Published 18 December 2024 The Faculty of Social Sciences is now planning a new course for those who teach social science research methods and want to explore new ways to develop their pedagogy and strengthen students' learning. The course "Teaching and Learning Research Methods in Social Sciences" will be both practically and theoretically grounded in order to provide the conditions for reflectin

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/do-you-want-develop-your-skills-teacher-research-methods - 2025-02-09

Published 14 January 2025 The Faculty's pilot of transcription using the Whisper AI tool has worked very well, with many hundreds of hours of interview material transcribed so far. Until there is a university-wide solution, we are therefore continuing to offer the tool through the Department of Psychology. About the offerThe Department of Psychology has purchased a powerful computer to be used for

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/whisper-transcription-tool-still-available-spring-term - 2025-02-09

By helena [dot] lind [at] sam [dot] lu [dot] se (Helena Lind) - published 3 February 2025 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 us

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/important-application-dates-2025 - 2025-02-09

Published 28 August 2024 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

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-guide-makes-it-easier-researchers-do-things-correctly - 2025-02-09

Published 28 August 2024 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 - 2025-02-09

Published 28 August 2024 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 - 2025-02-09

Published 29 August 2024 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 - 2025-02-09

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 10 September 2024 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 experime

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/behavioral-economics-beliefs-and-misperceptions-field-experiments-registers-and-surveys - 2025-02-09

Published 11 September 2024 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 explor

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-steve-berggren-clausen - 2025-02-09

Published 11 September 2024 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 - 2025-02-09

Published 11 September 2024 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 Febru

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/salary-review-starts-soon - 2025-02-09

Published 11 September 2024 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 R

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-international-staff-members-were-welcomed-new-academic-year - 2025-02-09

Published 12 September 2024 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 abou

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/staff-exchange-see-world - 2025-02-09

Published 23 September 2024 On 27 September he will be defending his doctoral dissertation: Roots Across the Atlantic: Social Networks and Economic Outcomes from the Swedish Mass Migration to the United States, 1880–1920. But before that we wanted to get to know a little bit more about Marcos Castillo and his work ad the department of Economic History. You are about to defend your thesis, what is

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-marcos-castillo - 2025-02-09

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 24 September 2024 There is an online course provided by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (only available in Swedish at the moment). The course is described as follows:As part of the government mandate to increase knowledge about the regulations for ethical review, the Swedish Ethical Review Authority has decided to des

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/kurs-i-etikprovning-ethical-review-course-0 - 2025-02-09

Published 24 September 2024 Valeria in action at her "spikning" Diving headlong into the matter of economic inequalities in Kenya, Economic History doctoral student Valeria Lukkari looks at what factors drive these disparities. You are about to defend your thesis “Economic Disparities in Colonial Kenya – Income Inequality and Wage Differentiation”, what is the thesis about?My thesis project recons

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-valeria-lukkari - 2025-02-09

Published 25 September 2024 Jörgen Carlsson and Niklas Sandell, researchers and lecturers in accounting and corporate finance at LUSEM are receiving the CH Witt Memorial Award for their article in the journal Balans, about how the debate around group accounting sounded 30 years ago. What was special about the debate back then compared to now? "The major difference between the debate then and now,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/winners-ch-witts-award-lusem - 2025-02-09

Published 25 September 2024 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, located in the Frescati area in Stockholm The call for applications from young Swedish economists to attend the 8th Lindau meeting of the laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is now open. This information is from the KVA website.8th Lindau meeting in Economic Sciences – kva.seDurin

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/8th-lindau-meeting-economic-sciences - 2025-02-09

Published 26 September 2024 The employment agency Academic Work conducts the Young Professional Attraction Index (YPAI) survey annually, in close collaboration with polling firm Kantar. Their survey asks young people in various professional categories which employer they would most like to work for, and what makes an employer attractive.Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lund-university-swedens-eighth-most-attractive-employer - 2025-02-09

Published 26 September 2024 Human Rights is one of Lund University’s five profile areas. The profile area aims for excellence in research, education, and external collaboration – nationally and globally – in human rights as an interdisciplinary field. One goal is to facilitate the initiation of new research ideas with potential to secure external funding. Another goal is to build a well-connected

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/call-seed-money-within-profile-area-human-rights - 2025-02-09