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Make sure you take a look at the association's homepage. You might be eligible for their scholarship or grant. The application deadline is on 30 September Have you authored scientific texts that are copied for educational purposes at the university level? If so, you can apply for a scholarship of 40,000 SEK.Are you planning to carry out a project that, in a broad sense, could facilitate or stimula

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/apply-scholarships-and-project-grants-lars-salviusforeningen-0 - 2025-11-07

Technical and administrative staff at Lund University (LU) are now welcome to apply to participate in an exchange program with Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa. The program is both digital and physical. It is implemented with funding from the Erasmus+ program.Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/apply-exchange-program-stellenbosch-university-south-africa-2025-2026 - 2025-11-07

The University's Sustainability Plan has been revised. It now includes new sustainability requirements for purchasing and procurement. Logistics and communication have also been given greater emphasis.The aim of the plan is to accelerate the pace of transition to sustainable development – both within the University and in society. At the same time, it aims to make use of the knowledge and skills t

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/updated-sustainability-plan - 2025-11-07

It is time for the LundaPride parade on 6 September. The University participates to highlight this important event and invites you to take part in the Pride parade.We will gather at 13:00 outside the Main University Building, Paradisgatan 2, Lund. At 13:30 we will walk together to Lundagård where the parade will begin.Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/march-your-colleagues-lundapride-parade-6-september - 2025-11-07

Geopolitical issues, medical breakthroughs and cultural history topics have dominated the first eight months of the year. Researchers such as Ming Gao, Tabita Rosendal, Martin L Olsson and Jill Storry are behind some of the most read articles of the year.Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/almost-million-readers-conversation-so-far-year - 2025-11-07

Digitalisation and AI affect us all – whether we work in research, teaching, administration or management. In order to face the future with the right tools and knowledge, we have formed an Ad hoc group to support our employees in developing their expertise in digitalisation and AI.We are launching an AI course for all staff as the semester gets underway. It is a basic course, aimed at those who ar

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-ad-hoc-ai-group-bolster-staff-expertise-digitalisation-and-ai - 2025-11-07

InfraVis, a national research infrastructure for data visualization wishes to inform about their workshops that will help you make the best application possible. To better reach out with their research, researchers at all higher education institutions in Sweden are offered the opportunity to engage InfraVis for data visualization. This applies to all subject areas, from the humanities and social s

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/infravis-call-2025-opens-october - 2025-11-07

For generations, Indigenous and riverine communities in the Amazon have relied on deep ecological knowledge to live in harmony with the rainforest. But, as climate disasters reshape the woodlands, local expertise is often overlooked in environmental policies and scientific studies. A new research project aims to change that. In 2023 and 2024, the Amazon faced severe droughts. Rivers dried up, cutt

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-project-aims-bridge-climate-policy-and-indigenous-knowledge-amazon - 2025-11-07

Exploring issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective this new book by Reza Banakar also maps the development of law and socio-legal research from industrialisation to globalisation and searches for forms of regulation which can effectively meet the challenges of contemporary global/network society Normativity in Legal SociologyThe field of socio-legal r

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-book-methodological-reflections-law-and-regulation-late-modernity - 2025-11-07

The past 12 years they have been educating educationalists worldwide on children's rights through the training programme "Child Rights, Classroom and School Management", sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Per Wickenberg, director of studies at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, recently came back from Kozhikode in India where he and his team were on a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/teachers-should-respect-students-listen-them - 2025-11-07

Professor Reza Banakar’s book Normativity in Legal Sociology. Methodological Reflections on Law and Regulation in Late Modernity has recently been released. It studies of the role of normativity in socio-legal research also looking at the challenges posed to modern law by the socio-cultural implications of globalisation.The book explores issues of methodology from a doctrinal as well as an interdi

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakars-new-book-normativity-socio-legal-research - 2025-11-07

The self-regulation of rickshaw drivers in Bogota, Colombia was the topic of the talk when Ana Maria Vargas Falla presented a chapter of her coming dissertation at the annual meeting of The Law & Society Association in Seattle, May 28-31, 2015. The conference theme was Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global North and Global South.Ana Maria Vargas Falla reports back that there were: "Great di

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/vargas-falla-talked-about-coming-theses-seattle - 2025-11-07

Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during the day. If you have any questions you can call +46 46-222 07 00 from 8 am Monda

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-12-october - 2025-11-07

Isabel Schoultz at the Sociology of Law Department has together with Janne Flyghed at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University been granted 3.9 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for the project Business as usual. Corporate defense strategies against accusations of crime. The project aims to study what strategies companies apply when defending themselves against accusatio

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/39-million-rj-business-usual - 2025-11-07

Hate crimes are a part of the daily lives of many Roma and remarkably often children are the victims. At the same time reports of these crimes are very low as well as solving rates. This is now shown in two reports on hate crime that the Swedish Commission against antiziganism (Kommissionen mot antiziganism) has ordered.Today, Friday 23rd October, hate crimes and which measures should be taken aga

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/why-hate-crimes-antiziganistic-motives-seldom-are-solved - 2025-11-07

The new book by Reza Banakar, Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic, argues that Iranians’ driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, culture and religion. Published by I.B.Tauris (London and New York)Iran has one of the

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakar-explores-dangerous-driving-habits-iran - 2025-11-07

Our researcher Matthias Baier is on of the members in the project “The Annual Report - Words, images, numbers” which has been granted money from Pufendorf Institute. ”The aim of this project is to explore and unfold this multifaceted nature of annual reports”.Learn more on Pufendorf Institute’s websiteMatthias Baier’s personal page 

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/money-pufendorf-institute-research-project - 2025-11-07

Ana Maria Vargas Falla defended her dissertation "Outside the Law: An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá" on June 8 at 13:15. External reviewer: Associate Professor Johan Gärde, Ersta Sköndal högskola.Ana Maria Vargas Falla’s personal page 

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-11-07

Eva Schömer has authored the article "Sweden, a Society of Covert Racism: Equal from the Outside: Everyday Racism and Ethnic Discrimination in Swedish Society” in Oñati Socio-legal Series. Abstract:    Sweden is widely considered to have one of the most equal and gender-equal societies in the world. But the Swedish society is also one in which the Labour Court can find discrimination when a 60-yea

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/schomer-covert-racism - 2025-11-07

Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir co-wrote an article with Halla Gunnarsdóttir, who is the head of policy and partnerships for the newly founded “Women’s Equality party” in UK. In the article they discuss if and how the Nordic countries have something to offer UK in terms of the quest for justice for victim-survivors of sexual violence. This piece was written in relation to a high profile rape case in UK

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/antonsdottir-justice-victim-survivors-sexual-violence - 2025-11-07