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The new volume EU Civil Society. Patterns of Cooperation, Competion and Conflict, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Editors of the book are Håkan Johansson, professor at the School of Social Work, and Sara Kalm, senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund. Other contributors from the School of Social Work areJayeon Lee, Anna Meeuwisse, Gabriella Scaramuzzino and Rober

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/new-book-eu-and-civil-society - 2025-12-27

 Due to an anonymous threat to the university and its students via the app Jodel and which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted at the university home page www.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call 046-222 07 00 from 8 am.

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-october-12 - 2025-12-27

Lund University reopens on TuesdayA decision to reopen Lund University was taken in the afternoon of Monday 12 October following the closure that has been in force since Sunday night. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morning.  The decision is based on new information from the Region Syd police. Investigations have revealed that the threat directed at Lund University post

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-opens-again - 2025-12-27

The Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority's (Brottsoffermyndigheten) praises Nora Germundsson, a student at the School of Social Work, for her bachelor thesis about the expectations of the country's women's shelters. Nora Germundsson was awarded second prize for her thesis "We need the voices - strong voices" - a qualitative study of new expectations of women's shelters. The thes

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/student-wins-prize-bachelors-thesis - 2025-12-27

In the spring of 2015 Lisa Hindström and Aleksandra Goreczna wrote their bachelor thesis about sex education in Grenada, after receiving an MFS scholarship for field studies. This is the report from their travels. When we decided to apply for a Minor Field Studies scholarship from The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, we were both abroad on international placements in different

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/report-minor-field-study - 2025-12-27

Carina Gallo, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, and assistant professor of criminology at Holy Names University (HNU), has been awarded the Burmeister Award by the Division of Distance Learning of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Gallo shares the award with Julaine Fowlin, PhD, former instructional designer at HNU, for their proposal, “Exploring Pol

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/carina-gallo-receives-award-innovative-teaching - 2025-12-27

Some forty Swedish top researchers and university delegations visited Singapore with the aim of developing research partnerships. Kristina Göransson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, represented Lund University's Faculty of Social Sciences at the Swedish Academic Collaboration Forum (SACF) in Singapore on 3-4 November. The project's aim is to make Swedish research better known abroad

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/seminar-develop-contacts-singapore - 2025-12-27

On October 29, Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino were in Rome to present the results of a survey of Italian social workers. The survey originated in a project run at the School of Social Work between 2005 and 2008: 'Municipal individually-oriented social work in four Nordic capital areas' (FAS 2005-2008). The questionnaire is about social workers' workers' conditions, about their views on so

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-present-italy - 2025-12-27

Alexandru Panican, researcher from the School of Social Work at Lund University and Richard Ulmestig from Linnaeus University has published an article about the Swedish welfare state and social assistance in the prestigious Citizenship Studies Journal. In the article Social Rights in the shadow of poor relief - Social Assistance in the universal Swedish welfare state the researchers analyse social

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/researchers-published-prestigious-journal - 2025-12-27

Job search safari, Learning Swedish and How does Sweden's social insurance agency work... Don't miss out on all the International Citizen Hub Lund activities this autumn. International Citizen Hub Lund International Citizen Hub Lund has a role to enlighten, coordinate, and connect international employees and their families to Sweden’s various authorities, local associations, educational institutio

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/new-sweden-heres-your-guide - 2025-12-27

During the summer, Kristina Lång's research received a lot of attention in the media, nationally as well as internationally. The study showed that AI-assisted breast cancer screening is a safe alternative to radiologists' double-reading, reducing the workload of the overburdened profession by as much as 44 percent. We asked Kristina Lång about her experiences. Also, tips on how to increase outreac

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/increasing-outreach-cancer-research-about-ai-assisted-screening-attracts-media - 2025-12-27

Web stats show an increased use of the internal web in employees' daily work. The new Intramed has made a difference for the employees at the Faculty of Medicine, the LU Staff pages conclude. It became clear that members of staff were not satisfied with the existing IT environment, which was splintered, and that email was the primary channel for internal communication. Several of those interviewed

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/summing-new-intramed-provided-sharpened-internal-communication-and-reduced-e-mail-flow - 2025-12-27

How should undergraduate students and PhD students get basic knowledge about sustainable development? And how should the teachers and researchers of the faculty strengthen their compentency in sustainability issues? Magnus Sandberg, Senior Lecturer and leader of the faculty's working group for education and research for sustainability, explains. What do you want to achieve in your working group? –

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/how-integrate-sustainable-development-your-teaching - 2025-12-27

September 28 is the official launch of SciLifeLab Lund, a part of a major governmental investment in national research infrastructure. 200 participants are expected to Forum Medicum to get a glimpse of the fantastic research resources and capabilities available through SciLifeLab, both in Lund and at the partnering sites. Lund is one of the four new sites that were established in 2022. The sites i

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/kick-scilifelab-lund - 2025-12-27

The Board of the Faculty of Medicine (MFS) has held a meeting. At the beginning of the year, a commission was appointed under the leadership of Nils Danielsen to review the possibilities of making further savings in CCM (our animal department) due to high costs. During the board meeting, Nils Danielsen presented the conclusions in the final report submitted by the commission for further considerat

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/report-faculty-board-meeting-20-september - 2025-12-27

Due date for the application is 25 September. When universities employ Associate Senior Lecturers (BULs), these often have very varied conditions for their research. Some have substantial support from faculty funding and some have extensive external support. However, most of them do not have large research funds initially and the money that is available cannot always be used for their "own" projec

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/royal-physiographic-society-announcing-special-bul-grant - 2025-12-27

With this call Swelife wants to help Sweden remain a world leader in life science. The goal is to promote renewal and innova-tion for a more value-creating healthcare and increase growth in the life science sector in Sweden. With this call, Swelife wants to help Sweden remain a world leader in life science. The goal is to promote renewal and innovation for more value-creating healthcare and to inc

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-swelifes-collaborative-projects-better-health - 2025-12-27

By using the faculty's data storage and handling platform, LUSEC, you reduce the risk of data breaches and espionage that can have catastrophic consequences. The service is offered at cost. "The more people who use LUSEC, the cheaper it will be for everyone," says Lars Nilsson, IT engineer at the Division for Support for Research and Learning. Why are you now charging for LUSEC? "LUSEC was origina

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/lusec-reduces-risk-data-breaches-and-spying - 2025-12-27

On January 1, 2024, a new management will take office at our faculty. The Dean and Deputy Dean shall be elected. They, in turn, appoint vice-deans with specific responsibilities. The Nomination Committee has proposed Maria Björkqvist as Dean and Jonas Larsson as Deputy Dean. How does it feel to have been nominated? "We are very honored, and it feels exciting and challenging at the same time".   Wh

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/nominated-dean-couple-we-complement-each-other - 2025-12-27

For major breakthroughs in, among other things, nanoscience and neuroscience. Prize sum: one million USD per area. No later than October 1.     More on the Prize and how to nominate To the Kavli Prize web site.

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/kavli-prize-2024-time-nominate-candidates - 2025-12-27