Organisation and management
The Faculty of Medicine is an organisational unit at Lund University. We are responsible for research and education in medicine, nursing and health sciences.
On this page you can read about where we operate and how we are organised:
- Locations and premises
- Management and leadership
- Departments
- Research
- Education
- Administration, support and research infrastructure
Locations and premises
The faculty's activities are mostly located in the central parts of Lund and Malmö. We are also located at Skåne University Hospital and other healthcare facilities within Region Skåne.
Faculty of Medicine Lund
Faculty of Medicine Malmö
Management and leadership
The Faculty Board
The Faculty Board is our highest decision-making body. The board has overall responsibility for education, research, innovation and collaboration. The board consists of representatives of academic staff, students, other employees and external members.
Faculty Management
The faculty is led by the dean, who represents the faculty inside and outside the university. The management includes the deputy dean and vice deans with specific areas of responsibility. The dean and deputy dean are elected by the faculty.
Other boards, committees and workning groups
Specialised committees deal with matters delegated by the faculty board. Issues may concern, for example, education, research, ethics, safety and the environment.
Boards, committees, and working groups (the faculty's internal website)
The Academic Appointments Board
The Academic Appointments Board prepares and submits proposals for the recruitment and selection of academic positions, with the exception of lecturers and postdoctoral fellows.
The Academic Appointments Board
Departments
The faculty consists of six departments in Lund and Malmö, where research, doctoral education and commissioned education are conducted.
Teachers who teach at undergraduate or advanced level are generally employed by the departments. The faculty's education and programme boards are responsible for education at undergraduate and advanced level.
The highest decision-making body in each department is the departmental board, which is chaired by the head of department. The head of department is responsible for the department's activities , and is supported by a deputy head of department and assistant heads of department with different areas of responsibility.
Read more about our departments:
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö
- Department of Experimental Medical Science
- Department of Health Sciences
- Department of Laboratory Medicine
- Department of Translational Medicine
Research
The Faculty of Medicine has a large number of strong research clustres and centres. Research is organised in research groups, which often collaborate in networks and centres to meet demanding societal challenges. Many centres conduct interdisciplinary and cross-faculty research.
The faculty coordinates four of Sweden's 20 national strategic research areas, which promote innovative thinking and risk-taking in research.
Find research groups
Find specialised research centres
Education
The Undergraduate Education Board has financial and strategic responsibility for our education at undergraduate and advanced level.
Under the undergraduate education board, there are programme boards that work on delegation. The programme boards are responsible for the development, planning and management of courses and degree programmes.
Undergraduate Education Board (the faculty's internal website)
Programme boards (the faculty's internal website)
The doctoral education board is responsible for doctoral education.
Research Studies Board (the faculty's internal website)
Administration and support
Faculty Office
The Faculty Office prepares matters for the faculty board and the faculty management and ensures that decisions made are implemented. The office also provides service, information and advice to departments, education boards and other units within the faculty.
Departmental offices
Each department has an office. They are led by an administrative manager who is, under the head of department, responsible for the office's finances, personnel and other activities. (The links below go to the faculty's internal website)
- Office - Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund
- Office - Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö
- Office - Department of Experimental Medical Science
- Office - Department of Health Sciences
- Office - Department of Laboratory Medicine
- Office - Department of Translational Medicine
Support and infrastructure
MedCUL
The Faculty's Centre for Teaching and Learning (MedCUL) works with issues related to the quality of education and offers training in teaching and learning in higher education.
MedCUL (the faculty's internal website)
Library & ICT
Library & ICT offers support in:
- Teaching and learning
- Research and scientific publishing
- Information supply
IT services are integrated into the library's organisation.
Library & ICT (the faculty's internal website)
Faculty library, visiting page
Centre for Comparative Medicine
The Centre for Comparative Medicine supports the faculty's research with in vivo models.
Research infrastructure and core facilities
Together with other parts of the university, the faculty offers a wide range of high-quality and top notch research infrastructure. One example at the faculty is the Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), which provides a platform for imaging technology that can be used in research on humans and animals.