Publicerad 6 november 2024 Möt en av våra nya professorer på institutionen, Katherine Gough. Välkommen till Lunds universitet. Vilket universitet kommer du närmast från?– Jag kom från Loughborough University i Storbritannien, där jag varit sedan 2010. Dessförinnan var jag verksam vid Köpenhamns universitet i 17 år och talar därför flytande danska.Vad är (eller har varit) huvudfokus för din forskni

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/mot-katherine-gough - 2025-01-09

Publicerad 18 december 2024 Under jul och nyår ser vi fram emot en välbehövlig vila, både för studenter och institutionens personal. Från den 21 december 2024 - 6 januari 2025 är våra lokaler därför helt stängda. Ordinarie öppettider gäller från och med den 7 januari 2025. Studentexpeditionen öppnar också den 7 januari. God jul och gott nytt år!

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/oppettider-under-jul-och-nyar - 2025-01-09

Publicerad 5 september 2014 Corinna Burkhart (Masterprogram i Humanekologi, kull 2011-2013) har fått ett pris - "Kapp Research Award for ecological economy" -  for sin CPS masteruppsats "Who says what is absurd? A case study on being(s) in an alternative normality"! Läs mer (på tyska). Corinnas uppsats är tillgänglig och kan laddas ner från Lunds Universitets Databas. "Who says what is absurd? A c

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/alumn-fran-masterprogram-i-humanekologi-har-fatt-ett-pris - 2025-01-09

Av louise [dot] howes [at] kilu [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Howes) - publicerad 7 oktober 2021 Hur lämnar vi den fossila eran bakom oss? Välkommen till två inspirerande halvdagar där du lär dig mer om hur vi kan ställa om till en cirkulär och biobaserad ekonomi. Vi visar också hur denna omställning öppnar upp nya affärsmöjligheter för entreprenörer och företagare och vi bjuder på en bred palett av k

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/sv/artikel/dags-att-anmala-sig-bioekonomiriksdagen-7-8-dec-2021 - 2025-01-09

Av louise [dot] howes [at] kilu [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Howes) - publicerad 19 januari 2022 Nu kan du se innehållet från Bioekonomiriksdagen i efterhand! Under de kommande två veckorna finns filmer från Bioekonomiriksdagen att se via Region Skånes hemsida. Inspelningar av varje presentation och paneldiskussion kan ses individuellt, eller man kan välja att se båda förmiddagarna fullt ut. Missade

https://www.lubirc.lu.se/sv/artikel/se-bioekonomiriksdagen-i-efterhand - 2025-01-09

Published 14 November 2022 A study has recently been published on how the Kremlin circumvented EU sanctions on Russian state media in the first weeks of the illegal invasion of Ukraine. In a recently published journal article, James Pamment discusses some of the tactics the Kremlin used to circumvent the EU’s 2022 state media sanctions. The study finds that while the initial “fog of information wa

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/impact-eu-sanctions-russia-state-media - 2025-01-09

Published 9 January 2023 A capability definition and assessment framework for countering disinformation, information influence, and foreign interference The NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence recently published a report titled A capability definition and assessment framework for countering disinformation, information influence, and foreign interference. In the report, the author Ja

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/capability-report-1 - 2025-01-09

Published 8 February 2023 Microsoft uses framework for attribution developed by Pamment and Smith Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC) is attributing a recent influence operation targeting the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attribution made builds upon a framework for attribution developed by James Pamment at the PDRI and Victoria Smith, presented in the report “Attribut

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/attribution-framework-used-microsoft - 2025-01-09

By psychologicaldefence [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se (Psychological Defence Research Institute) - published 17 October 2023 Research Conference in Lund, 10-11 October 2023 A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions

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Published 17 October 2023 Photo: Fredrick Tendong/Unsplash Video games have captured the spotlight for decades, sparking debates about their impact on players since the early 1990s. Played by over 3 billion people worldwide, this report acknowledges video games' political and ideological dimensions and their potential for being used for strategic communication and propaganda purposes. It attempts

