Are you planning your next grant application?
Join us for a focused seminar where you’ll get an insider’s overview of upcoming funding opportunities through the LU Grant Calendar and at the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. You’ll also learn about recent rule changes and how they may affect your application strategy.
This seminar is primarily aimed at postdocs and early-career researchers, but all interested are welcome.
Future Faculty invites you to a fika on Kanelbullens Dag!
As the Steering Board, we would like to hear more about your needs and how Future Faculty can best support you. At the same time, this is a great opportunity to connect across disciplines — this time together with colleagues from the Department of Biology.
Join us — we can’t wait to see many of you there!
Join our Future Faculty Masterclass with Ximena Alvira, MD, PhD (Elsevier) to learn how to maximize your publication success. Discover what editors look for, how to draft strong manuscripts, and strategies to choose the right journal and promote your work effectively.
Date: October 2
Speaker: Ximena Alvira — Clinical & Research Manager, ELSEVIER
Schedule:
| Time | Session |
| 10:00–11:00 | Becoming the Editor’s Pick: What the editors look at and look for |
| 11:00–11:40 | Key Strategies for Drafting Manuscripts for Publication (Part 1) |
| 11:40–12:00 | Q&A |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00–13:40 | Key Strategies for Drafting Manuscripts for Publication (Part 2) |
| 13:40–14:40 | Finding the Perfect Journal & Simple Promotion Strategies |
| 14:40–15:00 | Q&A |
Join us — we can’t wait to see many of you there!
Are you feeling a little overwhelmed with the amount of work to be done? Would you like some fresh input and ideas? How about boosting your supervision hours? All can be achieved by advertising a position in your group for an international academic who would like to complete a free internship in Sweden. Interns at Jobbsprånget are approved to work in Sweden and have, at a minimum, a bachelor’s degree, but many also hold PhDs and Postdoctoral Positions abroad. If you would like to know more or participate, join this workshop.
See you then!
Together with the Careers Centre, we aim to address this question during a seminar for early- to mid-career researchers at the Faculty who are planning to apply for the title of Docent (Associate Professor).
The speakers are Lena Uller and Lars Rylander, both members of the Docent Committee, who are involved in evaluating Docent applications.
The event will take place on April 29 from 10:00 to 12:00 at BMC i1345.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible!
Nominations for the Faculty of Medicine’s Future Faculty 2025-2026 Steering Board (term: June 15, 2025 to June 14, 2026) are open until April 30. Nominate yourself or another Future Faculty member to be a candidate by completing the form below. It takes approximately five minutes and should include a brief description of why you/your nominee is a strong candidate for the Steering Board. Any nominee must be informed beforehand and be willing to join the steering board if elected.
Nomination form: https://survey.mailing.lu.se/survey/58908
Why become a Steering Board member?
The Future Faculty Steering Board meets ten times a year to organize events for our members, support our task forces (e.g., the annual retreat, the Minerva award and the VR starting grant support program), and discuss ongoing work in other boards where we have a Future Faculty representative (e.g., the Faculty of Medicine board, the Docent committee and the Swedish National Junior Faculty). As a Steering Board member, you provide a valuable service for your fellow Future Faculty members and have the opportunity to influence broader faculty decisions. You get an inside view into how decisions are made at the Faculty of Medicine and learn more about the organization and function of Lund University and Swedish academia generally.
What’s next?
After the nominations are collected, all Future Faculty members will be invited to vote in the election, which is scheduled to happen in May. The new steering board will meet in June to elect a chair and vice-chair for the coming term. Other tasks on the board will be divided during a kick-off meeting in August.
More information
If you are not yet a member of Future Faculty, you can become a member here. Email the elections chair (Annelise, annelise.blomberg@med.lu.se) with any questions about nominations or the election process.
We look forward to receiving your nominations!
We are delighted to share that the 2025 Minerva Leadership Award has been awarded to
Professor Håkan Arheden!
He is being honored for his outstanding leadership and dedication to fostering a vibrant, supportive environment for early-career researchers.
Celebrate this with us!
During the award ceremony, you can:
📅 Date: April 25, 2025
🕒 Time: 14:00 -15:00
📍 Location: Segerfalksalen, BMC A10
📝 RSVP: Please register by April 21st here or visit our blog for more details:
futurefaculty.blogg.lu.se
Looking forward to meeting all of you!
Looking forward to seeing you all!
The event takes place on April 3rd in Segerfalksalen, BMC A10.
The event is organized in tribute to Bente Rexed Gerstedt Foundation celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
PROGRAM:
09:30-10:00 Morning coffee and mingle
10:00-10:05 Welcome, Maria Björkqvist
10:05-10:20 How the foundation came into being, Leif Salford
10:20-10:35 What the foundation has done so far, Anders Björklund
10:35-11:35 Short talks by three grant recipient reflecting on their research career
11:35-12:00 Panel discussion on issues related to the problems facing young researchers in the
early stages of their career
12:00 Buffé lunch
*NB! Registration is free of charge. Please register no later than April 1.
The Careers Centre and Future Faculty are partnering to host a seminar series dedicated to advancing academic careers. This is the inaugural event of four.
Are you an Early Career Researcher (ECR) eager to explore academic career pathways at the Faculty of Medicine and learn what qualifications are needed for teaching positions?
Join us to hear from Helena Persson, Senior Lecturer and a key member of the Faculty’s working group on ECR career development (2024), as well as Anders P. Håkansson, Professor and Chair of the Academic Appointments Committee.
Helena Persson will provide details on career paths, and with Anders P Håkansson we can discuss applying to tenured positions.
Let’s learn more together!
After a successful start, the second event from the series of 4 seminars is coming.
This time, we discuss “The-grant-writing-strategy” and focus on how to extract the “quintessence” of your idea and align it with funding agency requirements.
Let’s continue expanding our knowledge and supporting each other!
The single-cell team at the Center for Translational Genomics (CTG) in Lund currently has an offer for new users that is open during the first quarter of 2025 (until the end of March). The offer means 50% off on some 10x genomics products. We find this to be a good opportunity for early-career researchers to enable some otherwise quite costly analyses.
If you want to know more about this offer or you think that this is interesting but need help to plan your project, feel free to join staff from the single-cell team in an Online Drop in Session, hosted by Future Faculty on Wednesday 5th March between 12:00-14:00 on zoom.
The Zoom link is: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65546503573
We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible!
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