A lot has been done and more is on its way the next three years. Photo: Nathan Dumlao/Unsplash och Charlotte Carlberg Bärg It is halftime for Vice-chancellor Erik Renström and his team. Three years of his term of office have passed, and three remain. Here in LUM, he sums up the first-half performance, looks ahead and explains how he approaches a job in which everyone wants a bit of his time. Word

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/halftime-vice-chancellor-erik-renstrom - 2025-08-30

Recently Dick Harrison had his 105th book published. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Dick Harrison is 57 years old and has written 105 books. He lectures all over the country, is a regular expert on TV and radio, runs a podcast, and writes articles for magazines and two columns a week in one of Sweden’s largest newspapers. “Teaching is my calling, though, the thing closest to my identity.” It’s win

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dick-harrison-brand - 2025-08-30

Photo: TeamDAF/Istockphoto On October 31st, representatives from across the globe will gather in Glasgow for two weeks to attend the UN climate change conference COP26. Expectations are high following last year's cancelled conference, and the IPCC report released in August. What can we expect from the meeting? Five Lund researchers give answers. How far do countries' climate ambitions go? As part

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2025-08-29

Ulrika Sandén, taking a break from driving her motorcycle. Photo:Kennet Ruona. She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in nort

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2025-08-29

Bild: TeamDAF/Istockphoto. Den 31 oktober samlas representanter från världens alla hörn i Glasgow för att delta i FN:s stora klimattoppmöte COP26 som ska pågå i två veckor. Förväntningarna är skyhöga efter fjolårets inställda konferens och den alarmerande rapport som FN:s klimatpanel IPCC släppte i augusti. Men vad kan vi egentligen förvänta oss av mötet? Vad står på spel och vad har utkomsten för

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/klimattoppmotet-i-glasgow-vad-handlar-det-om-och-vad-spelar-det-roll - 2025-08-29

Foto: Petra Francke Rektor beslutade 2022 om fem forskningsområden som ska vara universitetets profilområden fram till 2030. Förhoppningen då var att regeringen snabbt skulle sjösätta planerna på att profilera landets lärosäten och skjuta till mångmiljonbelopp. Men regeringsskiftet hösten 2022 innebar istället utredning och analys och fortfarande är det oklart om den nationella satsningen blir ver

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/profilomraden-fast-i-limbo - 2025-08-30

Selma Maric learned to read before she was two and speaks five languages.  " I think I am just quick to make connections and see links: sort of like having good reflexes, it goes fast!” she laughs. Selma Maric is a woman who is not afraid of departures and she has not followed the classic path into the research world. “I have never shied away from ending things if something else shows up. I only h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/refugee-experience-coloured-researchers-worldview - 2025-08-29

The University building. Photo: Mikael Risedal A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office Annika Olsson. Photo: Kennet Ruona What’s the first thing you will be working on as dean? “Sinc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2025-08-30

Increased collaboration within the faculties and a general revitalisation.  This is already a clear result from the RQ20 research evaluation that was presented in March. “We have caught sight of each other” was a frequent comment heard in a round of telephone calls to the deans and research managers. Most of the faculties were encouraged to identify their strengths, combine their strengths and mak

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculties-regrouping-after-rq20 - 2025-08-29

Anna Löthman and Tove Eriksson: "Right now LU is a race car! Ordinarily, LU is a great ship with hundreds of smaller boats moving in its wake. Every movement is slow. Usually, it is practically impossible to turn that ship. Now things have happened fast! How has life and work changed during the pandemic? LUM has met coworkers with widely different situations, starting with Tove Eriksson and Anna L

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/everyday-life-wake-corona-crisis - 2025-08-29

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-media-analyses-latest-developments-middle-east - 2025-08-29

A press conference in Lundagård arranged by pro-Palestine protestors. Photo: Jan Olsson The war in Gaza has caused conflict at universities in Sweden and abroad. Overcoming the differences between protestors and university managements and within groups of employees is likely to take time. We met with both Lund University’s Vice-Chancellor and protestors from the encampment in Lundagård. In this ed

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-palestinagard-way-forward - 2025-08-30