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On January 7, you could read an article about one of our researchers, Fillipa Säwe, in the newspaper "Hallå". Here Filippa talks about her research that is focused on the small scale fisheries in Öresund. She also reveals that she in fact does not fisch her self and she tells the story of how she ended up at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies. Erlier this autumn she also cont

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/interview-our-researcher-filippa-sawe - 2025-12-29

The 24th of October we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Marthe Nehl nailed her doctors thesis ”Infrastructuring independent cultural production: Empirical and conceptual explorations”. Nehl is defending her thesis during a defence the 19th of November. "This thesis, which is in the interdisciplinary realm of service studies, addresses current debates in

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/marthe-nehl-nailed-her-dissertation - 2025-12-29

Malin Espersson has been conducting ongoing research into how municipalities work with gender mainstreaming. The results show a lack of commitment from management and politicians, with a risk that the work will become symbolic rather than contributing to change. The Flexit project, funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, started on March 1, 2023, and is a collaboration between the researcher and

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/hypocrisy-gender-mainstreaming-public-administration - 2025-12-29

An international visit to the Department of Service Studies, combined with open research seminars on sustainable consumption, sparked conversations and ideas for future collaboration on the topic. Among the questions discussed were “How can we make it easier to eat less meat?”, “Why do people committed to climate action still fly so much?”, and “Do shared mobility services really reduce private ca

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/international-research-visit-sustainable-consumption - 2025-12-29

The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. More than 350 international students participated in the activ

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/international-student-career-programme-wraps-up - 2025-12-29

It is six times more expensive for society – and for you individually - if you travel by car instead of cycling. This has been shown in a Department of Service Management and Service Management study of Copenhagen, a city of cyclists. It is the first time a price has been put on car use as compared to cycling.  In the comparative study, Stefan Gössling from Lund University and Andy S. Choi from th

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/six-times-more-expensive-travel-car-bicycle-study - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

The prize, one of the leading international honours in socio-legal studies, recognises Hydén’s long impact on the field, both as a pioneering theorist and an influential mentor. In their award citation, the jury lauds Professor Emeritus Håkan Hydén for promoting the establishment of sociology of law as an autonomous social science and developing it into what he has defined as a science of norms. H

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/hakan-hyden-awarded-podgorecki-prize - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29

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 - 2025-12-29