Published 23 November 2021 What’s new in this operational plan is that the management is presenting its strategic map formulated as LU = 5 K + C. (The letters in this formula are the initials of the key words in Swedish). Lund University is to further develop its Quality, Creativity, Integrity, Communication, Character and Campus. The annual operational plan is based on the University’s overall st

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/operational-plan-and-resource-allocation-2022-now-ready - 2025-02-01

Published 24 November 2021 Four researchers at Lund University are on the 2021 list of the most cited researchers, which is compiled every year by Clarivate, the company behind Web of Science. In its entirety, the list contains just over 6 600 researchers from all over the world, who have shown significant influence in their research fields through publication of several extensively cited articles

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/four-lund-university-researchers-among-most-cited-2021 - 2025-02-01

By backa_elias [dot] bondpa [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Backa Elias Bondpä) - published 21 November 2021 Lund University is to get better at reporting and taking measures against incidents that occur in information security. This is the goal of a recently approved sub-project within efforts to introduce a management system for information security. Anders Sjöö is in charge of the sub-pro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/management-information-security-incidents-be-coordinated - 2025-02-01

By Charlotte [dot] Hedin [at] hr [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Hedin) - published 20 November 2021 Ill-health resulting from sedentary, static or repetitive work causes major problems for employees. The University’s computer-based pause program, PausIt, offers over 100 exercises developed in consultation with physiotherapists, ergonomists and orthopaedic specialists that help us to prevent stiffnes

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/pause-programme-pausit-prevents-occupational-injuries - 2025-02-01

By Charlotte [dot] Hedin [at] hr [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Hedin) - published 20 November 2021 Foto: Mikael Risedal The application deadline for health promotion reimbursement for activities paid for in 2021 is 31 January 2022. Applications registered in Primula after this date will not be approved. On 1 January 2022, the A-Z list that provides examples of approved health promotion activities w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updates-regarding-health-promotion-reimbursement - 2025-02-01

By Charlotte [dot] Hedin [at] hr [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Hedin) - published 30 November 2021 A digital case management system for university-wide staff/HR matters has been launched. The aim is to develop HR support to the organisational units, and HR information on the Staff Pages and in newsletters. Most of the HR Division´s dedicated email addresses have been replaced by new information in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/case-management-system-university-wide-hr-matters - 2025-02-01

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 24 November 2021 The Vice-Chancellor have decided that Lund University will begin work on profiling and guidelines for the work. On 22 November, Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz has decided on the process for this work in accordance with the principles decided by the Vice-Chancellor. The process is described in the manageme

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/invitation-notify-interest-becoming-profile-area-and-next-meeting-scheduled-3-december - 2025-02-01

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 21 November 2021 To enable for everybody to follow the process of identifying the profile areas at Lund University a new blog has been created. The blog is intended to gather all important information concerning the process to make it accessible to all. There will post where you can follow the latest activities in the proce

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/follow-process-identifying-profile-areas-new-blog - 2025-02-01

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 21 November 2021 Regarding applications for university-wide funding – interdisciplinary projects focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. Lund University has established a research programme for excellence entailing employment of doctoral students and postdocs and focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable developm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forthcoming-call-applications-projects-focusing-agenda-2030 - 2025-02-01

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 20 November 2021 In her teaching in organization and leadership at Lund University School of Economics and Management, Nadja Sörgärde works in line with what is called "blended learning". Here she talks about how she thinks about course design and use of video in teaching. Read more and take part of her pra

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/blended-learning-practice - 2025-02-01

By louise [dot] ogland [at] venturelab [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Ögland) - published 1 December 2021 Many students at Lund University are curious about start-ups and innovation. To offer more people the opportunity to test idea development, VentureLab by Lund University organises an annual Lund Innovation Challenge. During the weekend of 19–21 November, around 100 students from all over the Univer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/100-students-participated-innovation-challange - 2025-02-01

By tina [dot] trollas [at] fs [dot] lu [dot] se (Tina Trollås) - published 6 December 2021 The first discussion forum is starting. The first discussion forum will be an open forum with a no-preset theme. The starting point for the profile areas is research, but the aim is for complete profile areas to be formed during the process. They are to be intertwined knowledge environments involving strong

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/first-discussion-forums-about-profile-areas-14-december - 2025-02-01

Published 7 December 2021 At the end of October, Lund University’s quality assurance of study programmes was approved by the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ). I think that Lund University should be happy and proud about this, but it is important to keep moving forward to continue developing our quality assurance systems. The next major area we need to work on is quality assurance of resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-project-development-quality-assurance-systems-research - 2025-02-01

Published 7 December 2021 During its away day, the central administration’s management group (consisting of the heads of the faculty offices and the heads of division in the central administration) discussed the administration’s development areas – both what has been done so far and what remains to be developed. The central administration’s plan of operations highlights the following development a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/developing-central-administrations-support-and-work - 2025-02-01

Published 7 December 2021 The new University-wide Council for educational development has now had its first meeting. The introduction of the council was decided by the vice-chancellor at the end of May this year and, since then, the faculties have worked to appoint members. The council, which I chair, includes Anders Sonesson, director of the Division for Higher Education Development (AHU) and a m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/teaching-career-paths-agenda-new-university-wide-council-educational-development - 2025-02-01

Published 7 December 2021 The Swedish Research Council has introduced a new distinguished professorship programme and the researchers Charlotte Ling and Malin Parmar have been awarded grants of SEK 50 million each over 10 years. The aim of the distinguished professor grants programme is to create the conditions for the most outstanding researchers to conduct long-term, innovative research with gre

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/distinguished-professor-grants-two-researchers-lund-university - 2025-02-01

Published 6 December 2021 The administrative prize is awarded annually for excellent administrative initiatives of an innovative nature that have contributed to the University’s development or for exceptional service and efficiency. The recipients of the 2022 prize are Magnus Svensson, head of division at the Faculty of Law and Sahar Valizadeh, project manager for Project/Devops (LDC). They will e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recipients-2022-administrative-prize - 2025-02-01

Published 7 December 2021 Academic freedom is a fundamental prerequisite for our activities. It is also an area that engages many employees. We could be better at highlighting ongoing work but also at allowing more scope to discuss and draw attention to issues concerning academic freedom. During the autumn, the Ethics Advisory Board was given a new remit and has been renamed the Council for Ethics

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/increased-focus-academic-freedom - 2025-02-01

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 9 December 2021 Stefanos Athanasopoulos, Samuel Staines and Emanuel Larsson collaborated on the project to develop future beamlines at the ESS research facility. Photo: Noomi Egan Using a torch, a camera, a water bottle and pieces of Lego, Emanuel Larsson built a scanner now used as a prototype to develop future beamlines at E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/home-built-scanner-helps-construct-beamline-ess - 2025-02-01

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson) - published 9 December 2021 Andreas Bergh, Louise Bringselius, Niklas Altermark and Cecilia Cassinger. You have to respect the fact that collaboration takes time and is not always so easy to achieve, according to Louise Bringselius, who recently started the Institute for Public Affairs together with researchers from th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-tool-researchers-take-part-public-debate - 2025-02-01