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“More people should be sharing the grants”

Published 18 November 2016 After your PhD, the clock starts ticking fast. For a young researcher there are no guarantees that you will have a long career in research. Still, you have to give it your all, often while combining it with having small children. There is no time for you to draw up a plan B. In this equation, Pontus Nordenfelt from Future Faculty calls for more honesty and clearer career

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-should-be-sharing-grants - 2025-03-13

New technology facilitates studies of the macula

Published 18 November 2016 Using new technology it is possible to get a detailed colour image of all retinal layers without inserting any instrument into the eye. The technology will be used by eye researcher Elisabeth Wittström, who studies diseases of the macula. Her colleague, Linnéa Taylor, is researching the link between inflammation and damage to the retina, which could lead to new treatment

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-technology-facilitates-studies-macula - 2025-03-13

A work environment champion

Published 18 November 2016 As a young man, when Mats Bohgard was working at a chemical factory during a leave from studies, he was urged to “Come back and fix the work environment to make it fit for human beings!”. Mats Bohgard. “Even though they said it half-jokingly, the truth is that they were experiencing every conceivable work environment problem: chemical exposure, noticeable alcohol abuse,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/work-environment-champion - 2025-03-13

Recent arrivals practise their Swedish at the medics’ language café

Published 18 November 2016 “How are you, what seems to be the problem?” asks Ahmed, who is playing Doctor Ali. “Well, I have had a stomach ache for a few days”, says 26 year-old Sadeq who is playing the patient, 50 year-old Bengt. “Can you describe your symptoms?” asks Ahmed/Doctor Ali, and Sadeq/Bengt explains about pain, nausea and vomiting. At Locus Medicus in Malmö. Sadeq al-Ghaffari from Irak

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recent-arrivals-practise-their-swedish-medics-language-cafe - 2025-03-13

Russian parental movement counteracting children’s rights

Published 18 November 2016 Russia has its own right-wing populist movement: the Parental Movement. While the US equivalent is protesting stricter gun control, the Russians are raging against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Western lifestyle is considered a major threat to Russian traditions and normal family life”, says social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand. She sees patterns that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/russian-parental-movement-counteracting-childrens-rights - 2025-03-13

Chronicle: "Human rights are to become interdisciplinary"

Published 23 November 2016 A new interdisciplinary research environment for human rights will soon be launched in Lund. “Interdisciplinarity and innovative thinking are required if our work on human rights is to remain relevant to society”, writes Morten Kjaerum, director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Morten Kjaerum, director and adjunct professor Raoul Wallenberg Institute. The head of the h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chronicle-human-rights-are-become-interdisciplinary - 2025-03-13

Now it starts - the Lund University’s 350th anniversary

Published 16 December 2016 For two years, the LU350 Office has been working hard to coordinate all the University initiatives into a jubilee programme. The jubilee starts on Monday 19 December – exactly 350 years after the document to establish Lund University was signed. “After all the planning, we have finally reached the implementation phase”, says Louise Pierce, one of the three members of the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/now-it-starts-lund-universitys-350th-anniversary - 2025-03-13

Medical centre recruiting top junior researchers

Published 16 December 2016 Tremendous amounts of money, an ambitious and carefully considered appointment process and major start-up packages for new employees – these are the three things that characterise WCMM, the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine in Lund. Professor Freddy Ståhlberg is the director of WCMM. WCMM in Lund has sister organisations at the universities in Umeå, Gothenburg and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medical-centre-recruiting-top-junior-researchers - 2025-03-13

The economist for whom the world was not prepared

Published 16 December 2016 He advocated family planning and contraceptives already four decades before Elise Ottesen-Jensen. He was in a common-law marriage, was interested in social problems, and supported the women’s suffrage movement – and today his theories control the design of monetary policy in the West. Knut Wicksell, pioneering Professor of Economics in Lund 1901–1916, was a man ahead of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/economist-whom-world-was-not-prepared - 2025-03-13

Unknowing researchers became a stamp

Published 16 December 2016 One of the two recent Lund University jubilee stamps depicts the young diabetes researchers Anna Edlund and Jones Ofori. They are pleased to be featured on the stamps – but it was a complete surprise to them both. “Obviously we knew that our picture had been taken. A couple of years ago, there was a photographer here at CRC (Clinical Research Centre) who photographed the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unknowing-researchers-became-stamp - 2025-03-13

