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The Swedish Basal Ganglia Society We are happy to announce the formation of SWEBAGS - the Swedish Basal Ganglia Society. SWEBAGS is a nationwide non-profit organization providing a platform for scientific discussion and education in basal ganglia-related research. We aim to foster multidisciplinary collaborations across biological scales and methodological approaches. All professionals, students a
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/swebags-launched - 2025-12-13
A research group from Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand a specific type of neuron that could underlie several brain disorders including schizophrenia, epilepsy and autism, and are developing exciting new strategies to treat them. Read the full article here.
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/restoring-neural-networks-and-understanding-brain-disorders - 2025-12-13
Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social investment as a tool for municipal governance and organization?" The project anal
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2025-12-13
Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds personal web pageAnnika Kronsells personal web page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2025-12-13
Ted Svensson has co-authored an article that was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. It is entitled 'Lessons from the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India'. The article, which is informed by a self-categorisation and social-identity framework of identity entrepreneurship as well as social r
Tomas Bergström, Head of Department of Political Science, explains the rule of thumb of a 40-60 percent ratio between female and male authors represented in course reading lists. "Only one of many tools for generating awareness of gender issues among the department’s staff and students." How are reading lists adopted at the Department of Political Science?In light of the information about the Depa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/objective-serves-tool-reflection-not-straightjacket - 2025-12-13
The teacher representatives on the board of the Department of Political Science in response to Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein's guest editorial in SvD concerning gender distribution among authors on course reading lists. In a guest editorial in the daily SvD on 7 November, Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein expresses indignation about the Department of Political Science’s alleged lack of respect and confi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/guideline-gender-distribution-does-not-influence-course-content - 2025-12-13
Karin Aggestam och Ann Towns have edited a new book on Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation (Palgrave). About the book:This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research agenda, including new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on gender, p
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-aggestam-towns-gendering-diplomacy-and-international-negotiations - 2025-12-13
Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson inquires into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our understanding of the modern political world and the role of war within it. As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoun
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-war-international-thought - 2025-12-13
Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the book chapter 'Säkerhet’ (Security) in the book Politik och Kön: Feministiska Perspektiv på Statsvetenskap, (translation: Gender and Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Science) edited by Lenita Freidenvall & Maria Jansson (Studentlitteratur). Link to book at Studentitteratur.seLink to Annika Bergman Rosamond's personal web page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-security-book-about-feminist-research - 2025-12-13
Catarina Kinnvall has together with John Cash edited a Special Issue in Postcolonial Studies (vol. 20, issue 3, 2017), entitled: ’Postcolonial Bordering and Ontological Insecurities’. Current and former colleagues at the Department, Ted Svensson and Emil Edenborg, also contribute articles to the Special Issue For more information, see: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpcs20/current?nav=tocList
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/special-issue-postcolonial-studies-edited-catarina-kinnvall - 2025-12-13
Karin Aggestam, professor at the Department of Political Science and Ann Towns, associate professor at Gothenburg University have co-authored "Diplomacy: A Gendered Institution” i boken Diplomacy in a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press). About the book: In Diplomacy in a Globalizing World twenty-three respected scholars contribute to the debate about the changing nature of contemporary dip
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-ann-towns-women-and-global-diplomacy - 2025-12-13
At the turn of the year, Björn Badersten and Lisa Strömbom will take up their respective posts as head and assistant head of the Department of Political Science, respectively. They were both unanimously elected by the staff in mid-October, in an election held once every three years. Björn Badersten was previously assistant head of department, while Lisa Strömbom was the director of Peace and Confl
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/continued-academic-freedom-guiding-light-new-leadership - 2025-12-13
"Woodworlds: Stories of desire and grief in the Swedish forest" is a new research project led by Johannes Stripple and funded by BECC - The Swedish government’s strategic research area on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate. About the project from the Decision about research funding in BECC for 2018-20:J. Stripple (Political Science, LU); Woodworlds – Stories of desire and gr
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-swedish-forest - 2025-12-13
Niklas Altermark has recently published his book Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation with Routledge. The book advances and builds on his dissertation and deals with how people with intellectual disabilities are being governed. In addition, Altermark has also published an article, entitled 'Legitimising Austerity: The construction of Personal Ass
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-niklas-altermark-how-people-intellectual-disabilities-are-governed - 2025-12-13
Fariborz Zelli and Ina Möller convened a workshop on ‘Theory and Methods of Institutional Complexity in Global Governance’ in Duisburg Germany, 30 November – 1 December 2017. Participants included leading international experts on this topic such as Kenneth Abbott, Lasse Gerrits, Jessica Green, Peter Haas, Philip Haynes and Sebastian Oberthür. Global governance today is increasingly characterized b
Tomas Bergström is stepping down as head of department after nine years at the helm, twelve if you count his time as assistant head of department. During his time as head of department, the department grew by 50 per cent, external funding tripled, internationalisation proceeded at record speed, English became the working language at the department and Eden was refurbished. In the corner office on
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/tomas-bergstrom-hands-over-growing-eden - 2025-12-13
Mats Fred will defend his dissertation "Projectification. The Trojan horse of local government" tomorrow on February 16 at 10:15 in Niagara, Malmö University. Discussant is professor Stig Montin from University of Gothenburg. Projectification. The Trojan horse of local governmentMats Fred’s personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mats-fred-defend-his-thesis - 2025-12-13
Elsa Hedling’s and Douglas Brommesson’s article "Security through European integration or flexible autonomy: ambivalence in Sweden’s position on the Eastern Partnership” has been published in Global Affairs. In the article Hedling and Brommesson explore Sweden’s multiple roles in foreign policy in relation to its actions as an EU member state, seeking also to contribute to the understanding of sma
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-and-brommesson-swedens-security-policy-ambivalence - 2025-12-13
Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson have received funding from the Research Council Formas for the project "Putting a price on carbon emissions: what makes states adopt carbon pricing policies?". The project will answer the question which factors influence states to adopt carbon pricing policies (carbon taxes and emissions trading systems), by mapping the states and sub- and supran
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/grant-money-two-projects - 2025-12-13
