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26 April 2024Welcome May, magnolias and celebrations in Lundagård! Another important sign of spring is the annual FEK Table Tennis tournament, which took place on 17 April and rallied participants and supporters from most of our departments. Beyond sports, this issue of Staff news highlights LUSEM presence in parliament, the spring budget, and two upcoming dissertations. |
Business Law researcher talks AI during Research Day in parliamentOn the morning of 18 April, the parliamentary committees held internal seminars with researchers. This was followed by a joint open seminar on AI and its opportunities and limitations. Johan Axhamn gave a presentation during the Committee on Culture’s (Kulturutskottet) seminar on “AI and copyright: consequences in the cultural field”. Learn more |
LUSEM News CommentAssociate professor in Economics Åsa Hansson comments on the spring budget of 2024. She highlights the issue of employment rate and specifically how it can be measured. (Watch the video, in Swedish),
| FEK Table Tennis Tournament 2024: Meet the winners!A total of 20 players battled fiercely until the very end, and the final match of this year may well be remembered as the most thrilling and of the highest quality ever! After the dust had settled our winners were Djevdet Iséni and Yuqing Zhao. Learn more | From ideas to Impact: Lund's Innovation District and the future of techFollowing a recent afternoon talk at LUSEM discussing Lund Innovation District (Lund ID), its significance is evident.
Kristina Eneroth, Vice-Chancellor at Lund University and Senior Advisor at LUSEM, shares insights on the district's operations, wider impact and on how LUSEM can play a crucial role in the development of Lund ID.
Learn more | |  fd | Poorer learning if teaching is anglicised?“Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” argues Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at LUSEM.
Peter Svensson wrote the book, “På engelska förstår jag ungefär” (I get the gist in English) together with Ola Håkansson, a publisher at Studentlitteratur. The book is both a contribution to the debate and a review of research on English as a language of instruction in Swedish higher education. Learn more | | | | | The beauty study – a perfect stormRemember the ”beauty study”? It received a lot of attention in the autumn of 2022; was reported for flaws in the research method, but was later found not to have deviated from good research practice.
Learn more | Researcher and want to write and communicate more? Enhance your skills now!During spring – April and May – a lot of exciting things happen in the field of research communication for researchers!
Pitch your ideas to the Conversation, take part in seminars on impactful writing or explain your research in four minutes. Learn more | | fd | Responsible internationalisationThis April, the first national interim report on responsible internationalisation was published. The aim is to create national guidelines and a national support structure for responsible internationalisation. The report is commissioned by the Swedish government and is written by Universitets- och högskolerådet (UHR), Vetenskapsrådet och Vinnova. Tommy Shih and Sylvia Schwaag Serger, both researchers at LUSEM, have provided research support for the report. Learn more | | | | | New thesis: Three questions for Markus Arnez-WegeliusYou are about to defend your thesis “A Dynamic Capabilities Approach to Sustainable Business Model Innovation”. In short, what is your thesis (doctoral dissertation) about? “My thesis in a nutshell focuses on which capabilities firms need to innovate their business models in response to sustainability. " Markus Arnez-Wegelius is a doctoral student in Strategy at the Department of Business Administration.
Learn more | | fd | New thesis: Three questions for Olga LarkDoctoral student Olga Lark will defend her thesis 26 April. Get a quick glimpse of her thesis, experiences and near future. ”My thesis is about globalization and how it affects firms and individuals in Sweden. The two distinct topics that I study are gender inequality and firm innovation and how these change when firms are exposed to different aspects of globalization.” Olga Lark is a doctoral student at the Department of Economics. Learn more | | | | | Important messagesThe 'Messages page' is filled with important notes, events and news like: - Excellent teaching is to be highlighted through recognition of educational qualifications
- Celebrations on 30 April and 1 May 2024
- Updated work environment goals for Lund University
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