Published 24 January 2025 Lund University is listed at place 36 in the world-ranking for law. Times Higher Education (THE) is one of the three leading international rankings of universities and higher education institutions, and it is based on 18 indicators in teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The THE ranking of universities for 2025 was published in October last ye

https://www.law.lu.se/article/excellent-placement-law-lund-university-times-higher-educations-world-ranking-2025 - 2025-04-01

Published 29 January 2025 Professors Marta Pertegás Sender and Jeremias Adams-Prassl have been awarded honorary doctorates by the Faculty. Professor Marta Pertegás Sender. Image Alba Dewit Pertegás Marta Pertegás SenderProfessor Marta Pertegás Sender, Maastricht University, started her career in academia as a doctoral student in Leuven and obtained her PhD in 2000 with a thesis on cross-border pat

https://www.law.lu.se/article/honorary-doctorates-2025 - 2025-04-01

Published 4 February 2025 The new Danish royal coat of arms. Artist: Ronny Skov Andersen. Professor Martin Sunnqvist explains how the changes in the Danish royal coat of arms puts an end to an old Swedish-Danish conflict. Denmark's King Frederik X recently announced a change to the royal coat of arms. This put an end to a 17th century Swedish-Danish conflict, according to Martin Sunnqvist, who wri

https://www.law.lu.se/article/denmarks-new-royal-coat-arms-marks-end-400-year-old-long-conflict - 2025-04-01

Published 19 April 2023 The application process and assessment criteria have been revised for this year’s application. Lecturers, senior lecturers and professors on indefinite-term contracts, or associate senior lecturers, at the Faculty of Social Sciences are entitled to apply to the Faculty teaching academy to have their teaching skills assessed and be admitted as a Qualified Teaching Practition

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/applying-assessment-teaching-skills - 2025-04-01

Published 24 April 2023 This autumn, the faculty is again offering the course Gender and diversity in teaching and learning. The course is a part of the qualifying training in the field of teaching and learning in higher education for teaching staff at the Faculty of Social Sciences. It provides a space to analyse gender and diversity both within the university as an organisation and in teaching a

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-opportunity-take-course-gender-and-diversity - 2025-04-01

Published 5 May 2023 The building will get a new entrance facing north. Now it is time for the renovation of Gamla lungkliniken. The building will be closed from 1 July 2023 to 31 March 2024.  During the renovation, the house will get a new ventilation system and a slightly remodeled entrance facing north. In addition, individual workrooms will be refurbished and windows will be renovated. The bui

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Published 8 May 2023 The process of appointing the dean, deputy dean and Faculty Board continues and interviews are now being held with the candidates nominated as dean and deputy dean. The last day to nominate candidates was 20 April. Since then, the faculty's nomination committee has invited the candidates nominated as dean or deputy dean to interviews. The interviews are held in the first two w

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/interviews-positions-dean-and-deputy-dean - 2025-04-01

Published 11 May 2023 LU Byggnad has recently decided on new names for some of the buildings in the Paradis area. The change is made to create a uniform naming scheme within the area. The building names in the Paradis area have previously not followed the same template and the same building could have different names in different systems. After a review of the names, LU Byggnad is therefore introd

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-building-names-paradis-area - 2025-04-01

Published 15 May 2023 The Faculty Board has decided on a changed order for the projects within the building project Campus Paradis. The next step will be a renovation of Gamla kirurgen. According to the preliminary schedule and project plan for stage 3 of the building project, the Centre for Social Sciences - Cesam - would be the next project after Gamla lungkliniken (building G). The Cesam projec

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/gamla-kirurgen-next-facultys-building-project - 2025-04-01

Published 23 May 2023 AI generated image of a methods workshop by Gencraft. The Faculty of Social Sciences will offer five Autumn Workshops in Methods and Methodologies this year. These are for teachers, researchers, and PhD candidates who desire to continue to broaden and deepen their knowledge of research methods. You may sign up for more than one workshop: their schedules do not conflict.  All