A jubilee journey through time and space

Published 16 December 2016 Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a purely geographical point of view, is a measurable stret

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2025-03-13

Is the world becoming a better place? Checkpoint Sweden

Published 17 February 2017 Is the world becoming a better place? This question will be asked by researchers when the first science week of the 350th anniversary celebration takes place in March. Debatt i Lund panellists will start off the week by approaching the question from different angles, followed by five days of discussions and lectures on the standard of living, human rights, war, terrorism

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-becoming-better-place-checkpoint-sweden - 2025-03-13

How to deal with journalists

Published 17 February 2017 Research communication officer Evelina Lindén at the School of Economics and Management encouraged journalists to use their moral compass and be careful to give credit where it is due when interviewing researchers – in reference to a case in which SVT had assumed credit for a documentary. Here she points out what researchers themselves can do to avoid the culture clash b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-deal-journalists - 2025-03-13

LU employees use yoga to relieve stress

Published 17 February 2017 Their own sense of well-being after a yoga session led them onto a new path in their research. Over 200 LU employees signed up as volunteers for their first study. Now they are finalising an interdisciplinary investigation of the psychological and physiological health effects of yoga. Rachel Maddux. Rachel Maddux, Una Tellhed and Daiva Daukantaité are colleagues at the D

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-employees-use-yoga-relieve-stress - 2025-03-13

USV is shrinking – centres are moving into the faculties

Published 17 February 2017 USV is the umbrella term for the University’s specialised centres which are gradually moving into the faculties. But the process is not painless – the specialised centres are keen to safeguard their identities and their low overhead costs. The faculties and departments, on the other hand, do not want to take on financially insecure ventures. Leif Stenberg is the director

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/usv-shrinking-centres-are-moving-faculties - 2025-03-13

More research funds keep on coming

Publicerad 14 december 2018 2018 has been a great year for incoming research funds to the Department! We can proudly present a various number of different projects within different fields of Strategic Communication! Only during the last week we had several grants given to various researchers at the Department; ranging from funds for further research within “Public Diplomacy”, Marianne and Marcus W

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/more-research-funds-keep-coming - 2025-03-13

Vinnare utsedd i Gullers Grupps uppsatsstipendium

Publicerad 20 december 2018 Isabelle Karlsson är årets vinnare av Gullers Grupps uppsatsstipendium, The Gullers Grupp Award, med uppsatsen ”Depoliticizing feminism? The transformation of an ideology-charged concept in a nation branding context”. Stipendiet delas ut till den bästa masteruppsatsen inom utbildningen strategisk kommunikation vid Lunds universitet. Under Isabelles andra termin på maste

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/vinnare-utsedd-i-gullers-grupps-uppsatsstipendium - 2025-03-13

Slutrapporten är här: 7 steg mot den kommunikativa organisationen

Publicerad 11 februari 2019 Efter fyra års väntan är den äntligen här: slutrapporten i forskningsprojektet Den kommunikativa organisationen. Studien är den största inom strategisk kommunikation i europeisk historia och bjuder på många intressanta slutsatser som kommunikatörer och chefer bör känna till. Nu är den äntligen här, rapporten som avslutar och sammanfattar forskningsprojektet »Den kommuni

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/slutrapporten-ar-har-7-steg-mot-den-kommunikativa-organisationen - 2025-03-13

Campus Helsingborg utvecklas och Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation tar del

Publicerad 16 april 2019 Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation är en av de många verksamheter som får utveckla Campus Helsingborg när Lunds universitet satsar 35 miljoner kronor. Vid lanseringen den 16 april var entusiasmen stor från forskare, medarbetare och samarbetspartners som jobbar tillsammans med de nya satsningarna. Initiativet En strategisk plattform för politisk kommunikation utveck

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/campus-helsingborg-utvecklas-och-institutionen-strategisk-kommunikation-tar-del - 2025-03-13

The RESIST Toolkit – ISK stöder Storbritannien i att bemöta desinformation

Publicerad 10 april 2019 Den växande hotbilden från vilseledande och falsk information har motiverat Storbritannien att stärka sina insatser för att motverka desinformation. Sedan 2018 har ett forskarlag vid ISK stöttat Storbritanniens ”Government Communication Service” (GCS) i detta arbete genom att utveckla en metod för att bemöta desinformation. Metoden som går under namnet ”RESIST Disinformati

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/resist-toolkit-isk-stoder-storbritannien-i-att-bemota-desinformation - 2025-03-13