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Communication support

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The Communications Officer can help you make your research more visible, understandable, and accessible to the right target audiences. Whether you want to disseminate research findings, improve a web page, create presentation materials, or are considering how best to get your message across, support is available.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can the communications officer help you?

For example, you can get help with:

  • A clearer plan for your communications
  • The right message for the right target audience
  • Texts that are easier for people to understand
  • Research that is easier to find
  • A website that works better for visitors
  • Materials that look professional
  • Communications that comply with the university’s visual identity and accessibility requirements
  • Someone to bounce ideas off regarding communications issues, big and small

Is your research visible?

The Research Portal is an important channel for making your research visible to colleagues, students, journalists and external partners.

So please ensure that:

  • your researcher profile is up to date
  • your publications are registered
  • your research areas are clearly described
  • your current contact details are provided

Find out more about LUCRIS and the Research Portal:

Make your research visible with LUCRIS | Staff Pages

Do you have news to share or want to reach a wider audience?

Have you been awarded a major research grant, published new research findings, organised a conference or taken part in a current public debate?

Please contact the communications officer and we can discuss together how the news can be shared via the department’s website, the university’s channels or the media.

Lund University is a member of The Conversation UK, where researchers can publish popular science articles for an international audience. The news site’s articles reach a total of ten million readers per month. These readership figures are on a par with science articles from The Guardian and The New York Times.

Read more:

Press and news | Staff Pages

Do you want to communicate your research?

Research communication is about making research accessible and relevant to different target groups – such as fellow researchers, students, decision-makers, journalists and the general public.

The communications officer can help you to:

  • identify target audiences
  • select appropriate communication channels
  • write or edit texts
  • plan communication initiatives
  • disseminate research news
  • highlight research on the website

Find out more about the university’s support for research communication:

Communicate and make your research visible | Staff Pages

Presentations, documents, and web content

If you are producing material for publication or external use, we can help you with:

  • presentations and PowerPoint slides
  • posters and conference materials
  • web content
  • images and illustrations
  • visual identity
  • accessibility

All material published in the University’s name must comply with Lund University’s visual identity and accessibility requirements.

Find out more:

Contact

Do you have any questions or would you like to discuss an idea?

webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Please contact the department’s communications officer)

It’s always a good idea to get in touch early on in the process – it’s often easier to find good solutions before a text has been written, a website has been built or a project has begun. Whether you need support with a text, a researcher profile, a presentation, a seminar or a larger-scale communications initiative, you are welcome to contact the department’s communications officer.

We also have a communications committee that discusses and develops the department’s communications and is always happy to receive feedback and good ideas!

LUCRIS will help you reach out with your research

LUCRIS is Lund University's research information system. The purpose of LUCRIS is to make the collective research of individual researchers, research groups, and Lund University visible. The public interface to LUCRIS is called the Research Portal.

The research information system aims to register and showcase not only Lund University’s research publications, but also projects, collaborations, and other research-related activities. Gathering this information in one place provides a good overview of our researchers and our research activities.

LUCRIS is also used in the University’s and the Faculty’s work on evaluations, planning, and strategy. The information registered in LUCRIS can be highlighted in reports, which can form the basis for strategies and decisions.

LUCRIS provides an overview of how your projects relate to publications, activities, and other relevant things that are entered into the system. Just make sure you connect them and keep your page up to date!

Log in to LUCRIS here

Edit your personal webpage

The employees who have personal pages on our external websites are responsible for keeping them updated. You need to log in to both the English and the Swedish pages.

  1. Log in to our websites:
    Log in to our Swedish website: www.svet.lu.se/user
    Log in to our English website: www.svet.lu.se/en/user
  2. Go to your own personal page and press edit
  3. Don't forget to update your profile in LUCRIS

News and the University's principles for good public research communication

When you, as a researcher or communicator, communicate research via media, social media, events, or in other public contexts, you should strive to follow the University's principles for good public research communication. We should also try to simplify and "translate" science and research into something that people outside the research community can also benefit from. 

As a public authority, Lund University also has a responsibility to promote communication that is accessible to all. To do this, we need to use plain language (plain English) when communicating. Plain language is language that is neat, simple, and understandable.

For guidelines and tips, see: Writing popular science texts | Staff Pages (lu.se) and  Principles for research communication | Staff Pages (lu.se)

News template

When you have a news item, send the following information to the web editor (if possible, in both Swedish and English. If you need help with translating, we also need to check that the translation is correct in terms of the scientific content (feel free to get help from your colleagues for review!):

  • Suggested title (Use a maximum of 90 characters to work on all types of screens, including the names the article concerns without titles)
  • A short, catchy, popular science summary of the publication's content and results in Plain Language (approx. 100 words)
  • Author (s)
  • Title of publication/article
  • Link to publication/article
  • If you want to have your news published on Facebook, let me know 

For news that does not apply to books, book chapters, or articles, please contact the web editor for more information. Likewise, if you have news tips. 

E-mail (web editor): webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (webbredaktor[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

What we will publish on our websites

Which news will, in most cases, be published: 

  • Articles in academic journals (it must have been quality checked by an editor)
  • Books (it must have been quality checked by an editor)
  • Book chapters (it must have been quality checked by an editor)
  • Doctoral dissertation defence
  • Grants and new research projects
  • Student news
  • Special occasions

Which news will, in most cases, not be published:

  • “Our researchers in media” (published only on social media)
  • Conference contribution
  • Keynote speech
  • Posting of doctoral thesis

There can be exceptions to the guidelines above. If so, it will go through the management team.

Who may be the sender of the news

Our employees

Doctoral student who has recently defended his/her thesis but does not have any other employment

Lund University's templates and logotypes

Most templates are available for download in Lund University’s Image and Media Bank. The links provided here lead directly to each template. If you are not logged in to the Image and Media Bank, you will first land on the start page – log in with your Lucat ID to get through to the template.

The Faculty of Social Sciences' communication support

You are always welcome to contact the faculty's communicators for advice and assistance in communication efforts!

Communication and graphic profile

- Who is your target audience? 
- What is your message? 
- How do you get it across?
- What should it look like?

Last updated: 10 Jul 2026 | webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se