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Last week our Professor in Economic History, Sylvia Schwaag Serger was appointed as new president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).With an extraordinarily strong background in research and innovation her expertise has been called upon by the European Commission, the OECD, and the World Bank to name but a few.Congrats Sylvia!Read more on IVA's homepage 

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sylvia-schwaag-serger-new-president-iva-0 - 2025-11-07

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the tips below, so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/what-bear-mind-summer - 2025-11-07

Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) has now received its reaccreditation through both the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and The Association of MBAs (AMBA). Thereby, the School holds its position in the ranks of top business schools worldwide awarded with a “Triple Crown”. The triple accreditation, or the Triple Crown, is the combination of accreditations held b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-reaffirms-its-triple-crown-accreditation - 2025-11-07

It is with great sadness that we today fly the flag at half-mast on the occasion of a memorial tribute to Antonio Marañon, teacher at the Department of Statistics at Lund University School of Economics and Management who passed away earlier this summer. Our thoughts are with the family and closest relatives.Det är med stor sorg vi idag flaggar på halv stång med anledning av en minnestund för Anton

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/flag-half-mast-today - 2025-11-07

“External engagement is at the centre of what happens at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), be it with partner companies, NGOs or alumni. It’s a bridge between these levels and the students, researchers and teachers at our school and a high priority of our’s”, says Anna France, relationship manager at LUBS. Together with her colleague David Gardner, operations manager of external engagement,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leeds-comes-lund - 2025-11-07

Most researchers want to do things correctly and much of the time this is straightforward: you do not need instructions in order to understand that you are to write your own text and not plagiarise others. But not all rules and processes are as obvious and some change over time.In order to make it easier for researchers to do things correctly, Lund University has produced a one-stop guide: “A rese

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-guide-makes-it-easier-researchers-do-things-correctly - 2025-11-07

Do you want to take your research further? Innovation developer Cecilia Jädert at LU Innovation encourages researchers to come and present their idea. Register for a workshop no later than 9 September. Also, read about the Faculty researchers who got help to start a business.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/innovation-workshop-researchers-how-think-entrepreneur-0 - 2025-11-07

Are you a university lecturer, teacher, student teacher, or researcher in educational science? Or just generally interested in school issues and higher education? You are warmly welcome to this fall’s Higher Seminars in Educational Science.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/discover-falls-seminars-educational-science - 2025-11-07

Dags för nya inspirerande och lärorika kulturhändelser för alla universitetets medarbetare. Som aviserades i våras erbjuds fyra workshoppar under hösten som en fortsättning på förra höstens stora kulturmötet på Skissernas museum.Läa mer på LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/kultursamverkan-bjuder-till-inspirerande-workshopserie - 2025-11-07

We are pleased to announce a course organized by LUSEM in collaboration with colleagues from Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Titled Behavioral Economics of Beliefs and Misperceptions, the course will explore key topics through a series of online and hybrid lectures. The course covers field experiments, the use of registers, and surveys—offering deep insights into how beliefs and mispercepti

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/behavioral-economics-beliefs-and-misperceptions-field-experiments-registers-and-surveys - 2025-11-07

After nailing his thesis “Climate, Culture, and History – Essays in Development Economics” to the wall at LUSEM, Steve Berggren-Clausen is gearing up for his defense on 4 October. You have been writing your thesis at the department of Economics and now it is on the wall just a few steps from Café Holger. Please tell us in your own words what it is about.My thesis explores three root causes of glob

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-steve-berggren-clausen - 2025-11-07

On 15 April this year, digital degree certificates were introduced at the University and a considerable improvement has already been noted. It has become faster, more secure and more efficient, which has meant a reduced workload for many staff members and shorter waiting times for students.Learn more at LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/digital-degree-certificates-save-time - 2025-11-07

This year’s salary review date is 1 October. This is the date on which your new salary will apply and from which your new salary will be paid retroactively when the University pays the new salaries.According to the timetable drawn up by the University, which has been presented to the employee organisations, it is estimated that the new salaries will be paid out in February 2025. Read more on LU St

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/salary-review-starts-soon - 2025-11-07

The University has started a new initiative that involves inviting its new staff from far and wide to joint activities during the year.New international staff members and their families were recently welcomed to the new academic year at an event in the Main University Building. Specially invited staff members enjoyed a get-together and refreshments with music by Albin Rickman’s Trio and students f

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-international-staff-members-were-welcomed-new-academic-year - 2025-11-07

Are things the same, but different or just plain different? How do students enroll? What is it really like to be a teacher or administrator at a business school in Spain, or South Africa for that matter? With grants such as Erasmus + we actually have a chance to find out for ourselves. Would you like to see first-hand how your counterpart at another university goes about their daily work life, go

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/staff-exchange-see-world - 2025-11-07

Free to Think is an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. The report explores concerning trends in attacks on higher education communities around the world with the aims of raising awareness and urging diverse state and non-state stakeholders to join us in protecting and promoting academic freedom.Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/webinar-current-state-academic-freedom-world - 2025-11-07

This year, the Academy highlights a variety of research projects from Swedish universities, under the theme ‘Technology in the service of humanity - innovation through interdisciplinary science’. In total, 103 projects from 22 different universities and research institutes in Sweden were selected. Lund University had the third-highest number of projects after KTH Royal Institute of Technology and

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/nine-projects-are-included-list-ongoing-swedish-research-projects-potential-create-societal-benefit - 2025-11-07

Markus is getting ready for the defense of his dissertation "Transforming Foundations: Structural Change and Development Dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa (1960–2024)" on 22 November. He has been doing his research at the department of Economic History. You are about to defend your thesis, what is it about?The thesis explores sub-Saharan Africa’s recent development dynamics in a long-run historical c

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-bertus-markus-melles - 2025-11-07

It’s a new role and we got to ask her a few questions about it, and also a little more about Emelie. How long have you worked at Lund University, and how did you become the faculty’s data steward?I have been working as a librarian at the LUSEM Library at Lund University since 2022. Becoming the faculty’s data steward was likely a matter of timing and duties, as is often the case. I was asked becau

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/emelie-estling-data-steward-lusem - 2025-11-07

The Administrative Prize for 2025 has been awarded to Head of Finance Charlotte Solberg, Department of Physics, and Curator Jenny Bergman, Historical Museum.The University’s Administrative Prize is an annual award for outstanding administrative efforts of an innovative nature that have contributed to the University’s development, or for exceptional service and efficiency. With this prize, the Univ

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/winners-universitys-administrative-prize-2025-announced - 2025-11-07