December 2010

Soon we will be leaving behind an eventful year; a year with successes, challenges, renewal and transformation for our university. Thank you for all your efforts within research, education, innovation and professional support over the past year. All your work is important for us to continue to develop our university together with our students. We, along with Assistant Vice-Chancellors Ingalill … Continue reading →

Work has begun on the LU libraries’ vision. The Vice-Chancellor has appointed University Librarian at Copenhagen University Michael Cotta Schønberg as project manager. Head Librarian at Malmö University Jan Nilsson has been appointed as rapporteur. The report will contain the following sections (in the order given): – An overview of the current situation, including a description of problems with regard … Continue reading →

Yesterday the EQ11 steering group met. We discussed experiences from the well-attended hearing on 8 December. We also had the final discussion on the self-reflection instrument. The final version will be uploaded to the EQ11 website in the next few days. Torgny Roxå and Katarina Mårtensson presented their report on successful education environments. Also on the agenda was the planning of … Continue reading →

Communication scientist Jesper Falkheimer is the new Vice-Chancellor of Campus Helsingborg. He succeeds Lars Haikola, who was appointed University Chancellor in the summer. There were many good, well-qualified candidates for the post. It is great that Jesper is coming back to Lund University and we are very pleased. Jesper Falkheimer is currently head of K3, the School of Arts and … Continue reading →

AKKA, AKademiska Kollegors Ansvar, is being run for the fourth time. The AKKA management programme is aimed at lecturers and researchers who hold a PhD, who are employed at Lund University and who are interested in management. There are 30 places on the programme, which has an integrated gender perspective. AKKA gives participants the opportunity to develop their own management … Continue reading →