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Ana Maria Vargas has been awarded the FALF-prize for best doctoral thesis in Sweden 2016 in the field of work and working environment. Her thesis is called "Outside the Law - An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors In Bogota". The jury consisting of the board of FALF, forum for working life research, motivates the choice of thesis as follows:Ana Maria Vargas' thesis provides a very good ethnograph

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/award-winning-account-street-vendors-and-rickshaws-bogota - 2025-12-17

Ann-Christine Hartzén defended her doctoral dissertation ”The European Social Dialogue in Perspective: Its future potential as an autopoietic system and lessons from the global maritime system of industrial relations” today 15th September at one o'clock in room 128 at Stora Algatan 4 in Lund. Discussant: Professor Bettina Lemann Kristiansen, Aarhus University.Grading committee: Håkan Hydén (Lund U

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ann-christine-hartzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-17

This autumn five master's students are doing their internship at the Sociology of Law Department in two different research projects. The Master's Programme in Sociology of Law, SASOL, is a multidisciplinary programme that is given here at the Sociology of Law Department in Lund. During the third semester (out of four) of the programme students have the opportunity to choose an internship course of

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/interns-sociology-law-department-look-child-rights-and-working-life - 2025-12-17

Eva Schömer has published an article in the journal Arbetsmarknad och Arbetsliv (Labour Market and Working Life), which illustrates how personal assistants experience their working environment and which opportunities they have to influence their working conditions from a socio-legal perspective. Eva Schömer links personal assistants' work experience with some of the legal requirements that apply w

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/kind-legal-no-mans-land-says-eva-schomer - 2025-12-17

Isabel Schoultz and Ida Nafstad were on an Erasmus-exchange at University of Sarajevo between 23-27 October. They visited both the Faculty for Criminal Justice Sciences and Criminology, and the Faculty of Political Science. During their stay they held lectures on topics such as Legal pluralism and laws of everyday life, Crime, control and policy and White-collar crime for bachelor and master stude

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/erasmus-exchange-university-sarajevo - 2025-12-17

Many people in Sweden do not know that they are entitled legal help through their household insurance. Doctor Isabel Schoultz reviews legal aid in Sweden in a chapter for the book Legal aid in the Nordic countries, edited by Olaf Halvorsen Rønning and Ole Hammerslev, available online as an open-access source. Today, Sweden has a combination of public and private cover for legal expenses in civil c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/many-unaware-their-right-legal-help - 2025-12-17

On Wednesday 17th January students and researchers gathered in Stadshallen in Lund for the Sociology of Law Department's annual Panorama Day. The panorama day acts as the first meeting between students and researchers and gives students insight into the breadth of research offered by the Sociology of Law Department.Students who study Sociology of Law, both within the Criminology programme and as a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/students-gained-insight-breadth-research - 2025-12-17

COLLABORATION WITH UZBEKISTAN: The Sociology of Law Department at Lund University and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Uzbekistan are closely collaborating within the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programme. Both partner universities exchange academic staff, PhD students, master and undergraduate students within the Erasmus exchange programme.Staff from the Sociology of La

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/language-skills-and-international-workshop-migration-and-informality-when-interns-uzbekistan-visit - 2025-12-17

MASTER DEGREE GRADUATION CEREMONY 4 JUNE 2018. Congratulations to the first group of students who successfully completed our on-campus master’s programme in sociology of law. This interdisciplinary campus-based programme replaced the previous on-line master's programme and means the students now meet regularly for lectures and seminars at the Sociology of Law Department in Lund. The campus-based p

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/first-students-graduate-new-masters-programme - 2025-12-17

The trial against Telia and former employees who are charged with bribery after purchasing 3G licenses in Uzbekistan in 2007 begins this week. Our researcher Isabel Schoultz is in Stockholm's District Court investigating how the company is handling the crisis. – Simply put, you can say that the actual situation may have triggered crime, as it is difficult to combine high profit goals with doing bu

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/our-researcher-following-trial-against-telia - 2025-12-17

The digital platform Child Rights Online has now been launched in 14 countries and will provide teachers and aspiring teachers with a better understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to offer children and young people a more inclusive and equal schooling. In recent years, the Child Rights Institute at Lund University has worked with the international digital platform Global Child

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/better-knowledge-child-rights-when-14-countries-contribute-digital-platform - 2025-12-17

The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect plants’ absorption of nitrogen, which is the nutrient that restricts crop growth in most terrestrial ecosystems. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now revealed that the concentration of nitrogen in plants’ tissue is lower in air with high levels of carbon dioxide, regardless of whether or not the plants’ growth is

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/increased-carbon-dioxide-levels-air-restrict-plants-ability-absorb-nutrients - 2025-12-17

The photosynthesis of tropical species in montane rain forest is very sensitive to high temperature which means high-altitude rain forests are particularly under threat by global warming. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in a study published in the journal New Phytologist. An increase in temperature usually stimulates photosynthesis and growth for plants at our

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-rain-forests-sensitive-temperature-increase - 2025-12-17

The SRA evaluation, new publications in Science and Global Change Biology, researchers in media, and much more. Find the latest MERGE newsletter here - and sign up for the MERGE e-mail list and get all MERGE related news. Among the headlines are:Continuing the journey - Markku Rummukainen sums up the evaluation of the SRA'sIncreased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plants ability to absorb nu

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-newsletter - 2025-12-17

On November 16-17 the 1st Nordic Chapter Risk Conference will be held in Lund. The topic is The Future of Risk Analysis in the Nordic Countries. The conference is open to all researchers, practitioners and policy makers that are working with or are interested in risk research and education. The Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis in Europe and Lund University Centre of Risk Assessment

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/1st-nordic-risk-conference-lund-16-17-nov - 2025-12-17

Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems. According to a study published today in Nature Communications, solar storms could be much more powerful than previousl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/traces-enormous-solar-storms-ice-greenland-and-antarctica - 2025-12-17

Deliang Chen, MERGE researcher at the University of Gothenburg, along with colleagues from four other European universities have published a book that shows the development of European extreme weather for the period 1801-2000. It has involved a huge amount of work to collect and analyse all the meteorological data for the book, entitled European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/europes-extreme-weather-over-200-years-presented-new-book - 2025-12-17

Africa is very vulnerable to climate change. However, challenges remain in understanding the full set of climate impacts for the region. Improved climate models may help contribute to solutions for reducing vulnerability. A step in the right direction, according to the researchers Minchao Wu and Markku Rummukainen, is to incorporate into todays climate models how regional ecosystems are affected b

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/improving-climate-models-reduce-vulnerability - 2025-12-17

Most African countries contribute only marginally to the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The impact varies across the continent and also within individual countries. An improved set of data increases the possibilities for evaluating future risks, and how to best address

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/africas-vulnerable-ecosystem - 2025-12-17

Professor Deliang Chen has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Professor Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and PI in MERGE, has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. He was one of 44 new Fellows elected on the Academy's 26th General Meetin

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-new-fellow-twas-world-academy-sciences - 2025-12-17