Published 16 July 2020 In order to make you feel well prepared for the upcoming digital elements of the autumn semester a team consisting of various experts at the university will be on stand-by in a virtual zoom room on August to 27th 2020 between 12-17 to help you with practical and technical questions regarding your upcoming semester. This includes activating your student account, how to use Zo

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/virtual-support-room-new-students - 2025-04-21

Published 2 September 2020

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/principal-torbjorn-von-schantz-wishes-everyone-big-welcome-lund - 2025-04-21

Published 8 October 2020 The Development Research Day is an inter-disciplinary arrangement that was initiated in order to form a meeting ground for all researchers and students at Lund University who share an interest in development issues. About Development Research Day, DRD The first DRD The event was launched in 2002 by the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Since then the resp

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/development-research-day-2020 - 2025-04-21

Published 8 December 2020 Johan Pries, Postdoc researcher at the department, has been granted funding for a three year project. Building on ongoing Vetenskapsrådet-funded research about the Swedish People’s Parks movement, this second project was recently awarded a grant of close to three million from the FORMAS research council. The project will shift from the earlier history of the People’s Park

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/johan-pries-lead-project-called-folkrorelsernas-kulturarv-omvandling-bevarande-och-liv-i-de-svenska - 2025-04-21

Published 15 December 2020 Mads Barbesgaard, lecturer at the department, has received funding for a research project. Mads has received 3.150.000 SEK in support from VR for a post-doc project titled Myanmar’s energy landscapes and the politics of geography. The project examines struggles around expansions of energy infrastructure in the midst of competing state territorialization projects, contest

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/research-funding-myanmars-energy-landscapes-and-politics-geography - 2025-04-21

Published 17 December 2020 A research project led by Muriel Côte, senior lecturer at the department, has received funding. FORMAS will fund a project called “Fair gold? Institutionalising labour and environmental standards along the certified gold supply chain”, as part of their Annual open call 2020 - Research projects for early-career researchers, for nearly 4 million SEK for four years (2021-20

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/research-funding-fair-gold-institutionalising-labour-and-environmental-standards-along-certified - 2025-04-21

Published 7 January 2021 The study aims to assess under what social, economic and spatial conditions that processes of urbanization at the lowest level of the urban hierarchy can promote the livelihoods and welfare of residents in small towns. Together with Ola Hall from the Department and colleagues at the University of Dar es Salaam, Makerere University, University of Ghana and the International

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/agnes-andersson-djurfeldt-has-been-awarded-funding-vetenskapsradet-study-lower-level-urbanization - 2025-04-21

Published 7 January 2021 Markus Grillitsch, Associate senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography, and his team has been awarded for their work with ‘Coffee Break With Researchers’.   The winning platform can be found here http://www.coffeebreakwithresearchers.org

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coffee-break-researchers-won-rsa-media-communications-regional-studies-award - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21

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 - 2025-04-21