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Each year the Faculty of Social Sciences announces a number of recurring grants that are available to apply for certain categories of faculty staff. Also, please note the deadlines concerning appointments and courses for teaching in higher education. GrantsApplication monthsThe application months are to be used to draw up research applications. PhD holders employed until further notice as senior l

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/important-application-dates-2024 - 2025-12-25

At its last meeting, the Faculty Board decided on changes in the promotion process from senior lecturer to professor. Among other things, an annual application round with a deadline of 15 February will be introduced. A permanently employed senior lecturer may be promoted to professor if there is an operational need and if the person has the qualifications for employment as a professor. A request t

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-procedures-promotion-professor - 2025-12-25

The libraries at Lund University need your help to test the tool BrowZine. Try it out before 19 March! BrowZine is a tool that allows you to easily browse, read, and keep up-to-date with current scholarly journal content on any device. BrowZine is available as a desktop version and also available as an app.Here's how to do itFrom your computer:Simply go to https://browzine.com/libraries/1606 to st

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/try-browzine-tool-organizing-and-reading-scientific-journals - 2025-12-25

At Lund University's grand annual ceremony, the Student Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Oriana Quaglietta Bernal, Department of Sociology. Oriana Quaglietta Bernal completed her PhD last year and was surprised that she has already been awarded the prize. At the award ceremony, held at the University’s annual academic ceremony on 26 January, she was joined by a Nobel laureate and

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/oriana-quaglietta-bernal-awarded-honourable-teacher-prize - 2025-12-25

The election will run from 7 to 21 February. Information about the election has been sent by email to all staff at the faculty. All those entitled to vote can log in to Easyvote and submit their vote during 7-21 February.The election is for 3 representatives of teaching staff with research expertise, and 1 representative of other staff. In all elections, you have the possibility of voting for anot

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-electoral-college - 2025-12-25

We need your nominations by 26 February! The Faculty of Social Sciences constituency is now invited to nominate candidates to the new Nominating Committee for the term 2024-03-01 – 2027-02-28.The Nominating Committee shall consist of:  •    Five representatives of teaching staff with research expertise •    Two representatives of other staff•    One alternate representative of teaching staff with

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/nominate-candidates-faculty-nominating-committee-0 - 2025-12-25

On 7 March, Lina Wedin will begin as head of the Faculty Office. During March, she will gradually replace Malou Engberg de Carvalho, who will retire at the end of the month. A warm welcome to the Faculty of Social Sciences! How does it feel to soon start your new job as head of the Faculty Office?It’s exciting to be given responsibility for such an important organisation. Since I like to meet new

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-head-faculty-office-incoming - 2025-12-25

The election to the Electoral College is now completed and a public count of votes took place at the Faculty Office yesterday. The following persons have been elected as the Faculty of Social Sciences' representatives in the Electoral College:Representative of teaching staff with research expertise:Elia Psouni, associate professor, Department of PsychologyBjörn Johnson, professor, School of Social

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/election-result-faculty-representatives-electoral-college - 2025-12-25

It is time to review and update your information in LUCRIS. Update your profile, review your projects, and register your publications from 2024. Also, please consider adding your ORCID to LUCRIS (via Lucat) if you haven't already done so! Present your researchKeeping your information up-to-date in LUCRIS is important because:Data from LUCRIS might be re-used, for instance, on the Faculty of Social

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/dont-forget-update-lucris - 2025-12-25

About a year has passed since the Faculty Board deciced that the faculty will move towards fewer and larger units over the next six years. The autumn was devoted to anchoring and knowledge gathering, and a first merger is now being planned. Since the project plan was approved last autumn, the project group has met with all department management and participated in many staff and board meetings to

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/organisation-project-enters-new-phase - 2025-12-25

The election will run from 6 to 20 March. Information about the election has been sent by email to all staff at the faculty. All those entitled to vote can log in to Easyvote and submit their vote during 6-20 March.The election is for 5 representatives of teaching staff with research expertise, 1 substitute representative of teaching staff with research expertise, and 2 representatives of other st

