By hannah [dot] ekroth [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se (Hannah Ekroth) - published 23 November 2022 The conference brings together scholars, practitioners and students of place branding and the related fields of nation branding, public diplomacy, city branding, country branding, destination branding. The theme of the 2023 IPBA conference is Place branding in times of crisis and uncertainty. We invite s

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Published 24 November 2022 Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash This preconference is organized by researchers at the department participating in an ongoing NOS-HS network on strategic communication. It explores the complex communicative processes by which organizations constitute strategies to “do the right thing” in response to global crises. Over the past few years, we have witnessed a variety of

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Published 20 December 2022 Photo: Singhararith Chea In December the students on the Master's programme in strategic communication organized their traditional Christmas potluck at Campus Helsingborg. The party was held on the top floor C-7, which was decorated for the occasion by the specially appointed party committee. The Christmas tree was dressed, the Christmas cloths unrolled, and the light ga

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Published 11 January 2023 Welcome to join us for a unique research seminar on place branding with researcher and Associate Professor Massimo Giovarnardi, University of Bologna, Italy. Dr Giovarnardi will give a research talk and perform songs from his new combined book and music album “Destinations: Songs for place and tourism management”.  Time: 15 February, 14-16 (sharp!) Place: Mindpark Welcome

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By frida [dot] hessel [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se (Frida Hessel) - published 29 August 2023 This semester, ISK welcomes 46 new master's students from 18 different countries to Campus Helsingborg. The students, who come from Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, among other countries, start their two-year education on the international Master's programme in

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Published 4 September 2023 Hui Zhao and Chiara Valentini are the recipients of the Karen Miller Russell Award for the Most Downloaded Article published in the Journal of Public Relations Research.  They received the award on 7th August from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) the 106th Annual Conference. The awarded paper is Navigating Turbulent Political Wat

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Published 27 September 2023 The research project is funded with 2.2 million SEK from the R&D Fund of the Swedish Tourism & Hospitality Industry. The project aims to increase knowledge about how a destination's various actors, such as hotels, retail, and different associations can offer an inclusive stay for tourists with dogs. The project investigates both the needs of dog owners and how the actor

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/dog-tourism-focus-quality-life-and-destination-resilience - 2025-06-29

Published 4 October 2023 The research project has been rewarded SEK 1.8 million from the R&D fund of the Swedish Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The aim of the research project is to create new knowledge about the role of the tourism industry in vulnerable areas with a particular focus on socially sustainable place attractiveness. At first glance, it seems excellent to create attractive tourist

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/attractiveness-marginalized-places-conditions-tourism-vulnerable-areas - 2025-06-29

Published 10 October 2023 From climate change disasters to the war in Ukraine and the shaky global economy, there is a growing and palpable sense of living in a time of perpetual crisis and uncertainty. How do crises and uncertain times affect place branding discourse and practice and what are the implications for research? In October, researchers and practitioners gather at a unique world-leading

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Published 18 October 2023 A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions across Sweden from varied disciplines such as international relations, political science, sociology, strategic communication and law. The confe

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Published 27 September 2021 A month has passed since the start of the autumn semester. By now, the Sociology of Law Department's two guest professors, Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, are deeply embedded in the institution, where they will stay until June 2022. Anna Lundberg, who started on 1 July, is Professor of Welfare Law and Associate Professor in Human Rights at Linköping University. At the

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Published 6 December 2021 Mikael Lundholm (left) and his main supervisor, Professor Måns Svensson (middle), listening to the comments of Professor Åsa Gunnarsson. Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski On Friday, December 3, Mikael Lundholm’s eight-year doctoral education ended with a successful defence of his thesis “The Social Contingency of Law: Studies of Social Control during Foreclosure in Sweden”. Mik

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Published 10 January 2022 It took Swedish prosecutors six years to prepare the criminal case against former executives of Telia Company for paying several hundred million USD in bribes in Uzbekistan. The Sociology of Law Department's researcher Isabel Schoultz attended the trial to study the defence strategies of the accused. In September 2018, three former top executives of the Swedish telecommun

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Published 28 February 2022 Few bachelor theses make it to publication. But a student currently in the Master's Programme in Sociology of Law recently managed the unusual feat when an international journal published a reworked version of her bachelor's project. Occasionally, a master's student with an aptitude for academic work will see an abbreviated version of their thesis published in a scientif

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-publishes-bachelor-thesis-international-academic-journal - 2025-06-29

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 22 April 2022 Central Asian migrant worker at a construction site in Russia. Photo: Rustam Urinboyev The economic sanctions against Russian following the invasion of Ukraine are having spillover effects in Central Asia. With the prospect of economic and social strain forcing Russian employers to lay off

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrant-workers-risk-mass-unemployment - 2025-06-29

Published 13 May 2022 Welfare policies across the continent are becoming increasingly nationalistic and exclusive toward racialised and poor non-citizens. A socio-legal paper published in Critical Social Policy finds that social services in Sweden and Italy are increasingly ignoring asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants, and internal European migrants when reporting cases of homelessness. The prac

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/racist-and-classist-politics-behind-increased-homelessness-among-asylum-seekers-europe - 2025-06-29

Published 16 June 2022 The two new professors are Anna Lundberg and Ole Hammerslev, who have been guest professors at the Sociology of Law Department since the summer of 2021. On 1 September, Anna Lundberg, Associate Professor of Human Rights, will leave her professorship in Welfare Law at Linköping University and become a Professor of Sociology of Law at Lund University. At the Sociology of Law D

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Published 17 June 2022 Cansu Bostan (left) shaking the hand of the external reviewer, Dr Katrin Seidel (right). Behind them are examining committee member Mark Goodale (far left), and assistant supervisor Martin Ramstedt. On Friday, June 17, Cansu Bostan successfully defended her dissertation Games of Justice: Ethnographic Inquiries on Space, Subjectivity and Law in Northern Kurdistan. She is now

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/unanimous-committee-passed-cansu-bostan-doctorhood - 2025-06-29

Published 21 June 2022 Nicolas Serrano Cardona after the successful defense. On Monday, 20 June, Nicolás Serrano Cardona successfully defended his dissertation Interlegality, Municipalities and Social Change: A Sociolegal Study of the Controversy around Bullfighting in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the 59th PhD student to complete doctoral studies at the Sociology of Law Department. Serrano Cardona's di

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-serrano-cardona-has-received-his-doctorate-degree - 2025-06-29

Published 13 September 2022 The research publisher Frontiers has appointed Senior Professor Håkan Hydén as Special Chief Editor for the sociology of law section of Frontiers in Sociology. Hydén became a professor of sociology of law in 1988. His main research interest relates to norms and what motivates people to act. He has also done comparative studies of legal norms, cyber norms, and social nor

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