Published 7 January 2021 Human Geographer Nicklas Guldåker at the department maps socio-economic conditions for an award-winning book about organized gang crime in socially disadvantaged areas (link to news article and book in Swedish).  

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/human-geographer-lund-university-maps-socio-economic-conditions-award-winning-book - 2025-03-09

Published 7 January 2021 The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund Un

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/erik-renstrom-new-vice-chancellor-lund-university - 2025-03-09

Published 9 February 2021 On 11 February 2021 at 10.00-14.00 all students and recent graduates from Lund University and Malmö University are invited to a virtual career fair.  During the fair you will get the opportunity to network with over twenty different employers through chat and video calls. The participating organisations offer full-time jobs as well as summer jobs and internships in severa

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/virtual-career-fair-2021 - 2025-03-09

Published 20 May 2021 Online support, meet-ups and events - Campus Online is a new joint effort between all faculty programmes, departments and the Social Sciences Student Union. The aim is to create a meeting space for you at a time when physical meet-ups are discouraged.  You can read more about the initiative and join at Canvas. 

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/campus-online - 2025-03-09

Published 16 February 2021 Last application date 25th of February. To read more about the position and how to apply, visit this page. More information on the PhD program at the Department of Human Geography    

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/1-4-doctoral-candidate-positions-human-geography - 2025-03-09

Published 20 May 2021 Due to the current spread of covid-19 in Sweden, teaching is right now carried out using digital tools (online). Teaching that needs to be campus-based is conducted in adapted forms in order to follow the recommendations to reduce spread of infection.  We are striving to ensure that all courses will have campus-based elements again as soon as possible, but expect that the who

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/digital-2021-spring-semester - 2025-03-09

Published 25 February 2021 What can the research community at Lund University bring to the table in order to advance the knowledge for sustainable development? Call for abstract open until March 21 What can the research community at Lund University bring to the table in order to advance the knowledge for sustainable development? At this conference, we ask researchers at Lund University for researc

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/knowledge-sustainable-development-lund-university-research-conference - 2025-03-09

Published 11 March 2021 Coffee Break with Researchers is an online platform that strives to make scientific knowledge accessible to all through the production of videos and podcasts with researchers while having a coffee. The project cover published papers, research projects, and teaching content. To read more about the award-winning initiative, visit their website: https://coffeebreakwithresearch

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coffee-break-researchers-marcus-grillitsch - 2025-03-09

Published 29 April 2021 Sustainability Week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and the City of Lund. Sustainability week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness and for inspiring sustainable change. This year's sustainability week consists of digital events, outdoor exhibitions, wo

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-week-2021-3-8-may - 2025-03-09

Published 1 September 2021 The Student Office at the Department has opened up again, but now virtually. The office is open via zoom in order to help with any study administrative issues or questions you might have. We can for instance help you with  Registration and re-registration on courses Reporting of study results Access to course pages on Canvas Issuing of study certificates and official tra

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/virtual-student-office - 2025-03-09

Published 6 September 2021 Hereby, the Torsten Hägerstrand Fund announces two scholarships, to an amount of 12000 Swedish crowns each. One scholarship is directed to human geography, and one to physical geography. They are primarily directed at younger doctors or doctoral students in the latter part of their studies. The scholarships are meant to cover costs for fieldwork or travel to conferences.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/torsten-hagerstrand-scholarship-announcement - 2025-03-09

Published 12 October 2021 Johan Pries at the Department talks about the densification of Malmö. We are happy to share this news article with you, in which Associate Senior Lecturer Johan Pries discuss the densification of Malmö. You can find the article at this link: https://www.dn.se/sverige/upprort-nar-politiker-vill-fortata-stadernas-mest-utsatta-delar/.  

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/johan-pries-dn - 2025-03-09

Published 12 October 2021 Mariko discuss the femwashing of clothing commercials in Dagens Nyheter. We are happy to share yet another news article from DN in which our Department is represented! PhD student Mariko Takedomi Karlsson discussed Femwashing and Greenwashing in the clothing industry, which is related to her research project. You can read the article HERE. To read similar research by Mari

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mariko-takedomi-karlsson-discuss-femwashing-dn - 2025-03-09

Published 17 February 2022 A child on a bike, cycling through exhaust fumes on their way to school. Photograph: Aulia Erlangga How vulnerable is humanity in relation to climate change? And how is it impacting livelihoods today? These are some of the questions answered by the IPCC on February 28th. Martina Angela Caretta, senior lecturer at the department, is authoring one of the chapters in the fi

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/martina-angela-caretta-author-un-climate-report - 2025-03-09

Published 18 February 2022 The student office at Geocentrum 1 is opening up again. You are welcome to visit us on: Wednesdays 09.00 - 12.00 Thursdays 09.00 - 12.00

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/student-office-opening-hours - 2025-03-09

Published 2 March 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens international peace and security and violates international law and the European security order. Lund University stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian higher education institutions. Please read more about this on the Univerity's central page HERE.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/regarding-situation-ukraine - 2025-03-09

Published 16 March 2022 The 2022 PhD positions in Human Geography have now been advertised! The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally ends with the doctoral candidate publicly defending his/her printed doctoral thesis. The holder of a doctoral position has a primary obligation to successfully fulfil the third cycle of education

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/2022-phd-positions-human-geography - 2025-03-09

Published 7 April 2022 Between April 4–19th the University's general study guidance service offers drop-in guidance over phone and zoom. Between April 4–19th the University's general study guidance service offers drop-in guidance over phone and zoom, every work day between 10.00 - 14.00, and between 14.00 - 18.00 on April 7th and 13th.  You can find more information about this on Lund University's

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/drop-study-guidance - 2025-03-09

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 11 May 2020 Andrea is studying the last semester of the Artistic bachelor's program in composition and is awarded this year's Annik and Lars Leander scholarship of SEK 35,000. Congratulations Andrea, you are the twenty-third students who are awarded this scholarship, please tell us how you will use it!-Thank you! I wil

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/andrea-ek-receives-years-scholarship-composition - 2025-03-09

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 15 May 2020 eng subs avaliable Markus Tullberg is one of our postgraduate students in the research programme in Music education. Listen to him talk about his project about the relationship between musicians and their instruments. And his love for the Simple-System flute. "I'm trying to develope a model that explains th

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/close-postgraduate-student-markus-tullberg - 2025-03-09