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The Development Office has produced a campaign called “Give research as a Christmas present”, which is being arranged for the second year running. The primary message of the campaign is that you can make a difference by simply making a donation. In practical terms it could concern helping to reveal Uppåkra’s historical secrets or supporting the development of cures for serious viral diseases. Prov

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/christmas-present-campaign-support-lus-research - 2025-10-12

Part 1 of the Coordinated Examination Service project is proceeding according to plan and from 1 March the project will be responsible for staffing invigilators for the exams conducted at the Annex (Sölvegatan 20, Lund). This is the first step towards a joint examination administration and organisation using an exam invigilator pool. This will be gradually increased to apply to all joint examinati

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/coordinated-examination-service - 2025-10-12

There is now a slightly shorter summary version of the Equal Opportunities Plan for Lund University 2022–2027. Available as a printed version, it is easy to distribute to new staff and students. In the summary version, the University has focused on the four important goals that are to be met during the period 2022–2027: Recruitment processes and career paths are to be free from discrimination. Kno

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/there-now-summary-version-lus-equal-opportunities-plan - 2025-10-12

A considerable reduction in the availability of electricity is expected this winter. If the electricity available is less than the demand for electricity, this results in what is known as a power shortfall. This could lead to short power cuts at the University. There is now a Vice-Chancellor’s decision that clarifies duties and responsibilities within the University in the event of a power shortfa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-must-be-prepared-disconnection-electricity-0 - 2025-10-12

Lund university has the privilege of inviting you to four lectures by the Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry for 2021 and 2022 and also one Nobel Laureate in Physics 2022. Professor David MacMillan Nobel prize 2021 Nobel prize 2021 for his work on "asymmetric organocatalysis". December 1, 16:00-17:00, Lux, Helgonavägen 3, Lund A public arrangement by the Chemical Society in Lund. Read more: Nobel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nobel-laureates-give-lectures-lund - 2025-10-12

The spread of respiratory infections (Covid-19, RS and influenza) in society is now increasing considerably. The Public Health Agency of Sweden had issued a reminder that when you are ill, it is important to stay at home and to avoid close contact with others. We all have a shared responsibility for reducing the spread of infection. At present, it is important that those who are ill with symptoms

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stay-home-if-you-are-ill - 2025-10-12

Dear students and colleagues, Lund University is a place for objectivity, open conversation and the gratifying quest for knowledge. We are an organisation with a unique task – to produce, discuss and communicate knowledge. We are an organisation of, and for, experts. I myself am an expert on insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. To be frank, that is pretty niche and nerdy. Yet here, at Lun

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seasons-greetings - 2025-10-12

When, how and if the national call for profile areas will take place is still not clear. The budget bill provided no clear answers. On 22 November, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions arranged a seminar called “Sharing experiences around the higher education institutions’ work on profile areas,” in which most universities participated. No one had any more information about the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/profile-areas-lund-university-work-continues-no-word-government - 2025-10-12

In accordance with the timeline for the year’s salary review, the University hopes to be able to pay out the new salaries in February 2023. It is hoped that more finalised information can be distributed in January. Local negotiations are currently ongoing with the employee organisations OFR and SEKO about salaries for employees who are members of those organisations. Salary-setting appraisals are

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/salary-review-new-salaries-expected-be-paid-out-february - 2025-10-12

That all students should learn about sustainability at some point during their education is something the Swedish Council for Higher Education has decided. But how can lecturers include sustainability in their teaching – without tying themselves in knots in what is often a hectic schedule? That was just one of the questions addressed in the seminar series Sustainable Teaching & Learning in Higher

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seminar-sustainable-teachers-about-working-sustainably-teaching-staff - 2025-10-12

The Lund students’ prize for excellence in teaching is awarded for outstanding contributions to education. The vice-chancellor appoints the winners after a proposal by the students’ unions. In addition, a grant of SEK 25 000 each is awarded to the departments to enable study trips for the prize-winners. This year, the prize goes to senior lecturer, Tina Mattsson, School of Social Work senior lectu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-students-prize-excellence-teaching-2023 - 2025-10-12

The Administrative Prize is awarded annually for outstanding administrative efforts of an innovative nature that have contributed to the University’s development, or for extraordinary service and efficiency. The 2023 prize winners are programme planner Lena Nielsen from LTH’s faculty office (Education Unit) and librarian Gabriella Johansson, from the Social Sciences Faculty Library. They are each

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/2023-administrative-prize-awarded-lena-nielsen-and-gabriella-johansson - 2025-10-12

In order to be reimbursed for health promotion activities that you have paid for during 2022, you must submit your receipts and send in your application through Primula no later than 31 January 2023. Purchases made in November and December can be reimbursed through the 2023 health promotion reimbursement.   Send the outlay appendix and receipts/other attachments via the internal mail service to, “

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-2022-health-promotion-reimbursement-end-january-latest - 2025-10-12

Do you want to expand the scope of your research within one of the Europe's most successful university alliances? Would you like to strengthen existing collaborations with colleagues at University of Paris-Saclay, Lund University, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, University of Porto and University of Szeged? Are you interested in getting to know and access the vast network of Excellence Cor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-application-euglohria-seeding-grant-deadline-january-15th-2023 - 2025-10-12

The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award aims to promote innovative, interdisciplinary research on sustainable development by early career scholars at Lund University. PhD students, post docs, and researchers with a PhD exam no older than five years can be nominated. The winner will be awarded 25 000 SEK and the announcement and prize ceremony will take place at the annual Lund University Sustainabil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nominations-are-open-lund-university-agenda-2030-award - 2025-10-12

A heated discussion under the hashtag Swedengate erupted on social media last spring. Swedes were accused of being strange as they did not invite their children’s friends to eat with them when the family was having dinner. The phenomenon was upsetting and ethnologist Håkan Jönsson was quickly inundated with questions. Are Swedes stingy? Swedengate came about when someone on the news and discussion

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedengate-disrespect-or-being-stingy - 2025-10-12

A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The kitchen table belonged to the then dean of LTH Thomas Johannesson, who had invited the founder of IKEA to his house to discuss a collaboration between the desig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2025-10-12

The ground floor of the University Library will be refurbished and preparations will start in the summer. During the renovation, the public section will be emptied and the number of study places will be more than halved. If all goes according to plan, the University Library interior will be both better and more beautiful when all is complete in time for the start of the autumn semester 2024. There

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/renovating-university-library-will-take-year - 2025-10-12

It can take a long time between words and action at the University, sometimes a little too long. This is one of the reasons the University management has developed a platform for strategic work. It speaks to what is most important to the University right now and will help it to act much faster as the world changes. Pandemic, war in Europe, fake news, increased polarisation at home and abroad and,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/changing-world-requires-agile-university - 2025-10-12

The quest to control the remarkable phenomena of quantum physics is ongoing around the world. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is making the subject even hotter. Lund University is also involved in exploring the unknown – and at times mind-boggling – perspectives of quantum states. Mathieu Gisselbrecht, senior lecturer in Physics, leads the way down the basement corridor of the Laser Centre at F

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researching-another-reality - 2025-10-12