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Every year, the Swedish Riksdag organises a research day. This year the theme was “artificial intelligence”. The aim is to give Members of Parliament the opportunity to gain new knowledge and to highlight the value of science for politics, democracy, and parliamentary decision-making. This year, Johan Axhamn, senior lecturer in Business Law here at LUSEM, was the sole representative from Lund Univ

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/johan-axhamn-represented-lund-swedish-riksdags-seminar-ai - 2026-05-09

This April, the first national interim report on responsible internationalisation was published. The aim is to create national guidelines and a national support structure for responsible internationalisation. The report is commissioned by the Swedish government and is written by Universitets- och högskolerådet (UHR), Vetenskapsrådet och Vinnova. Tommy Shih and Sylvia Schwaag Serger, both researche

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/responsible-internationalisation-tommy-shih-comments-new-national-report - 2026-05-09

The university's overall goals and focus areas for work environment management have been updated for the period 2024 - 2027. Lund University's long-term work environment goal is a sustainable work environment for everyone working at the university.Lund University's long-term work environment goal is a sustainable work environment for everyone working at the university.Special focus on three areasT

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/updated-work-environment-goals-lund-university - 2026-05-09

It is soon time for the traditional celebrations on 30 April and 1 May, which as usual includes the donning of student caps, the students’ May Day speech to the Vice-Chancellor, and the singing in of spring in Lundagård by the male voice choir, Lund Student Singers. Donning of student caps Time: 30 April: 17:20-18:00Place: Tegnérsplatsen, LundagårdOn 30 April, the vice-president of Lund University

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/celebrations-30-april-and-1-may-2024 - 2026-05-09

A new framework for measuring qualifying expertise in teaching has been produced and will now be implemented at the University. The aim is to recognise excellence in teaching by applying a classification and structure for teaching practitioners’ qualifications. The framework, developed by Rachel Forsyth and Lena Christensen, is based on the Advancing Teaching initiative, an international framework

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/excellent-teaching-be-highlighted-through-recognition-educational-qualifications - 2026-05-09

Doctoral education student Johan Jönsson will defend his thesis on 3 May. Get a quick glimpse of his thesis, experiences and near future. Hi Johan! You are about to defend your thesis “Performing Numbers”. In short, what is your thesis about?”It’s about the role of numbers in everyday social interaction. Basically, the thesis starts from the observation that numbers permeate our everyday lives, ou

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-johan-jonsson - 2026-05-09

“Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulations, Vinzent Ostermeyer! In his doctoral thesis, titled “Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institut

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/vinzent-ostermeyer-wrote-best-doctoral-thesis-lusem-2023 - 2026-05-09

A former student had heard that our senior lecturer in statistics, Pierre Carbonnier was about to retire after this semester. Would we do a feature on him? The student remembered him fondly and added that his mother had also had Pierre as a teacher and thought he was pretty awesome. Few, if any statistics teachers can claim to have reached and inspired more students than Pierre Carbonnier, who has

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/44-years-carbonnier-stats-dont-lie - 2026-05-09

The current platform for strategic work applies until the end of this year, but a decision on an updated version for the period 2025-2027 has already been taken. The revised platform retains its original structure, with four prioritised areas and three general watchwords: innovative, digital and sustainable. The content has however been adjusted in order to better address current issues in the wid

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/platform-strategic-work-2025-2027 - 2026-05-09

Regarding the setting up of a tent camp in Lundagård and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lund

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/tent-camp-lundagard-0 - 2026-05-09

In connection with Pride Week in Lund, the University invites you to join us in a pre-procession get-together, after which we can participate in the Pride parade together. The LundaPride parade takes place on 18 May and the University wishes to take part and highlight the event. All students and employees are welcome to go together in the Pride parade. We start at 11.30 in the Main University Buil

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/join-us-lundapride-18-may-0 - 2026-05-09

Malgorzata Bogdan, Professor of Statistics, Lund University School of Economics and Management and University of Wroclaw, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Professor Malgorzata Bogdan receives the award ”for innovative contributions to high-dimensional statistics, particularly in multiple testing and variable selection, insightful connections between Bayesian

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/statistics-professor-malgorzata-bogdan-named-ims-fellow-2024 - 2026-05-09

According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement applications.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2026-05-09

A COIL involves two different courses at two universities in different countries where students collaborate digitally during a part of the course. Each course follows its own syllabus, and the teachers grade their respective students.For several years, Lund University has offered seed money to support teachers who, in collaboration with colleagues from EUGLOH, want to develop new courses or progra

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/do-you-want-take-opportunity-develop-coil - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do party cues influence support for a policy proposal? Does it matter whether information on a policy is presented by an in- or outgroup representative? Hanna Bäck has together with Annika Fredén and Emma Renström analyzed this question in a large-scale survey experiment. You can read about their results in the ar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-party-cues-and-political-attitudes - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 'Politicization and EU Development Policy: The Role of External Perceptions. Case of Ukraine' This article highlights the role of external audiences and their perceptions in analysing the politicization of EU development policy. We analyse how EU foreign assistance is understood in two different intermediary arenas of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-chaban-external-perceptions-and-politicization-eu-development-policy - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Does party system polarization lead to more government crises? Are there institutions that can mitigate such destabilizing effects? Hanna Bäck has together with Henning Bergmann and Thomas Saalfeld analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of 28 European democracies. You can read about their results in the arti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-polarization-and-government-crises - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New teaching material by Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple Our colleagues Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple have recently launched a new teaching material – Beyond the Fossil Society – for high school and upper secondary school. In collaboration with th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/looking-future-world-beyond-fossil-society - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In his chapter on ‘Normative Power Approach to European Union External Action, Ian Manners demonstrates how the Normative Power Approach (NPA) to the EU sets out a radically different means of studying and changing planetary politics The NPA uses normative theory, theories of explanation and understanding, and practic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-normative-power-approach-eu-external-action - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johannes Lindvall has, together with Kerstin Enflo and Alexandra L. Cermeño, published the article “Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State” in the journal British Journal of Political Science. The article shows that the coming of the railroad in the middle of the nineteenth century strengthened

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-how-railroad-strengthened-nation-state - 2026-05-09