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The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study that explores the fashion industry's ethical marketing in its advertising and communication aimed at consumers.  Such ethical marketing and communication can involve companies using messages that reinforce the image that th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thesis-sheds-light-how-fashion-companies-use-greenwashing-marketing-campaigns-contributes - 2025-11-17

Congratulations to Master's student Alice Petersson from the Department who won the prize for her thesis "Opportunities for Agency in Offshore Wind Power in Skåne, Sweden?". in KEFU Skåne's essay competition in December 2023. This is the 38th time that KEFU awards a prize of SEK 20,000 for the best thesis in municipal and regional management, organisation and economics.Watch the film where Alice P

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-won-prize-competition - 2025-11-17

Martina Angela Caretta, docent at the department, is a co-writer of a newly published article in Carbon Brief. The researchers, in the article, addresses their recent study, published in One Earth, where they’ve investigated how the effectiveness of well-established adaptation options in relation to water changes as the world warms. Their findings show that the effectiveness of water-related adapt

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/climate-adaptation-becomes-less-effective-world-warms - 2025-11-17

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Gunnar Törnqvist on April 7th, 2024. Born in 1933 Professor Törnqvist had a long career, marked by his significant contributions to the study of industrial location, the diffusion of innovation, creativity in time and space, and the evolving economic geography of Europe. Also of note was his public service on expert groups and c

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/memory-gunnar-tornqvist - 2025-11-17

On Friday 24 May, PhD Student Mathilde Martin defended her thesis “Mattering at the periphery – Geographies of peri-urban life and its discontents.” Curious about Mathilde’s thesis? Here’s what it’s all about: Amid rising social discontent in the peripheries of Western European democracies, this thesis offers an exploration of “places that don't matter” through the lens of the French Yellow Vests.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mathilde-martin-defended-her-thesis-about-french-yellow-vests - 2025-11-17

Explore this topic in a recently published article (a systematic Scoping Review) by researchers Vasna Ramasar, Martina Angela Caretta and Muriel Côte from the department. This systematic review, which was partially funded by FORMAS grant to Ramasar and Caretta and a internal small grant at the The Department of Human Geography, Lund University, showcases their research interests around extractivis

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/resistance-extractivism-induced-water-insecurity-does-gender-have-role-it - 2025-11-17

Johan Miörner, a researcher at the department, has co-authored a report on behalf of the research institute EAWAG. The report looks at how sustainable cities should develop strategies and practices to reduce water consumption and manage wastewater more sustainably to meet the challenges of climate change. The authors have reviewed six global cities that are already actively developing effective pr

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/less-water-consumption-and-sustainable-wastewater-management-new-report-shows-how-cities-should - 2025-11-17

The Storsjöodjuret, a mythical cryptid* with its roots in Jämtland, was mentioned for the first time as early as the year 1643 and is now being brought up to date again in a new doctoral thesis in human ecology. In the thesis, the author Sanna Händén-Svensson examines how perspectives such as social, cultural, historical and the local affect the shaping of the Storsjöodjuret. The aim of the study

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-human-ecology-thesis-storsjoodjur-cryptid-borderland-between-reality-and-imagined - 2025-11-17

Welcome to Lund University. Which university did you recently come from?– I came from Loughborough University in the UK, where I had been since 2010. Prior to that I was based at the University of Copenhagen for 17 years, hence speak fluent Danish. What is (or has been) the main focus of your research? – My research focuses primarily on low-income housing and livelihoods in urban areas of the glob

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/meet-katherine-gough - 2025-11-17

Over Christmas and New Year, we look forward to a much-needed rest, both for students and department staff. From December 21, 2024 - January 6, 2025, our premises are therefore completely closed. Regular opening hours are valid from January 7, 2025. The Student office opens January 7, as well. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/opening-hours-during-holidays - 2025-11-17

Congratulations to Hanna Bach who defended her thesis "Navigating Sustainable Shipping - Multi-scalar Transition Dynamics in the Maritime Shipping Sector." We took the opportunity to ask Hanna some questions about her research. Why did you choose to focus on the maritime shipping sector? What was it about the subject that interested you from the start?- The sea, boats and ships, and especially sai

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/hanna-bach-defended-thesis-sustainable-transition-maritime-shipping-sector - 2025-11-17

Thomas Malm, Professor of Human Ecology, has published the anthology On Interdisciplinary Paths - Thoughts and Memories. This collection of essays focuses mainly on Oceania, the part of the world where Thomas has traveled and researched the most. The book takes readers on a journey through time and space and in a highly interdisciplinary trajectory. This aligns with Thomas' research career, which

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thomas-malm-publishes-anthology-his-life-researcher - 2025-11-17

The Department is hiring a PhD student in economic geography. The position is connected to research projects that focus on innovation and socio-technical transitions in the urban water management sector – globally and in select high- and middle-income cities. The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally ends with the doctoral cand

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-phd-position-economic-geography - 2025-11-17

Four researchers from the department participated in the “Feminist Festival” in Malmö this weekend. Martina Angela Caretta held a keynote speech titled What do gender and intersectionality have to do with the environment? A feminist talk on climate justice. In her talk, she provided examples from her own research in East Africa, the USA, and Latin America on how gender and intersectionality are fu

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/researchers-shed-light-feminist-geography-festival - 2025-11-17

During this application round four (4) applications were received. A decision has now been taken to award two scholarships, which consequently go to:Beatrice Fäldt - Gender, Children and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - A study on gender relations in the Nicaraguan contextCecilia Emilsson - Chachawarmi and Its Effects on Female Participation in Rural BoliviaWe would like to congratulate our grante

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/results-second-application-round-during-autumn-2014-minor-field-studies-scholarships - 2025-11-17

A research programme in Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUCID) invites applications for up to eight PhD positions and one post-doc position, including PhD in Human Geography and PhD in Human Ecology.LUCID is a Linnaeus programme sponsored by The Swedish Research Council Formas for the period 2008-2018. It operates as a cross-faculty consortium of four departments, coordinated by the fac

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lucid-announces-phd-position-human-ecology-and-phd-position-human-geography - 2025-11-17

Elin Brudin (SGSPL - Bachelor's in Urban and Regional Planning batch 2011-2014) has received a third prize for her Bachelor's thesis in a thesis contest 2014 from Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. Read more (in Swedish). Elin's thesis is available in open access and can be downloaded from Lund University Student Thesis Database. Elin's Bachelor's thesis

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/elin-brudin-receives-prize - 2025-11-17

A new joint report from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) presents the largest venture ever on precision medicine in diabetes. The report includes a detailed overview and roadmap for how this new approach to diabetes medicine can be evaluated and implemented into clinical practice. The role of precision diabetes medicine will be t

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/roadmap-precision-medicine-diabetes-care - 2025-11-17

The research group Nutritional Epidemiology has started a blog, www.nutrition.blogg.lu.se! Esther González-Padilla tells us more about it. ​​​​​What is the blog about?We have started the blog mostly as a tool to inform people, within and outside Lund University, about the news of our group, our projects and activities. But in the future it might also serve as a platform to share and discuss hot to

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-blog-about-nutriton - 2025-11-17

Karin Stenkula, Emily Sonestedt and Sebastian Kalamajski have received grants from the The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. Read about their research projects here. Karin Stenkula, Lund University Diabetes Centre:EHD2: a novel candidate essential for lipid transport and overall glucose homeostasisObesity is one of the main risk factors behind type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. B

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/hjelt-foundations-grant-holders-2020 - 2025-11-17