Ethics Council

The Ethics Council’s tasks include:

• external monitoring, nationally and internationally, of ethical issues relevant to education and research at the faculty 
• monitoring of ethical issues within the University, including the work of Lund University’s Council for Ethics and Academic Freedom  
• proposing education initiatives for teaching staff and researchers concerning ethics and adjacent areas, such as data processing
• responsibility for seminars concerning ethical issues 

The Ethics Council is appointed by the Faculty Board and is composed of
• chair (dean, pro dean or vice dean)
• the faculty’s ethics advisor
• the faculty's research representative
• data protection coordinator at the Social Sciences Faculty Library
• two teaching staff representatives
• two student representatives

See the Swedish version of this page for a list of the council’s members.