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Explore Skill School, the Social Sciences Method Center's exclusive workshop series, tailored for doctoral students and senior researchers at Lund University! In September and October, we offer eight exciting workshops that will enhance your skills and give you the chance to network with other method enthusiasts from across the university. The initiative is aimed at academic staff from all faculti
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/explore-skill-school - 2026-06-22
With his cycling helmet perched on his head, he rushes in like a whirlwind, fires off monosyllabic replies to emails and then asks thoughtful questions during meetings while simultaneously managing to work away on his computer. For Henrik Smith, life moves at a hundred miles an hour. But he is also a lauded professor and the previous, long-time coordinator of BECC with an awful lot to do. Henrik S
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-visionary-who-never-slows-down - 2026-06-21
Bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common vaginal infection caused by an imbalance in the natural bacteria of the vagina, affects up to one in four women annually, often causing significant stress. Conventional antibiotic treatments typically prescribed by doctors can disrupt the natural vaginal microbiome, leading to high rates of recurrence and secondary yeast infections. Gedea Biotech’s novel antibiot
https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/lab-market-phyph-now-approved-launch-eu - 2026-06-21
The Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation is donating SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University. This is the largest donation to the university since its foundation in 1666. The donation is dedicated to translational cancer research, meaning applied cancer research in antibody and cell therapies with the aim of improving prognosis and quality of life for today's cancer patients.The administrati
https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/sek-420-million-cancer-research-lund-university - 2026-06-21
In this article, recently published in Acta Sociologica, Mats Fred draws on more than a decade of fieldwork on social investments in Sweden to explore the rise and fall of reforms: How are reforms kept alive? What happens when key actors leave, networks dissolve, and governance priorities shift? In the 2010s, the idea of social investments gained traction as a key to preventive, evidence-based, an
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-investments-swedish-municipalities-rise-and-fall-reform - 2026-06-21
Welcome to a public lecture with Middle East correspondent Cecilia Uddén (Swedish Radio) on the dramatic developments in the Middle East. How do today’s turbulent events affect the Middle East and its people? Join us for a lecture with Cecilia Uddén, the renowned Middle East correspondent for Swedish Radio, who was recently awarded the Stora Journalistpriset for her reporting from the region.With
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upcoming-cmes-public-lecture-award-winning-middle-east-correspondent-cecilia-udden - 2026-06-21
In 2022, the world's nations achieved a "Paris Agreement for nature" — the Kunming-Montreal Framework, negotiated during COP15 in Canada. Now, the follow-up meeting, COP16, is set to take place in Cali, Colombia. What is Sweden’s position ahead of this meeting, and what policy processes are underway for the implementation of the framework? And where does research fit into all of this? We posed a f
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/policy-insights-ahead-cop16-colombia - 2026-06-21
The Faculty has recently established a research council as an advisory body to the Faculty Board and management. ”We hope to strengthen the quality and impact of our research", says Chair Jonas Larsson, Vice-Dean. A central part of a research council's work is external monitoring and analysis of the quality development of the Faculty's research. As an advisory body to the Faculty Board of Medicine
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/our-facultys-new-research-council-quality-development-and-impact-agenda - 2026-06-21
Several faculties have merged different departments or are about to do so. The Faculty of Engineering (LTH) merged two departments at the turn of the year, the Facult of Social Sciences has decided on one merger and is on the way to a second, while the Faculty of Science will make a decision after the summer. In a policy decision last year, the Faculty of Social Sciences decided that within a few
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/concern-when-departments-are-merged - 2026-06-22
The Research and Innovation Bill of December 2024 promised substantial new funding through a number of targeted calls for applications. At the same time, it was also decided that new core funding for research would be allocated to universities based on indicators, external grants received and the number of highly cited publications per institution. We are now beginning to see some of the results a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/successful-outcomes-increased-research-funding-and-new-colleagues - 2026-06-22
When the researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) cross the border into Bhutan, the first thing that strikes them is the sense of calm and peacefulness. But it is not just the tranquillity of nature that attracts them, they are here to deepen the collaboration between Swedish engineering know-how and Bhutanese sustainability philosophy – an international exchange that has been going on fo
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/land-happiness-learning-lund - 2026-06-22
2022 fick världens länder ett ”Parisavtal för naturen”, det så kallade Kunming-Montréal-ramverket som förhandlades fram under toppmötet COP15 i Kanada. Nu är det snart dags för uppföljarmötet, COP16 i Cala i Colombia. Var befinner sig Sverige inför det och vilka policyprocesser pågår kring implementering av ramverket? Och var kommer forskningen in i det hela? Vi ställde några frågor till tjänstemä
https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/spaningar-infor-cop16-i-colombia - 2026-06-21
I forsknings- och innovationspropositionen från december 2024 utlovades mycket nya medel via många riktade utlysningar. Samtidigt slog man också fast att nya basanslag för forskning skulle fördelas till universiteten utifrån indikatorer, erhållna externa bidrag och antalet högciterade publikationer per lärosäte. Nu börjar vi se vissa resultat av detta och det möjliggör också nya rekryteringar. Vet
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/framgangar-mer-resurser-forskning-och-nya-kollegor - 2026-06-22
Med Varvsstaden ute ur bilden är det University of Chicagos etablering och satsningar i ett av den amerikanska jättestadens mest utsatta områden, South Side Chicago, som står förebild för Konstnärliga fakultetens framtida samlokalisering. – Tänk att skapa ett campus på Heleneholm där Musikhögskolan redan finns. Det vore något helt nytt i Skandinavien, och universitetet skulle bli känt för mer än
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/konstnarliga-fakulteten-vill-samlokalisera-pa-heleneholm - 2026-06-22
