By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 24 May 2024 The Alliance of World Scientists awards the Earth Planet Awards. Kimberly Nicholas is one of the recipients 2024. Kimberly Nicholas, Asssociate Professor at LUCSUS, is one of six recipients of the 2024 Planet Earth Award, a prestigous prize which acknowledges individuals who champion life on Earth. These individual

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/associate-professor-kimberly-nicholas-recipient-2024-planet-earth-award - 2025-01-29

Published 6 November 2017 LUCSUS Professor Lennart Olsson is one of the participants in the upcoming seminar: Land: a Common Good, or a Good Investment? organised 9th November by LUCSUS, Latinamerikagrupperna, Svalorna Indien Bangladesh and Lund Inter Faculty Sustainability Network.Ahead of his participation, he discusses the most important issues surrounding land today, and reflects on why land i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/find-ways-harnessing-increasing-interest-land-sustainable-development-lennart-olsson-reflects-ahead - 2025-01-29

Published 11 April 2023 Medvetenskapens Hus is a cross-faculty initiative that aims to accommodate creative meetings between science and human science. The activities are to be based on the complex issues of our time which in a natural way affect all faculties and subject areas. Medvetenskapens Hus highlights the importance of insights above the formation of opinions and creates conditions for joi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medvetenskapens-hus-interdisciplinary-focus-human-science - 2025-01-30

Published 11 October 2023 Today, we are signing a university-wide collaboration agreement with UC Berkeley. This opens the door to new collaboration opportunities for the entire University. From 11 to 13 October, University management will host a unique visit from UC Berkeley. Among the guests are representatives for research, education, international issues, innovation and entrepreneurship. The a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-agreement-uc-berkeley-provides-new-opportunities - 2025-01-30

By elin [dot] engman [at] ldc [dot] lu [dot] se (Elin Engman) - published 21 June 2022 The Vice-Chancellor has decided that the first part of the ‘Coordinated examination service’ project will start with a budget of SEK 13.8 million. The project is tasked with initiating coordinated administration and scheduling, organising a pool of exam invigilators and starting work on the construction of a ded

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-efficient-exam-management-coordinated-examination-service-project - 2025-01-30

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Published 31 August 2021 In the autumn, I hope we in the university management can focus on the core issues that we want to drive forward. It has been a very unusual start for the new University Management, strongly characterised by the ongoing pandemic. I hope that developments now go in the right direction and that within the University Management we can focus more on the core issues that we wan

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/intensified-focus-strategic-issues-education - 2025-01-30

By Charlotte [dot] Hedin [at] hr [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Hedin) - published 10 October 2021 On 30 September, the vice-chancellor decided on updated guidelines for remote work for technical and administrative (TA) staff. The guidelines enter into force on 1 October and replace the previous guidelines from 2019. The guidelines apply to employees at Lund University with the exception of those in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-guidelines-remote-work-technical-and-administrative-staff - 2025-01-30

Published 11 December 2018 SASNET is an interdisciplinary network for the production and dissemination of research, education, and information about South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). SASNET produces and disseminates knowledge and research about South Asia in three principal ways. First, SASNET produces knowledge about South Asia through r

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-sasnet - 2025-01-30

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 30 September 2019 Ulrika Sandén, taking a break from driving her motorcycle. Photo:Kennet Ruona. She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “C

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2025-01-29

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 19 March 2023 Climate risks are cross-boundary, cross-scale, and multi-dimensional, and how we adapt to these risks requires an understanding of who and what is vulnerable, as well as who has the capability to adapt, notes researcher Murray Scown. A new research project led by LUCSUS is exploring how power and politics interse

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-lucsus-research-project-seeks-shed-light-power-dynamics-climate-change-adaptation - 2025-01-29

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Published 15 April 2019 Is Lund University doing the right things in the right way? That is the big question that project managers Freddy Ståhlberg and Mats Benner want RQ20 to answer (RQ stands for Research Quality). Photo: Kennet Ruona och Johan Bävman RQ20, the new major research quality evaluation, is underway! It is based on self-evaluations and will involve around 5 000 members of staff. In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-be-evaluated-without-grades-or-gold-stars - 2025-01-29

Published 4 June 2019 Gate to Harvard. Photo: Willy Gobetz Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, emailed suggesting I vi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2025-01-29

By malin [dot] sjoberg [at] sol [dot] lu [dot] se (Malin Sjöberg) - published 29 May 2020 "I never would have left Syria if it were not for the war. I had it all. I was teaching a couple of hours per week, working on my research and I had a beautiful farm with space for the whole family", Moheiddin Homeidi says. Four months ago, Professor Moheiddin Homeidi came to Lund from Syria as the first rese

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/syrian-linguist-given-sanctuary-lu - 2025-01-29

By evelina [dot] linden [at] luhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 8 November 2019 Curator Jenny Bergman is working to make the Historical Museum’s anatomical collection more ordered and accessible for research and education. Photo:Kennet Ruona What do human remains really have to do with a museum? When Lund University closed the Department of Anatomy of 1995, its collection of human

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-want-shine-light-dark-chapter - 2025-01-29

Published 6 March 2015 Lund University needs long-term strategies with clear priorities from the faculties of what type of research to invest in, agree the two new pro vice-chancellors Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen and Bo Ahrén. They also recognise the difficulty of achieving this at a university as comprehensive as Lund. “Our breadth is definitely our strength, but it can also present problems”, says

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-pro-vice-chancellors-want-strategic-investments-research - 2025-01-29

Published 13 October 2015 “We have to become much better at actively pursuing human rights issues in the public debate”, says Morten Kjaerum who since last spring is new director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund. His goal is to make the Institute more visible: within the University, locally, nationally and internationally. Morten Kjaerum at Raoul Wallenberg Institute LUM’s meeting with Mo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/raoul-wallenberg-institute-has-become-more-visible-public-debate - 2025-01-29

Published 16 November 2015 For many years, professor of Chinese Michael Schoenhals compiled a substantial archive containing material from the Cultural Revolution in China. He is now donating this unique collection to the Lund University Library. Michael Schoenhals. The Cultural Revolution took place from 1966 to 1976 – a period about which not much has been said for a long time in China. Michael

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/memories-cultural-revolution - 2025-01-29

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/humans-city-day-focusing-sustainable-urban-planning - 2025-01-29