Museichef Christian Mühlenbock vid Hunnestadsstenarna i Historiska museets entré. Foto: Jan Olsson Hunnestadsstenarna, som beskrivs som det mäktigaste vikingatida monumentet i Skåne, har fått ett nytt hem: ­Historiska museets glasade entré. På 1000-talet, när monumentet restes, bestod det av åtta stenar. Monumentet raserades mot slutet av 1700-talet. Tre stenar återfanns 1814, vilka sedan 1912 har

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/historiska-museet-lockar-med-monumental-entre - 2025-08-24

Anna Maria ­Jönsson, prefekt INES, ­Katarina ­Hedlund, föreståndare CEC och ­Anders ­Scherstén, prefekt Geologiska institutionen. Foto: Jan Olsson Den 1 januari 2026 slås två institutioner och en centrumbildning på Natur­vetenskapliga fakulteten samman till en när Miljö- och geovetenskapliga institutionen ser dagens ljus. Geologiska institutionen, Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemveten

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/uppenbara-vinster-med-att-sla-ihop-institutioner - 2025-08-24

Ingrid Petersson leder universitetsstyrelsens arbete. Foto: Kennet Ruona Styrning. Universitetets styrelse med ordförande Ingrid Petersson i spetsen har precis inlett en ny mandatperiod. Arbetet med internationellt genomslag och säkerhetsfrågor hamnar högt på agendan. Roligast är besöken ute i verksamheten. – Det är alltid roligt att besöka fakulteter och institutioner och inte minst att prata med

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/universitetsstyrelsens-ordforande-internationalisering-och-sakerhet-viktigaste-fragorna-framat - 2025-08-24

Tove Smeds testar under sex veckor att cykelpendla mellan Södra Sandby och Lund. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter Kan sex veckors cykelpendling ­mellan Södra Sandby och Lund få LUM:s r­eporter att förvandlas från soffpotatis till supercyklist? Jag och tjugo andra testcyklister började den sex veckor långa prövningen en måndag i september – en dag när regnet vräkte ner. Men trots den mindre charmiga väderleken

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/satsar-pa-att-bli-supercyklist-pa-sex-veckor - 2025-08-24

Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2025-08-24

The Annual Exhibition is a tradition where students use their studios as exhibition spaces for smaller solo presentations, while all the school's project rooms and common areas become one large group exhibition. The school's students work in a wide variety of techniques and an equally wide variety of themes.The annual exhibition offers an opportunity to recognize current trends and meet a new gene

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/malmo-art-academys-annual-exhibition - 2025-08-24

For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lundagård on Tuesday morning (14 May) and similar camps have been established around other hi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tent-camp-lundagard - 2025-08-24

COSHE stands for Computational Science for Health and Environment. The hub is based at Geocentrum II in Lund. Photo: Kenneth Ruona/CEC. A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdisciplinary research in the fields of health, climate and the environment. This type of project require

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2025-08-24

I took part in two interesting seminars a few weeks ago. The first was entitled “The academic book stands firm: Why a leading university needs its own Press in turbulent times”. The other seminar focused on how to apply for and obtain grants from the European Research Council (ERC). The seminar on how to write and publish academic books commendably highlighted the importance of books in the conduc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-interest-also-extends-swedish-phenomena - 2025-08-24

On Saturday 4 May, Lund’s city centre was taken over by Lundaloppet. This year, there was a record number of participants, 8,179, who ran or walked in the races. Among those competing were 784 staff members from Lund University. Lund University was one of the largest employers represented in the race. Many fleet-footed LU staff members took part and we had several runners among the top finishers.A

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-did-your-colleagues-fare-years-lundaloppet - 2025-08-24

This year’s doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University’s ceremonial highlight and the faculties’ most important academic celebration, will break the record for the number of conferees. It is time to celebrate the faculties’ doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors. In a solemn ceremony at Lund Cathedral, the doctoral students who completed their doctoral studies in the past year and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/record-number-conferees-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-31-may - 2025-08-24

According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement applications. Please note that your case needs to be completed in Primula by 30 November. You th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2025-08-24

Ludwig-Maximilian-universitet in Münich is one of the EUGLOH-universities. A COIL involves two different courses at two universities in different countries where students collaborate digitally during a part of the course. Each course follows its own syllabus, and the teachers grade their respective students. Virtual exchanges are a way to provide many students with international experience, as hig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-you-want-take-opportunity-develop-coil - 2025-08-24

The faculties’ honorary doctors for 2024 have been announced. They will be honoured at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony on 31 May 2024. You can hear the talking between 29-30 May. Lund University School of Economics and Management30 May 13:00 to 14:15 | Open lecture with professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s first deputy governor Anna BremanMartha Bailey, professor in Economy a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/see-open-lectures-faculties-honorary-doctors - 2025-08-24

On 26 May, a large number of emails were sent to University employees regarding a meeting between demonstrators and the University Management. This was not an IT security breach, but legitimate way of reaching many recipients since all staff email addresses are listed on the University’s website.Our freedom of speech provides space for large numbers of different opinions to be expressed and dissem

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emails-over-weekend-about-demonstrations - 2025-08-24

Mozhgan Zachrisson, head of The Department of Strategic Communication, and Ulrika Holgersson, head of the Department of Communication and Media. In January the two departments will merge. Photo: Jan Olsson 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 deci

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/concern-when-departments-are-merged - 2025-08-24

At the University Library’s book bindery and preservation studio Alexandra Tengelin Nyström och ­Carina Nilsson take care of the exclusive book collection. Photo: Johan Joelsson Around 100 select astronomy books dating from 1545 to 1799 have been relocated from the Astronomy Library to the University Library. LUM was there as the books were packed away, and again, several months later, after they

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/star-studded-tomes-astronomy-library-move-new-home - 2025-08-24

Annika Nyman is a playwright and teaches dramatic writing at Malmö Theatre Academy. Photo: Jenny Leyman What happens when people meet? How do they interact? How do they react? Annika Nyman, lecturer at Malmö Theatre Academy, regards helping students to understand these things as the most important aspect of her teaching duties. Inside the Malmö Theatre Academy’s premises on Bergsgatan in Malmö, a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/flair-dramatic - 2025-08-24

Johan Bergström. Photo: Rikard Tyllström At the School of Aviation in Ljungbyhed, any direct consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine are yet to be felt. However, Head of Department Johan Bergström says that it may only be a matter of time. He mentions Ukrainian interests who wish to train instructors who will in turn be active in Ukraine, training drone pilots on location.“This is the kind of thin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/higher-level-drone-pilot-training - 2025-08-24

Locally produced food is vital in times of crisis. Photo: Carina Andreasson When planning for food in times of crisis – what foodstuffs do we imagine? Many think of tin cans and freeze-dried food, but the fact is that if a crisis occurs, it is not stockpiled cans that will save us. Food preparedness is a subject being taken up by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Almedalen Week,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/preparedness-more-stockpiling-pantry-provisions - 2025-08-24