| All those permanently employed at the faculty now have the chance to nominate honorary doctors. The deadline for sending in suggestions is 28 October. |
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The faculty management warmly welcomes all employees to the first seminar on the future of science. Tim Ekberg, the University’s head of planning, is our guest speaker who will talk about public sector governance and foresight – current issues in our sector. Dean Sven Lidin will also explain what is happening within the faculty. Time and place: 27 September, from 16:00 to 17:00 in Lundmarksalen, Astronomihuset. The registration deadline is 23 September.
Read more and sign up for the seminar |
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Skogssällskapet and related foundations have published a call for applications for funding worth a total of SEK 23.4 million for projects in forest management and nature conservation. The application deadline is 17 October for Skogssällskapet and 15 November for the other foundations.
Read more and apply for funding (skogssallskapet.se) |
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The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has published a call for applications for postdoc scholarship programmes at Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute, and Nanyang Technological University. The application deadline is 15 November.
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It is now possible to apply for funding from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW) and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (MAW). The focus is normally on the humanities and social sciences, but this year the foundations have also announced targeted grants on the theme of sustainable society. Please note that the University has internal management rules for applications, which also contain instructions on how to formulate a letter of intent. Letters of intent within the Faculty of Science should be sent to tobias.nilsson@science.lu.se by 1 December at the latest.
Read the call for applications and the management rules (staff.lu.se) |
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The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SFF) invites applications for doctoral fellowships from individuals employed at research institutes who wish to obtain a doctoral degree in science, medicine or technology. The aim of the call is to increase the exchange of knowledge between academia and industry. The application deadline is 30 November.
Call for applications for research institute doctoral students (strategiska.se) |
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You can search for calls for applications and funding bodies from all over the world and across all research areas in Pivot-RP. You can even search for grants to take part in academic conferences and postdocs funding.
Read more about how to use Pivot-RP (staff.lu.se) |
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Padlet is a web-based tool for creating digital collaboration spaces and bulletin boards that are easy to share and allow several people to work on them simultaneously. The tool is suitable for activities such as brainstorming, presentations and collaborative projects. It is easy to create posts containing text, images, links and videos. You can also embed your Padlet into a page on Canvas.
You can find more information about Padlet on the University’s website Teaching and learning online:
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The Division for Higher Education Development (AHU) invites you to participate in their autumn series Sustainable Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: Principles & Practices, which consists of four seminars and their associated workshops.
Read more and sign up for the seminars (ahu.lu.se) |
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The Lund Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science (LINXS) has put out a call for new thematic areas to start in 2023. Themes should be linked to one or more of the LINXS focus areas and involve research aimed at developing and using neutron and X-ray technologies. The application deadline is 18 November.
Read more and apply to create a theme (linxs.se) |
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The Lund Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science (LINXS) invites you to an event focusing on the results and impact of the centre's two themes Imaging and Dynamics, as well as opportunities at MAX IV and ESS. Time and place: 28-29 September at LINXS or online. The registration deadline is 20 September.
Read more and register for the LINXS Science Day (linxs.se) |
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| Anitha Thillaisundaram will be giving an associate professorship lecture with the title “The Burnside Problem”. Time and place: 29 September, from 14:00 to 15:00 in Hörmandersalen, the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. |
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| Jagdeep Singh will be giving an associate professorship lecture with the title "Sustainable resource consumption – is it feasible?". Time and place: 13 October, from 15.00 to 16.00 in Röda rummet, Ekologihuset. |
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What do gender equality and diversity have to do with an education in science? You can now register for the second workshop in the course “Education for scientific literacy – sustainability, equality and ethics.” The workshop is open to all teaching staff within the faculty, which means that you can attend the workshop even if you do not take the full course.
Read more and sign up for the workshop via the faculty’s internal website |
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| Christer Löfstedt, professor at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a new study in which researchers have succeeded in extracting pheromones – odour secretions used by insects and other animals for mating communication – from genetically modified oilseeds. The method could become an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to chemically produced pesticides in agriculture. “We were surprised at how well these plant-based pheromones worked for both capturing and confusing two butterfly species. Our results are a major step towards environmentally sustainable pest control,” says Löfstedt. |
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| Jessica Abbott, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, and Ulf Ellervik, professor at the Department of Chemistry, are experts in the new season of Fråga Lund, broadcast on SVT. |
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| Markku Rummukainen, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been interviewed about three key climate issues that he believes politicians should act upon. He talks about facilitating wind and solar power, pushing for more sustainable consumption and presenting a clearer story about the climate transition. |
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| Thomas Pugh, senior lecturer at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, has been interviewed about a comprehensive risk analysis of how the world’s forests will be affected by climate change in the future. The study shows that southern boreal forests in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as some forests in Africa and the Amazon, will be particularly vulnerable in the years up to 2100. |
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| Seven lectures from this year’s Science, Medicine and Technology (NMT) Days for students from upper secondary school are now being broadcast on the TV channel Kunskapskanalen. From the Faculty of Science, Emma Sparr, professor at the Department of Chemistry, has given a lecture on “Why don’t we evaporate?”, and Johannes Edvardsson, researcher at the Department of Geology, has presented a lecture on “Climate, disasters and cultural heritage”. |
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| Lina Eklund, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, and Markku Rummukainen, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, have been interviewed about the major floods in Pakistan that are affecting over 30 million people. “This is now a clear example of climate migration,” says Eklund. |
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| Eran Elhaik, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about a new study that shows that the most common method of analysis in population genetics (principal component analysis) has shortcomings. Elhaik says the flaws can lead to misconceptions and erroneous results about ancient people and how they are related genetically. He hopes the study will encourage a better approach to questioning results and thus help to make the science more reliable. He mentions methods such as Geographic Population Structure (GPS) to derive biogeography from DNA. |
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| Markku Rummukainen, professor at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been interviewed on the question that divides forestry research – should we cut down less forest or cut down more forest? |
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Eran Elhaik, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has published a popular science article entitled “Radiocarbon dating only works half the time – we may have found the solution”.
Read the article on theconversation.com
Would you also like to be published in The Conversation? Lund University is a member of the network. For further information contact the editor Miriam Frankel (miriam.frankel@theconversation.com). |
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