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Publicerad 10 januari 2017 Professor Per Gunnar Edebalk har skrivit en rapport om "Den nya äldreomsorgen i Sverige. Om framväxten 1965 - 1993”. Rapporten ger en djupare förståelse om framväxten av reformer inom äldreomsorgen. Den beskriver också varför en rad politiska beslut togs i början av 1990-talet i det som kallas Ädelreformen där kommunerna fick ett samlat ansvar för långvarig vård och omso

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/rapport-okar-forstaelsen-90-talets-reformer-inom-aldreomsorgen - 2024-11-19

SASA011 Syftet med kursen är att ge doktoranden breddade och fördjupade kunskaper i klassiska och samtida sociologiska teorier som kan användas vid analys av centrala teman i socialt arbete. Kursen behandlar olika nivåer av, och olika sätt att förstå och förklara, maktrelationer, marginaliserings- och exkluderingsprocesser, social ojämlikhet, främlingskap, klientskap och motstånd. Kursblad SASA011

https://www.soch.lu.se/utbildning/forskarutbildning/doktorandkurser/sociologiska-teorier-socialt-arbete-med-fokus-pa-makt-social-ojamlikhet-och-motstand-75-hp - 2024-11-19

Publicerad 13 januari 2017 Socialhögskolan och Sociologiska institutionen har nominerat professor Jaber F. Gubrium till hedersdoktor vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten. – Jag är mycket glad över att få denna utmärkelse. Den återspeglar inte bara betydelsen av forskningen som den bygger på, den belyser även alla viktiga bidrag från flera framstående samhällsvetenskapliga forskare i Lund och i hel

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/professor-jaber-f-gubrium-utsedd-till-hedersdoktor - 2024-11-19

Published 29 August 2018 Photo: Mostphotos. A changing climate means that citizens will have to take more action to safeguard their lives and property from extreme weather events. At the same time, there are great differences in people’s capacities and resources to do so. In a new PhD dissertation from LUCSUS, researcher Ebba Brink asserts that it is about time that the Swedish climate debate cons

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/swedish-citizens-need-more-support-handle-effects-climate-change - 2024-11-19

LUCSUS' work on gender and equality aims to educate and raise awareness on gender, diversity and equality among staff and students, and to promote a good working environment and collegiality. Gender, Diversity and Equality Committee  The LUCSUS Gender, Diversity and Equality committee’s task is to help out, and consult staff and students, on any concerns that they might have concerning gender, div

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/about-lucsus/gender-diversity-and-equality-work - 2024-11-19

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] rektor [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 11 September 2018 Karolina Skog, Minister of the Environment handed out the prize to LUMES Alumnus Benedikt John in Stadshallen in Lund on the 7th of September LUMES alumni Benedikt John (Batch 20) received The Global Goal Prize (hållbarhetspriset) 2018 from Miljöpartiet Skåne for his master thesis “Time to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-received-global-goal-prize - 2024-11-19

Published 19 September 2018 Photo: Marc Lozano/CC BY-SA 2.0 (the photo is cropped). By adopting methods used by activist citizen movements, municipal level politics can become more inclusive and even pave the way for sustainable transformations. Mine Islar, from LUCSUS, has studied the politics of Barcelona en Comú, an activist citizen platform that came to power in the municipality of Barcelona i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/citizen-activist-movements-can-invigorate-local-politics - 2024-11-19

Published 19 September 2018 LUCSUS' researchers Lennart Olsson, Anne Jerneck, and Mine Islar will lead a work package in the new research project, Migration Governance and Crises, MAGYC. The project will explore how European policies are influenced by political crises triggered by migration. It gathers 13 partners from different European countries, as well as from Lebanon and Turkey.  MAGYC runs f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-part-new-international-research-project-migration - 2024-11-19

Published 25 September 2018 A locked toilet station in the Gazdar Bandh informal settlement in Mumbai. – Sanitation is a major challenge in India. It is partly to do with the high population density, there are more people sharing the same space, and a historically higher cultural and religious acceptance of poor sanitation, says Sara Gabrielsson from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sanitation-more-toilets-informal-settlements-india-need-community-based-ownership-and-state-action - 2024-11-19

