Marine archaeologist Brendan Foley has excavated both a warplane from World War II and a 2000-year-old Roman merchant ship. Photo: Brett Seymour It was 17 December 1944. The American B-24 bomber aircraft, better known as the Tulsamerican, was circling the island of Vis off the coast of Croatia. The plane was damaged following an attack by the Germans and finally crashed into the sea. Seven of the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/deep-diving-history - 2025-08-25

Every chair is taken and the leaders of the workshop have had to turn participants away. Among doctoral students, there is clearly great interest in the topic – to finish your thesis on time and feel good along the way.   “I think the workshop is great, it opens your mind and the techniques seem realistic to use in your work”, says Kristin Osk Ingvarsdottir who this spring will commence the final

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Photo:Jenny Loftrup Åsa Burman is a former doctoral student at LU who has developed a method for efficiency and stress management. In January she held a workshop for doctoral students and has also written a book entitled "Finish on time - the Doctoral Student Handbook". Here are her best tips. Work in unitsDivide your day into units and A and B tasks. You should dedicate four 45-minute sessions to

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Open inspirational seminar 5th of March with Simon Bates, University of British Columbia, Canada. “Learning science and educational research has contributed to a huge body of knowledge into how we can make teaching (and therefore learning) more effective for our students. However, for faculty members within disciplines, this can often seem an impenetrably dense body of literature, and opportunitie

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-learning-research-can-tell-us-about-effective-blended-learning-course-design - 2025-08-25

Åsa Thormählen A new university-wide investment in career development for research team leaders, postdocs and doctoral students has been launched. The first initiative was a workshop for doctoral students on academic productivity and stress management. There are already activities aimed at supporting junior researchers in their careers, both within and outside the University, but the range varies

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-investing-career-support-junior-researchers - 2025-08-25

Be climat smart when travelling Lund University shall work on reducing its climate impact. New regulations have been produced for all travel paid for by Lund University (for staff and external guests as well as students). The new regulations are part of Lund University’s responsibility to reduce its climate impact and ensure the safety of its staff and public resources. They enter into force on 31

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-sustainable-travel-lund-university - 2025-08-25

HR-director Ann Silbersky Isaksson. Photo:Maria Lindh The transition of the salary and human resources administration to the National Government Service Centre (SSC) is not painless. After just over four months, uncertainty still prevails among administrative staff and managers about processing cases through Primula. “We are happy to come and help people out where there is a need”, says human reso

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hr-director-promises-help-tricky-salary-payments-0 - 2025-08-25

The University building. Photo: Kennet Ruona The main University building is to become a hub for the organisation! That is the vision proposed by project manager Louise Pierce, who is responsible for repurposing the now almost empty building in Lundagård park. In only three years, it is to be buzzing with activity in the form of students, employees and visitors. Since early last autumn, Louise Pie

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-plan-university-building-materializes - 2025-08-25

Claus-Christian Eckhardt, the Director of the School of Industrial Design is relieved. Photo: Erik Andersson A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-08-25

Growth or degrowth is the theme for "Debatt i Lund" during the Sustainability Week. Illustration Catrin Jakobsson. During Sustainability Week, you can hear psychologists’ tips on how you can get rid of your climate change anxiety by taking action. You can also experience an earthquake via a virtual reality game, take an art tour in the Botanical Garden or learn how to bake bread without generating

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As of 1 April 2019, it is a legal requirement for all purchases in the public sector to be invoiced electronically. The requirement is part of efforts to streamline public administration throughout the EU. In procurement processes, always inform your supplier of the new legal requirement. Refer them to lu.se/leverantör (in Swedish) or lunduniversity.lu.se/supplier (in English).Lund University is a

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A logical start of an academic career: Getting that external funding - where, when, how? Getting external funding is an important part of the academic career. But how do you find the relevant funding opportunities and how should you approach the research funding that is out there? This seminar (in English) will guide you through the research funding landscape in general, and more specifically in t

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Marjolein Thunissen. Photo Kennet Ruona Following criticism from the Swedish Research Council for delays and unclear leadership at MAX IV, the organisation is now headed in the right direction. Efficiency has increased through stricter deadlines, clearer priorities among the projects and increased clarity in the decision chains. “We are on the right path and managers and team leaders are taking fu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/max-iv-sees-light-end-tunnel - 2025-08-25

Jimmie Kristensson observes the lack of a clear plan for how to take care of people affected in different ways by a misconduct case. Photo: Kennet Ruona Threats and hate speech from outside are certainly very trying. But could they be even worse when they come from within the organisation? What if you barely dare to go to work because you get threatened – or you are not even allowed in to work bec

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/its-hard-deal-threats-within-ranks - 2025-08-25

Photo:Vchal/Shutterstock Infertility is now a condition as common as diabetes. On the one hand, women are waiting until they are older to have children, which makes it more difficult to get pregnant, but some studies also indicate a drastic decline in sperm counts in men over the past 50 years. Repro Union 2.0 is a Danish-Swedish initiative to reduce infertility in the EU. Aleksander Giwercman, a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-infertility-project-focuses-men - 2025-08-25

Is Lund University doing the right things in the right way? That is the big question that project managers Freddy Ståhlberg and Mats Benner want RQ20 to answer (RQ stands for Research Quality). Photo: Kennet Ruona och Johan Bävman RQ20, the new major research quality evaluation, is underway! It is based on self-evaluations and will involve around 5 000 members of staff. In contrast to the last tim

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Islamologist Anders Ackfeldt has featured on lists created by right-wing extremists of people considered as wanting to “destroy Sweden”. Photo:Kennet Ruona When Anders Ackfeldt and 22 other researchers criticised the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency’s (MSB) research report “The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden” for adding fuel to an overly conspiracy theory-tinged image of Islam, it provoked a delug

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Diana Mulinari, professor at the Department of Gender studies. Recurrent threats via telephone, email and letter – often in conjunction with being published. That is part of everyday research for gender researcher Diana Mulinari and many of her colleagues. “It is almost systematic. Those who hate and make threats are aggressively sexist and racist. Their hate ideology is based on who I am – a woma

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gender-researcher-threats-and-hate-are-part-everyday-life - 2025-08-25

Acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson. Photo:Jenny Loftrup Threats against researchers are increasing, according to acting chief security officer Håkan Jönsson, who received 16 reports of threats last year. The rise is in online threats, whereas the number of disruptive or violent people on campus is dropping – probably thanks to more locked doors. “But the hidden figures are high when it co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/online-threats-against-researchers-are-rise - 2025-08-25

Lund University has decided to apply for the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research Award. This award is given to organisations that follow the European Charter and Code for Researchers and the principles of Open and Transparent Merit-based Recruitment. In March 2005, the European Commission issued the Recommendation on the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hr-strategy-researchers - 2025-08-25