Published 4 November 2020 Alexandra Hertz, business developer at LUCE, will devote 25 per cent of her working hours to collaborating with HT in the academic year 2020 –2021. Photo: Johan Persson. For the academic year 2020–2021, the Faculties of Humanities and Theology (HT) are funding 25 per cent of a business developer’s post at Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE). The aim is to broade

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-humanities-and-theology-embark-strategic-collaboration-commissioned-education - 2025-01-12

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 6 November 2020 Usually Annie Lindberg works all alone in the secret warehouse. Photo:Kennet Ruona Lund University has a world-class art collection worth hundreds of millions of Swedish crowns. But many of the less valuable paintings are currently hidden in attics and cellar storage rooms. “With the initiative

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/art-treasures-taken-out-hiding - 2025-01-12

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 9 November 2020 Anette Agardh, who led a research-based project on sexual harassment at LU. Photo: Jenny Loftrup There is nothing to indicate that sexual harassment is more common at the University than in other workplaces. However, different relationships of a dependent nature complicate the situation, such as

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/power-hierarchies-make-it-more-difficult-curb-sexual-harassment - 2025-01-12

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 6 November 2020 The students are not satisfied with the University's system for quality assurance of education. "It does not maintain the high and even quality that we would like", says Ella Sjöbeck, vice president of LUS. The students are not satisfied with the University's system for quality assurance of educatio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/students-criticise-quality-assurance-education - 2025-01-12

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 9 November 2020 Feiner and her research team will travel to six locations in the Mediterranean region and collect wall lizards to study. Photo:Johan Joelsson Using fishing-rods laced with dental floss and the Nobel-prize winning Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology, Nathalie Feiner wants to reveal some of the deepes

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lizards-key-evolutionary-mysteries - 2025-01-12

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maris Lindh) - published 9 November 2020 Daniel Göransson, one of the digital heroes, ensures the technology functions between the external assessors, Pro vice-chancellor Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen (far bottom left of the screen) and Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz (top right) Photo: M Lindh So say Mats Benner and Freddy Ståhlberg afte

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rq20-research-still-evaluated-despite-pandemic-obstacles - 2025-01-12

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 9 November 2020 “Replication studies are not seen as valuable, but researchers and society need to know which studies hold up”, says Burak Tunca. Photo: erol ahmed, evan smogor och hans reniers/unsplash Science should be able to be reproduced, but in reality this is a step that is often overlooked. Researcher Burak Tun

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-it-again-and-do-it-right - 2025-01-12

By gisela [dot] lindberg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Gisela Lindberg) - published 9 November 2020 Philip Warkander is Sweden's first ever PhD graduate in fashion studies. Photo: Kennet Ruona Workhorse Philip Warkander became Sweden’s first PhD graduate in Fashion Studies. He describes research in a new subject as continuously doubting – an approach he also applies to the academic communi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/doubting-fashion-pioneer - 2025-01-12

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 9 November 2020 Rasmus Eltén at his first road accident on the E6 north of Helsingborg. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter “Suicide threat. Young woman with self-harming behaviour who has taken an overdose of pills”. This is one of the emergency calls that come in during Rasmus Eltén’s ten-hour shift at the ambulance station in Hel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emergency-call - 2025-01-12

By jenny [dot] hansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Hansson) - published 13 November 2020 The vice-chancellor has decided to give the Sustainability Forum a broader remit with resources increased to SEK 4 million per year as of 2021, from the previous SEK 2 million annually. The Sustainability Forum will also be a permanent fixture, as sustainability issues are long-term. The most significant

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-forum-broadens-its-remit-include-students-and-education - 2025-01-12

Published 19 November 2020 With a new sustainability plan, Lund University management wants to increase the level of ambition and develop sustainability work within the organisation. Education and research are to increase their positive impact, while the University is to halve its contribution to climate change by 2023. In autumn 2019 a strategy for sustainable development was adopted. Now the sus

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-plan-approved - 2025-01-12

By Anna [dot] Johansson [at] rektor [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Johansson) - published 19 November 2020 Erik Renström Photo: Kennet Ruona The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund University’s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/erik-renstrom-be-vice-chancellor-lund-university - 2025-01-12

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 1 October 2019 LUnchtime international style! Darcy Wagner in a green T-shirt and than follows clockwise: Hani Alsafadi, Maria Öhlin, Qianren Jin, Srisayini Kidnapilla, Nika Gvazava and Deniz Bölükbas. Eighteen nationalities come together during lunch on level B10 at Biomedical Centre (BMC). There is a hotchpotch of di

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-meets-lunch - 2025-01-12

Published 8 October 2019 Calle Rosengren does research on boundaries between working and private life. Photo:Jenny Loftrup Who are you – a separator or an integrator? Mobiles and laptops have created a working life where it is possible to work anytime and anywhere. In a major study, work environment researchers have identified how seven different personality types set boundaries – or not – between

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/who-are-you-work - 2025-01-12

By maria [dot] lindh [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Lindh) - published 1 October 2019 Professor Mats Benner represents the the Electoral College. Photo: Johan Bävman The work to find a new vice-chancellor has begun. The recruitment committee, which now consists of equal numbers of members from the Electoral College and the University Board (with the chair of the board having the casti

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-new-vice-chancellor-underway - 2025-01-12

Published 1 October 2019 The Electoral College and University Board have now each appointed four members to the Recruitment Committee, which is to prepare proposals for the new vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor. The University Board decided to appoint its chair Jonas Hafström as chair of the Recruitment Committee. The other members are:Head of finance Ingrid Bengtsson-Rijavec, Malmö Unive

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/all-members-recruitment-committee-are-now-appointed-0 - 2025-01-12

Published 9 October 2019 New graphic service with illustrations and infographics are now available. Media-Tryck now has a full-time staff member to assist with illustrations and infographics – invaluable complements to tables and when you want to visualise and clarify facts, visions, statistics and results.See examples and read more on the Media-Tryck web page (in Swedish)

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-you-need-illustrations-explain-your-research - 2025-01-12

Published 17 October 2019 As previously stated, the National Government Service Centre (SSC), which manages the University’s payroll system Primula reported a case of unauthorised access to data in the system during the spring. A user at one of the SSC client authorities accessed personal data from Primula without authorisation to do so, but the breach was less extensive than initially indicated.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sscs-discovery-unauthorised-access-data-not-extensive-feared - 2025-01-12

Published 17 October 2019 Ingegerd Wirehed has been appointed to the newly established position of information security coordinator at the University. The position is based at LDC, LU’s central unit for IT services. However, Ingegerd explains that information security it not purely an IT issue, but rather a strategic area for the entire organisation in which information owners and others need to o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingegerd-wirehed-first-information-security-coordinator - 2025-01-12

By anna [dot] mansfeld [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Mansfeld) - published 23 October 2019 The University must pay SEK 400. 000 fine for incorrect procurements.The Swedish Competition Authority has reviewed the University’s purchasing and prohibited direct award procurements for 2016 and 2017. They selected four matters, which they reported to the Administrative Court in Malmö for adj

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sek-400000-fine-incorrect-procurements - 2025-01-12