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https://www.virology.lu.se/article/pandemics-and-alertness - 2026-09-03

RuoXuan Xu has been awarded first prize in the Swedish Demographic Association’s 2026 thesis competition for a study on declining fertility intentions among Generation Z women in China. The Swedish Demographic Association has named RuoXuan Xu the winner of its 2026 thesis competition for the thesis “Why Are Fertility Intentions Declining Among Generation Z Women? Insights from the Chinese Context”

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lund-sociology-student-wins-award-thesis-family-and-fertility - 2026-09-03

This year, the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation and Societal Development awarded grants to eight outstanding research projects — among them, a project led by WCMM Fellow and Professor Filipe Pereira at Lund University. The awarded initiatives highlight scientific excellence and innovation with potential to address major societal challenges and drive development in the life science

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fellow-filipe-pereira-awarded-grant-mats-paulsson-foundation - 2026-09-03

On 11–12 December, the Board of the Faculty of Science and the Board of Lund University of Technology (LTH) made a decision regarding the faculties' joint establishment in Science Village and outlined the next steps in the process.The decisions, based on proposals from the Operations Steering Group (VSG) and the Science Village Stage 2 project group, include the following:Previous options for a Sc

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/board-decision-next-steps-universitys-establishment-science-village - 2026-09-03

The Faculty Office, ”Kansli S”, is currently preparing for a reorganisation at the turn of the year. The aim is to create a clearer, more efficient and better-coordinated organisation that meets the needs of the organisation and demands of the future more effectively. The Faculty Office has had an increasingly complex and growing workload for a long time. To meet this challenge and improve the wor

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-organisation-faculty-office-more-efficient-and-clearer-operational-support - 2026-09-03

Lund University is hiring 45 new assistant professors and visiting professors this spring. The initiative, which involves just over SEK 30 million in university-wide funding, represents a significant boost to operations – not least at the Faculty of Social Sciences, which is welcoming nine of the new recruits. The number of applications for Lund University’s international recruitment drive was hig

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/unprecedented-interest-international-recruitment - 2026-09-03

The EU has awarded Rustamjon Urinboyev €4.73 million to lead a new doctoral network on law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. Eleven European universities will recruit 15 PhD students for the programme. Four of these will be based at the Sociology of Law Department. The grant will fund the new doctoral network MINARET. The researchers will study how constitutiona

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/major-eu-grant-lund-led-phd-programme-islamic-legal-cultures - 2026-09-03

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/international-workshop-green-extractivism - 2026-09-03

On October 16-17th, 2024 Uzbekistan hosted the IV Tashkent Anticorruption Forum to promote innovation, strengthen compliance, and foster global cooperation. The Forum was organized by the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic Uzbekistan in collaboration with European Union, the consortium led by GIZ, UNDP and UNODC ROCA. The Forum brought together 250 representatives from anticorruption agencies,

https://www.norca.lu.se/article/iv-tashkent-anticorruption-forum-panel-discussion-nuruipa-mukanova-secretary-general-anticorruption - 2026-09-03

https://www.physchem.lu.se/article/ingemar-wadso - 2026-09-03

Vinnova has granted funding for the planning of clusters of excellence for groundbreaking technology. Of the 45 projects approved, five are at The Faculty of Engineering, and two are led by NextG2Com researchers. The projects granted by Vinnova bring together actors in all six strategic technology areas: AI and autonomous systems, materials and production technology, energy technology, biotechnolo

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/lth-projects-receive-funding-vinnova-plan-future-technology-clusters - 2026-09-03

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/work-environment-prize-malin-alsved-and-jakob-londahl - 2026-09-03

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mattias-borg-awarded-low-cost-monitoring-methane-emissions - 2026-09-03

"It is important that mistakes are neither punished nor swept under the rug, but rather integrated into the group's learning," says Pernilla Stenström, medical doctor and lecturer. On April 3rd, she will give a talk in Lund University's Leadership Forum. Pernilla Stenström shares her best tips for leaders who want to promote psychological safety:Listen with an open mind. Never assume that you know

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/psychological-safety-groups-and-workplaces-ups-efficiency - 2026-09-03

An investigation by Miljödata AB, the provider of the Adato system used by Lund University, shows that the group behind last week’s cyberattack on Adato managed to access certain information about all university employees. Former employees are also affected. What information has the threat actor obtained?The data accessed by the threat actor includes, among other things, personal identity numbers,

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/update-59-cyberattack-our-system-provider-has-resulted-data-breach - 2026-09-03

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 - 2026-09-04

Scientific researchers are not usually known for their entrepreneurship. However, at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, there is an innovative group of experts who have developed a tool that can help stakeholders in society when flooding occurs. The sun is beating down on Sölvegatan as a barefooted Professor Petter Pilesjö opens the door to the GIS Centre. It has not raine

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/scientists-new-flood-analysis-product-goes-against-flow - 2026-09-04

International text theft is difficult to deal with, especially for individual researchers. The University should take the lead, and find out how plagiarism issues are dealt with in different countries and what authorities exist there. So says Haro de Grauw, the doctoral student ombudsman. “The University could have such a resource, and gather knowledge on how such issues are handled in different c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-knowledge-needed-about-plagiarism - 2026-09-04

Linguist Sara Farshchi's research was plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers who published it as their own. Five months have passed since Professor Carita Paradis discovered that parts of her former doctoral student Sara Farshchi's five-year-old thesis had been plagiarised by three Ukrainian researchers and that the plagiarism had been published by international publishers Springer, among othe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-was-plagiarised - 2026-09-04

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/come-and-celebrate-finalists-future-innovations-award-during-inspiring-lunch-event - 2026-09-04