. Lund University can award silver and gold medals to people who have made important contributions either to Lund University or to society as a whole. The fi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/universitys-gold-medal-awarded-anne-lhuillier-and-jonas-hafstrom - 2025-11-06

Protein researcher Mikael Akke has been showered with grants recently: a total in excess of SEK 130 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the European Research Council. But who is the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) professor whose research is so hot right now? Since childhood, Mikael Akke has been driven by a desire to understand how things work in nature. Biology and chemistry w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/protein-researcher-receives-major-grants - 2025-11-06

Anne L'Huillier is one of the winners of the Nobel prize 2023. Anne L'Huillier is Professor at Atomic Physics at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden, Pierre Agostini, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, and Ferenc Krausz, Max Planck Institute of Quantum O

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-physics-lund-university - 2025-11-06

LINXS invites proposals for new Themes, starting in 2024. We welcome original, innovative, and pioneering Theme proposals that will advance science using X-rays, neutrons, and complementing techniques. For this call, LINXS encourages applications relating to hard and soft condensed matter.   LINXS Themes are funded for three years and aim to bring research communities together. A Theme does not fu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/linxs-institute-advanced-neutron-and-x-ray-science-invites-new-themes - 2025-11-06

All researchers at Lund University now have the opportunity to share their research through the international news platform, The Conversation. The Conversation is a politically independent news site where researchers from member universities write popular science news articles, analyses, and opinion pieces in English within their areas of expertise, with the support of an editor. Lund University h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/meet-conversation-autumn-and-reach-international-audience - 2025-11-06