The Faculty of Science announced a call for applications for subject-specific research schools in areas of strategic importance: environmental and climate science, computational science and life sciences for the period 2024–2028. The deadline for applications is 8 February.
Read more and apply for funding for research schools |
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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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The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science and others invite you to the online seminar “Research Communication: Understanding media and journalism” which is aimed at doctoral students and researchers in the early stages of their careers. Time and place: 26 January from 09:00 to 12:00 in the Hollywood Kårhuset conference room. Space is limited so first come, first served!
Read more and sign up for the workshop (cec.lu.se) |
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Lund University and others invite you to an online seminar about the risks associated with fieldwork in conflict zones and how to go about improving security. Time and place: 31 January from 10:00 to 11:00, via Zoom.
Read more and sign up for the online seminar (zoom.us) |
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Lund University is invited to nominate young researchers (max 32 years old) to participate in the interdisciplinary congress which will be held in Berlin 28–29 November. Nominations should include contact details, qualifications and academic background. Send your nomination to carina.wickberg@rektor.lu.se by 30 January. Contact kongress@schleyer-stiftung.de if you want to know more about the congress.
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TorTalk is a speech synthesiser that the University’s employees and students can use to have all kinds of text read aloud. Many people with dyslexia or adhd feel that they are helped by using TorTalk. The University has had a license for use on computers for some time, and has now acquired a license to use the TorTalk app on mobile phones and tablets. Contact the Lund University Library (info@ub.lu.se) for more information on how to install and activate the app.
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| Henrik Smith, professor at the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, and Maria Blasi Romero, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, were interviewed about the new agreement on biodiversity that was approved during the UN COP15 summit. “I think it is exceptionally positive and important that an agreement has been reached. There has of course been talk about whether agreement could be found at all,” says Smith. |
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| Marcus Stensmyr, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about researchers’ discovery of mosquitos in Cambodia and Vietnam that are exceptionally resistant to pesticides. The species of mosquito in question spreads diseases such as yellow fever, Zika virus, Chikungunya and others. “It is worrying since it is the first time super-resistant mosquitos have been seen, and there is a risk that they will spread,” says Stensmyr, adding that there is an urgent need for other types of insecticide. |
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| Oscar Agertz, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, has been interviewed about the stars that astronomers can study today, and in the distant future. |
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| Martin Green, researcher at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about new research showing that marine wind farms do not represent as great a threat to birds as previously thought. Green says that there is room to build a lot more wind power at sea, and that birds need not present an obstacle to doing so if building takes place in the right locations and operations are paused from time to time. |
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| Nils Cronberg, senior lecturer at the Department of Biology, has been interviewed about the Land and Environment Court’s “No” to an expansion of quarrying activities in Södra Sandby. Cronberg has been fighting to protect the natural assets around the quarry since the turn of the millennium, when he discovered that the first fen had dried out and raised the alarm with the county administrative board. |
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