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/autumn-methods-workshops-2023 - 2025-04-01

Published 24 May 2023 The nominating committee has now completed its work on proposing candidates for the positions as dean, deputy dean and faculty board members. The election will be held after the summer, in September. The nominating committee proposes Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt as dean and Björn Badersten as deputy dean for the next term of office, 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026. The followi

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/nominating-committees-proposal-dean-deputy-dean-and-faculty-board-members - 2025-04-01

Published 8 June 2023 Three areas have been granted faculty funding to consolidate, develop and give visibility to strong, interdisciplinary research areas at the Faculty of Social Sciences through various activities. The faculty management has assessed that three of the areas that applied for funding in the faculty's call have the potential to achieve the criteria for a strong interdisciplinary r

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/they-receive-funding-develop-strong-research-areas - 2025-04-01

Published 19 June 2023 Lund University has the opportunity to nominate up to three candidates for participation in STINT Teaching Sabbatical every year. The Faculty of Social Sciences and other faculties are given the opportunity to nominate two candidates each. The nominee must be a PhD, employed and well-established in Lund University's activities. About the programme STINT Teaching Sabbatical i

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/time-apply-stint-teaching-sabbatical-0 - 2025-04-01

Published 31 August 2023 On 31 August, the elections at the Faculty of Social Sciences start and it will be possible for all eligible voters at the faculty to log in to the electoral system and cast their vote. Look out for the call for elections sent by email to all faculty staff. If you are entitled to vote, you can log on to lu.easyvote.se until 15 September at 23.59 and cast your vote.  See wh

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/time-elect-dean-pro-dean-and-faculty-board - 2025-04-01

Published 5 September 2023 The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were launched internally in LUCRIS last week. Login to see which goals, if any, have been added to your research. Log in to LUCRIS - lucris.lu.se (new window) There might be SDGs added to your research in the following sections:  •    Your public profile  •    Your projects •    Your research outputs/publications The informati

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/has-your-research-received-any-sustainable-development-goals-sdg-lucris - 2025-04-01

Published 19 September 2023 Agnes Andersson is proposed as Dean and Björn Badersten as Pro-Dean. Agnes is currently Pro-Dean at the faculty and Björn is Head of the Department of Political Science. The faculty's election of Dean, Pro-Dean and Board for the period 1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026 is now closed and the vote count is completed. Agnes Andersson is proposed as Dean and Björn Badersten

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/we-have-result - 2025-04-01

Published 3 October 2023 On 21 September, the Faculty Board decided to adopt the project plan for the project "Organisational development towards fewer and larger units at the Faculty of Social Sciences". The project plan contains, among other things, a description of a number of impact goals that are expected to be achieved through the formation of fewer and more similarly sized units.  – All imp

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/project-plan-organisational-project-decided - 2025-04-01

Published 10 October 2023 The Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) offer a course for those who are planning to apply for docent (associate professor/reader) in the near future. The course is seminar-based and designed to be inspirational, but also to provide useful knowledge about the research process and academia in general. Participants are also provided

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/becoming-docent-joint-course-faculty-social-sciences-and-lusem-0 - 2025-04-01

Published 17 October 2023 Teachers and PhD students are now invited to apply to courses for teaching in higher education taught in the spring. The application deadline is 28 November. The Division for Higher Education Development (AHU) offers the following courses: Courses in English Teaching and learning in higher education – online Teaching and learning in higher education – blended course Cours

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/time-apply-courses-teaching-higher-education-spring-2024 - 2025-04-01

Published 18 October 2023 The by-election is for a member of the Faculty Board for the period 1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026. All faculty staff entitled to vote and nominate are invited to nominate candidates by 25 October. Åsa Lundqvist has been offered and accepted the position of vice-dean for research and doctoral studies. This means that she will leave her position as a member of the Facul

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/election-nominate-candidates-faculty-board - 2025-04-01