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/time-elect-nominating-committee - 2025-12-25

Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. As usual, researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences participate in several interesting events. Come and listen to your colleagues! The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness and for inspiring

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/social-scientists-sustainability-week-8-13-april - 2025-12-25

Professor Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat ett enkelt test som ökar chanserna för graviditet och samtidigt minskar risken för biverkningar i samband med provrörsbefruktning. För att ta testet till marknaden startades bolaget Dx4Life AB tillsammans med LU Holding. Nu har bolaget stängt sin första runda om 6,4 miljoner med Gobia Enterprises i spetsen. Dx4Lifes nyligen ut

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/dx4life-vill-oka-chanserna-ofrivilligt-barnlosa-par-att-bli-foraldrar-tar-64-msek - 2025-12-25

LU Innovation System AB blir LU Holding AB. Holdingbolaget LU Innovation System AB byter namn till LU Holding AB. Förändringen innebär enbart ett namnbyte, verksamhet och ledning av bolaget är detsamma som tidigare.För mer information kontakta christine [dot] widstrand [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Christine Widstrand), vice VD och portföljansvarig.

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/holdingbolaget-byter-namn - 2025-12-25

PluvioFlow, ett banbrytande teknikföretag specialiserat på modellering av översvämningar, tillkännager att Jonatan Green Brzezinski kliver in som ny VD och att Inriver-grundaren Johan Billgren går in som styrelseordförande. Samtidigt lanserar bolaget ett pilotprogram efter att ha mottagit mycket positiv feedback från marknaden. ”Det känns superkul att kliva in och komma igång”, säger Jonatan Green

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/pluvioflow-vill-oka-samhallets-resiliens-mot-oversvamningar-tar-ny-vd-och-lanserar-pilotprogram-0 - 2025-12-25

För att möta de unika behov som Sveriges innovativa och snabbväxande startups och scaleups har, ska ett nytt samarbete etablera Sweden Startup Nation. Initiativet syftar till att bli en oberoende, nationell kunskapskälla som förbättrar förståelsen för startups och scaleups och deras ekosystem genom att samla in, analysera och tillgängliggöra data om målgruppen. Initiativet leds av BLING, FUHS (För

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/ny-satsning-ska-starka-sveriges-startups-och-scaleups - 2025-12-25

Di Digitals Viktor Ström hittar ett mycket gott exempel på kommersialisering av forskning. I Di Digitalpodden hittar journalisten Viktor Ström en gemensam nämnare för flera skånska startup-jättar: Lunds universitet. Och en forskargrupp står bakom en särskilt imponerande samling bolag!Hör avsnittet på Acast.   

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/di-digitalpodden-om-startups-fran-lunds-universitet - 2025-12-25

Arthro Therapeutics inleder samarbete med Region Skåne och Västmanlands landsting. Startupbolaget Arthro Therapeutics, med utöver LU Innovation även Spotify-veteranen Sophia Bendz och startup-profilen Hampus Jakobsson i ägarkretsen, inleder ett samarbete med Region Skåne och Västmanlands landsting.Läs hela artikeln på Di Digital 

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/fran-di-digital-genombrott-svenskt-medtech-bolag - 2025-12-25

LAGET – MER ÄN JAGET. Sträva inte efter perfektion, ta hellre ett litet steg. Och våga ställa den riktigt svåra frågan. Annika Lindström, innovationsutvecklare vid LU Innovation, ger råd till blivande entreprenörer. För att ”lyckas” förverkliga en idé är det mest grundläggande i mina ögon att verkligen vara driven av viljan att lösa ett problem och att skapa värde för en slutanvändare eller kund. 

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/bli-inte-kar-i-din-egen-ide - 2025-12-25

LU Innovation introduces a Pre-Seed Program within Life Science – funding up to 400 000 SEK per project. The program targets research projects in the life science sector with a commercial/innovation potential. To explore this potential, activities outside the scope of existing research project can be funded by the Exploratory Pre-Seed Program.Granted proposals receive funding from 100 000 up to 40

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/exploratory-pre-seed-program - 2025-12-25