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During this year's inagural Africa Day, organised by Lund University, Fredrik Söderbaum was invited as keynote speaker. In addition to his speech, the conference also brought together researchers from Lund University who presented their ongoing work in Africa. Fredrik Söderbaum is Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies (SGS) at university of Gothenburg. He is a
Take part and run the Lundaloppet together with your colleagues. As usual, Lund University will pay the registration fee on behalf of employees. Lundaloppet is Skåne’s biggest race where people of all ages gather to run or walk. Choose if you would like to run 5 kilometres or 10. “It is great that so many LU employees choose to take part, and we are hoping to break a record this year,” says Univer
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/run-lundaloppet-6-may - 2025-12-22
The first round of admissions to this spring’s courses and programmes is now complete. In total, 12,996 students have been offered a place, which equates to around a third of the total number of applicants (35,842). Of those admitted, around 1,632 have got onto programmes, while 11,552 have been offered places on freestanding courses. Approximately 218 people have been admitted to both a programme
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-13000-students-admitted-spring-semester - 2025-12-22
SANR is an annual conference about all things South Asian. It offers a platform for Nordic scholars of South Asia to present their research and meet other researchers. It is particularly intended to be a supportive meeting point for emerging scholars. After initial meetings in Copenhagen in 2017 and Oslo in 2018, Uppsala will be the host in 2019 with the event taking place June 11-12 at the Swed
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-announcement-south-asia-across-nordic-region-2019 - 2025-12-21
Owasim Akram has been awarded a funding of SEK 873 803 by the Expert Group of Aid Studies/Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys (EBA). It has been proposed in partnership with Örebro University, Lund University and University of Bath in the UK. He is the lead researcher in this project. This project will commence immediately after his defence (which will occur in late December this year). This project
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/congratulations-sweah-phd-owasim-akram-recieving-both-funding-and-postdoctoral-grant - 2025-12-21
“Evaluating for a Transition – Advancing evaluation of research and policy for a more sustainable energy system and society” is the title of Sofie’s dissertation. How can evaluation of policy instruments and research initiatives support large-scale transitions towards a more sustainable energy system and society? This question is addressed in this thesis, which focuses on how to advance evaluation
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/doctoral-defence-sofie-sandin-may-21 - 2025-12-21
Lund university's employment act requires at least five weeks of course work for academic positions. This requirement is met by taking Teaching and learning in higher education followed by Course design in higher education. Doctoral students who teach are required, at least, to take the first of these courses. In order to supervise doctoral students a course on supervision is required. In AHU's ca
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/courses-higher-education-teaching-and-learning - 2025-12-22
Welcome to visit the University during the autumn holidays! We offer everything from ghost walks to fossil shows and tours about the mysteries of the universe. The Botanical GardenGo on a guided tour among witch plants, trees with magical properties, Chinese cat poop and evil fruits. Or help make a scary magic potion.Magical and strange in Botan – botan.lu.se (in Swedis)Botan's opening hours and m
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/autumn-holidays-university-0 - 2025-12-22
Few research publications reach outside the realm of academia and even fewer make an impact on sustainability debates and societal issues. Kimberly Nicholas’ research on lifestyle choices to reduce your carbon footprint is unique in its reach and impact on society. Her research started with a question, asked by friends and students: what can I do for the climate that really makes a difference? Kim
Veterinarian in charge Anders Forslid is retiring after 30 years working to improve the welfare of research animals at Lund University. He has witnessed a paradigm shift in animal health and animal experiments, and the way animal testing and humans’ obligations are viewed has changed. When Anders Forslid started out as a laboratory animal veterinarian at Lund University, he received a fairly cool
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-we-are-going-have-animal-testing-then-we-have-do-it-well - 2025-12-22
SwedNanoTech reports that six new board members entered the Board at the Annual Meeting on April 4, 2018. New to the board is NanoLund member and founder Lars Samuelson. Lars Montelius, Director General för International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal and a NanoLund Affiliated member was reelected to the board together with Sarah Fredriksson from PULS Invest. Sarah is member
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-board-members-swednanotech - 2025-12-21
