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Quality assurance and enhancement in education includes all activities aimed at ensuring, developing and improving the quality of the courses and study programmes. Quality assurance and enhancement at Lund University is based on the University’s strategic plan and quality policy. It is also based on the national quality assurance system that the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) is responsi

https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/education-support/quality-assurance-and-enhancement - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When Lund University switched to digital teaching there were many challenges both for the teaching staff and students. How exams and assessment were to be conducted now that the students were not on-site was an important question and a very difficult challenge. The existing tools for digital on-campus exams were teste

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/digital-exams-campus-and-remote-solutions - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on so

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Engagement with alternative health theories and a scepticism towards authorities, politicians and pharmaceutical companies seem to unite the heterogeneous group of vaccine sceptics. “Many of them are not afraid of becoming infected with infectious diseases because they are convinced it will not happen”, says ethnologi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-vaccine-sceptics-think - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The number of managers at the University who have consulted the Occupational Health Service for preventive purposes has risen during the pandemic. "It is easy to feel that you are losing control when things change quickly and you don't know exactly how your employees are coping at home", says Anne Link, head of the Oc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-need-help-cope-working-home - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ceremonies have a certain power that speaks more to the emotions than to the intellect. This is the opinion of the newly inaugurated vice-chancellor Erik Renström, who sees the value in academic traditions. In his management team, however, new winds are blowing, bringing with them the values of “integrity” and “charac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integrity-and-character - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUM asked a handful of employees this question after almost a year of working from home. Several of them spoke about putting on some extra weight, more TV and less exercise – but they were not too keen on putting their face to that in LUM... However, another group of employees told us about their new and creative ways

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-your-body-feeling-and-how-your-training-going - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Recruitment is an area on which the University needs to continue working. "We can certainly become even better in this area", says Freddy Ståhlberg, one of the project managers in the RQ20 research evaluation. The reports from the transverse panels were completed by the start of the new year. There are five such panel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-evaluation-rq20-calls-better-international-recruitment - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was marked by luck, opportunity and fantastic people. Luck is a concept that researchers don’t use very often, but Johannes Rousk does. For him, it is not about

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2026-05-05

The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) is tasked with evaluating the quality of higher education and research. The government assigns UKÄ's remit. The national quality assurance system is based on the higher education institutions taking considerable individual responsibility for their own internal quality assurance. The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) carries out four types of revi

https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/education-support/quality-assurance-and-enhancement/national-reviews - 2026-05-05

Widening participation is an important part of Lund University’s efforts to be an inclusive higher education institution that welcomes everyone to higher education. The University is to work for diversity in education, stimulate underrepresented groups to apply to higher education and work to counteract socially uneven recruitment. Page contents:Widening participation – for an inclusive University

https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/education-support/widening-participation - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As the Swedish Tax Agency’s guidelines now allow health promotion reimbursement for apps for activities like running, Lund University has decided, as of 1 January 2021, also to approve health promotion reimbursement for participation in running groups led by a gym or other organisation with a corporate identity number

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/health-promotion-reimbursement-participation-running-groups - 2026-05-05

Here you can read more about how the salary review at Lund University works. Content on this page: Overhaul of salariesNegotiationsThose covered by the salary reviewSalary setting based on performance and resultsStaff appraisal and individual planningContinuous follow-up of staff appraisalsSpecific follow-up discussion before salary reviewNew salaryFor members in Saco-SFor members in OFR/S or Seko

https://www.staff.lu.se/employment/salary/salary-review - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Emissions from business travel by air dropped by 86% compared with the previous year, but energy consumption was not much affected by the pandemic. The environmental management report for 2020 has now been submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency and shows that 5 out of 7 relevant environmental targets were me

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/results-2020-environmental-management-report - 2026-05-05

Further down this page you will find a glossary of words and terms.Go directly to the Information Security GlossaryWhy is Information Security needed? In order to carry out your work and duties as an employee, researcher or student, you both produce and have access to large amounts of information and data necessary for your particular role. It needs to be correct and accessible whenever you need i

https://www.staff.lu.se/support-and-tools/security/information-security - 2026-05-05

In line with the Lund University Strategic Plan, we strive for the highest quality of education, with learning environments that are characterised by both teaching and research, excellent study environment and good learning support. Evaluation of ongoing courses and study programmesEvaluation of ongoing courses and study programmes takes place in several different ways. Regardless of the method, t

https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/education-support/quality-assurance-and-enhancement/follow-and-evaluation-courses-and-study-programmes - 2026-05-05

The research portal is the visitor interface for primarily external target groups, such as colleagues from other universities, the media and the general public. How the Research Portal helps youThe research portal gives an overview of the research conducted at Lund University. As a researcher, you can showcase your work, such as your research output or other activities related to your research on

https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/research-support/lucris/research-portal - 2026-05-05

Your research is represented on many platforms and databases worldwide. By keeping your profiles accurate, ensure your work stays accessible, searchable, and more visible. There are many IDs and platforms to consider, but we recommend that you:Get ORCID, and connect your ORCID ID to LUCRIS.Check if you exist in ScopusCheck if you have one or more Scopus Author IDs and ensure that the ID is correct

https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/research-support/lucris/use-lucris/personal-profile/orcid-and-researcher-ids - 2026-05-05

Do you need help to produce a video, animation or illustration? If so, you can contact the University’s production team. Would you like to engage the production team? Send an email to johan [dot] nyman [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se and you will be contacted for a start-up meeting. If you need help purely with illustrations that will not be used in moving material, contact illustration [at]

https://www.staff.lu.se/support-and-tools/communication-and-graphic-profile/images-film-and-music/universitys-production-team - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University is investing SEK 100 million in an interdisciplinary research programme focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. The programme is to attract international research expertise and to bring about the establishment of more internationally leading research environments in sustainability. “With i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-investing-sek-100-million-international-research-programme-sustainable-development - 2026-05-05