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The Swedish Research Council has decided that the Kerstin Hesselgren professorial chair for 2019 will be held by Robyn Eckersley, professor of Policitical Science at the University of Melbourne Australia. During her time in Sweden she will work at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Full article (in Swedish) at The Swedish Research Council web site: Beslut om Kerstin Hesselgren

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/robyn-eckersley-lund-guest-professor-2019 - 2025-12-21

Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration, Niantic’s location-based vi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-12-21

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15 PM in Edens lobby. The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-12-21

Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European countries. Link to articleHanna

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-12-21

Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-12-21

Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "technocrats" has not increased s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-12-21

The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice in earth system governan

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-12-21

Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize winners.The SO research p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-12-21

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jama'at stands for and att

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-12-21

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Altermark, Sara Kalm and Anders

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-12-21

Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute. Critical Animal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-12-21

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the reform of the EU’s greenhous

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-12-21

A new LUCC Coordinator has been appointed by the Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. Professor Sophia Zackrisson has been appointed as the new LUCC coordinator for a 3-year period and she will replace Kristian Pietras as coordinator from March 1st 2021. Nomination of coordinator candidates took place during December 2020 until the end of February 2021 and the Dean of Faculty of Medicin

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-lucc-coordinator - 2025-12-21

New board members: Jesper Petersson and Stefan Jovinge Jesper Petersson, R & D Director Region Skåne will replace Hannie Lundgren (from April 2021) and Stefan Jovinge will replace Ingemar Petersson as representative Region Skåne (Head of Research at Skåne University Hospital) from Autumn 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-members-lucc - 2025-12-21

New board member: Gottfrid Sjödahl Gottfrid Sjödahl will replace Helena Persson as representative for Future Faculty with starting date 14 September 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-member-lucc-0 - 2025-12-21

New PhD student representative: Axel Bengtsson Axel Bengtsson will replace Gjendine Voss as PhD student representative in the LUCC board for the academic year 2021/2022.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-phd-student-representative-lucc-board - 2025-12-21

New board member: Catarina Lundin Catarina Lundin has replaced Bodil Ivarsson as representative for Region skåne with starting date 8 December 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-member-lucc-1 - 2025-12-21

Several calls within LUCC have been open during Spring 2022 in different areas - innovation, nursing & rehabilitation and pancreatic cancer (private donation). The awardées were presented during the LUCC retreat which took place on 5 May 2022 in the Skåne University Hospital Lecture Hall in Lund. Charlène Estrada, Postdoctor, with the project "Study of cancer-associated fibroblasts heterogeneity a

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/grants-researchers-private-donation-and-lucc-strategic-funding - 2025-12-21

Skåne University Hospital Cancer Centre (SUHCC) has been accredited as Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC) by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI). The accreditation as Comprehensive Cancer Centre means that an organisation has been approved according to the highly set quality criteria of the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI). Skåne University Hospital Cancer Centre

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/skane-university-hospital-cancer-centre-accredited-comprehensive-cancer-centre - 2025-12-21

Mef Nilbert will replace Lisa Rydén as representative for Skåne University Hospital in the LUCC Executive Group, starting 1 July 2022. Vinay Swaminathan will replace Håkan Axelson as representative for education in the LUCC Executive Group, starting 1 January 2023.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-representatives-lucc-executive-group - 2025-12-21