Published 2 October 2018 LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd has received a grant from Formas to organise an international conference on loss and damage in spring/summer 2019. The planned 2,5 conference will be hosted at LUCSUS and bring together leading scientists from across sustainability, ecology and climate science under a framework of loss and damage to examine definitions of extreme climate related

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/conference-loss-and-damage-receives-formas-grant - 2024-11-19

Published 16 October 2018 Climate networks aim to strengthen municipalities’ efforts to combat climate change. But membership benefits need to be much clearer communicated in order to utilise the networks’ full potential; and should highlight the importance of network membership to drive local climate politics forward, argues researcher Henner Busch. Today, there exist a number of different transn

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-municipal-climate-networks-can-improve-their-impact-new-research-article - 2024-11-19

By Noomi [dot] egan [at] sfi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 23 October 2018 In order to avoid water conflicts and to stimulate food production in sub-Saharan Africa, large-scale land acquisition must be regulated and focus on food production. These are the conclusions of a new doctoral thesis from PhD Emma Johansson. Emma Johansson’s thesis investigates how land use is affected by larg

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/large-scale-land-acquisition-affects-farmers-ability-produce-their-own-food-africa - 2024-11-19

Published 8 November 2018 Monastery Het Pand in Belgium, one of the locations for the Summer Institute in Economic Geography. Chad Boda recently attended the highly competitive 9th Summer School in Economic Geography. This is a brief reflection on his experience. What is the Summer Institute in Economic Geography?The Summer Institute in Economic Geography (SIEG) represents a unique approach to adv

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/chad-boda-9th-summer-institute-economic-geography-reflections-self-critical-disciplinary-development - 2024-11-19

Published 12 November 2018 LUCSUS researcher Emma Johansson is currently in Cambodia to study linkages between land, water and food. The field trip marks the start of a new post doctoral research project aiming to investigate changes in water use and food production linked to land grabbing. The post doctoral studies are funded by the Crafoord Foundation.  What is the purpose of your trip?I have ab

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-challenges-surrounding-land-are-facing-population-emma-johansson-sets-out-field-trip-cambodia - 2024-11-19

Published 14 November 2018 Gazdar Bandh, an informal settlement in Mumbai, India. In this interview, Ebba Brink reflects on the specific set of sustainability challenges facing informal settlements in India, and how they can be addressed. She is part of the project BInUCom which focuses on how Indian planning and architecture schools can develop their curricula to better address the complex challe

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/urban-dynamics-such-shortage-affordable-land-and-housing-force-urban-poor-settle-hazardous-marginal - 2024-11-19

LUCSUS’ expert list for media includes contact details for researchers with expertise in various areas of sustainability. The researchers can conduct interviews in both Swedish and English.Emily Boyd, Professor Expert in: climate change and resilience, adaptation, politics of loss and damage, extreme weather events, climate change impacts on vulnerable groups.Emily Boyd was lead author for IPCC AR

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/contact/expert-list-media - 2024-11-19

Published 19 November 2018 In their recently published paper, Wim Carton and Lennart Olsson argue that perennial polycultures informed by natural ecosystems promise more sustainable agroecosystems – that has the potential to revitalize the economic foundation of farming and hence rural societies. The paper was published together with the Land Institute in Kansas, USA. Modern agriculture is associa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-article-perennial-agriculture - 2024-11-19

Published 3 December 2018 Iceland features many spectacular waterfalls and river canyons, which have been subject to renewable energy development for decades. (Photo: Henner Busch) In times of runaway climate change, phasing out fossil fuels and increasing the share of renewables is imperative. But this transition is not without pitfalls as shown by a recent study of two large renewable projects i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hidden-price-icelands-green-energy - 2024-11-19

Published 5 December 2018 The disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, art for the SDG:s, and political and personal stories about flying and climate change. This is the focus of three LUCSUS projects that recently received funding from Formas.  Other projects include research on mobilisation for the SDG:s, and an exploration of love in relation to land and place in Zimbabw

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-projects-lucsus-climate-change-flying-and-sanitation - 2024-11-19

By cecilia [dot] von_Arnold [at] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 11 December 2018 LUCUS today, 11th December, presents a new travel policy for staff and associated researchers. It sets out a number of commitments aimed to reduce work-related emissions and takes effect from January 2019. Reducing flying amongst staff is the number one priority, since flying is the single largest source

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-presents-new-travel-policy-reduce-work-related-emissions - 2024-11-19