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/video-games-tool-malign-foreign-interference-and-info-influence - 2025-01-09

Published 6 December 2023 A new report on Russian influence tactics has been published by the Psychological Defence Research Institute. This report analyses Russian information influence tactics on social media platforms following the atrocities committed by Russian troops in Bucha, Ukraine, in March 2022. The analysis focuses on the Bucha massacre as a significant news event to demonstrate how th

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/new-report-russian-influence-tactics - 2025-01-09

Published 19 February 2024 Members of the ADAC.io consortium at meeting in Lund ADAC.io - Attribution – Data – Analysis – Countermeasures. InterOperability, a Horizon project started on 1 February. A week later, the partners of the ADAC.io-consortium met at the Old Bishop's House at Lund University to elaborate on the details of the project that is planned for three years. The seven partners of AD

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/consortium-meeting-adacio - 2025-01-09

Published 23 March 2024 The latest report from the Psychological Defence Research Institute is now available: Building Resilience and Psychological Defence. It outlines an analytical framework, guidebook, and template addressing six dimensions of hybrid threats and foreign influence and interference from a nation-state perspective. Acknowledging that these types of threats are complex and multifac

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/new-research-report-building-resilience-and-psychological-defence - 2025-01-09

Published 13 June 2024 Picture by the EU Commission Hedvig Ördén, Security Studies Researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute, discusses the European disinformation landscape and its developments over time on “Konflikt”, broadcasted by Radio SwedenAbout the podcast episode “The fight for the truth ahead of the EU elections” (link to podcast in Swedish: Kampen om sanningen inför EU-

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/podcast-fight-truth-ahead-eu-elections - 2025-01-09

Published 13 June 2024 At the 10th annual Riga StratCom Dialogue conference, organized by the NATO Strategic Communications COE, over 700 participants attended. Two members of the Psychological Defence Research Institute participated in panels, presenting the following topics:In the panel "Attribution of Information Influence Activity," James Pamment presented a framework developed for NATO by him

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/interventions-pdri-members-natos-conference-strategic-communication - 2025-01-09

Published 20 September 2024 At EU Days in Lund on 17 September, members of the Psychological Defence Research Institute, together with a representative of the Swedish Defence University, debated disinformation and its impact on European security. A panel at the EU Days in Lund reflected on the current security situation in Europe and its challenging communicative environment. The debate was held u

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/eu-days-lund-debate-disinformation - 2025-01-09

Published 27 September 2024 Conference held at the Old Bishops House in Lund Focusing on the intersection of research and practice, the second annual research conference on psychological defence was held in Lund on 24-25 September 2024. The conference gathered 60 participants from the Nordic countries, with the majority of attendees from the Swedish public and private sectors as well as academia.

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/research-conference-psychological-defence - 2025-01-09

Published 27 September 2024 "Japan Close Up," a platform managed and operated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan, recently published an article by James Pamment, Director of the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University, on disinformation in the Japanese context: Strengthening Digital Integrity: How Japan can Tackle Disinformation. 

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/disinformation-japanese-context - 2025-01-09

Published 17 October 2024 EU Commissioner Vera Jourová Vice-President of the EU Commission, Vera Jourová, recently published an assessment of online information interference in the June 2024 elections for the European Parliament, to which the Psychological Defence Research Institute contributed. The announcement and the full memo to be found at the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/p

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/online-information-interference-2024-elections-european-parliament - 2025-01-09

Published 29 October 2024 Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) is not a new phenomenon. Since the end of the Second World War, when Sweden seriously began to work with psychological defence to respond to various forms of hybrid threats, the issue has been prevalent and developing. The report Psychological Defence: Concepts and Principles for the 2020s not only portrays the evol

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/new-report-concepts-and-principles-psychological-defence - 2025-01-09