Published 31 August 2023 The Student Office is now open for the fall semester and you are welcome to visit us between 13.00 - 15.00 on Tuesdays and 09.00 - 12.00 on Wednesdays. Dear students, The Student Office is now open for the fall semester and you are welcome to visit us between 13.00 - 15.00 on Tuesdays and 09.00 - 12.00 on Wednesdays. You can also call us during these hours or e-mail us whe

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Published 20 December 2023 Over Christmas and New Year, we look forward to much needed rest, both for students and the department's staff. Between December 23 and January 7, we are therefore closed (this also applies to the Student office). Regular opening hours apply again from 8 January 2024. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/departments-opening-hours-over-christmas-and-new-year - 2025-01-29

Published 6 February 2024 Welcome to the first season of the KEG-podcast. In each episode you will meet researchers from the department and learn more about human geography research. In the first episode that will be released on February 19 we will talk to researcher Stine Madsen about Sustainable transition in Danish waste management. The interview is held in English. You can listen to the KEG Po

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coming-soon-keg-podcast - 2025-01-29

Published 13 February 2024 Fotograf: Diana Jap, omslagsbild: Milena Bojovic The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study that explores the fashion industry's ethical marketing in its advertising and communication aimed at consumers.  Such ethical marketing and communi

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thesis-sheds-light-how-fashion-companies-use-greenwashing-marketing-campaigns-contributes - 2025-01-29

Published 21 February 2024 Uppsats som behandlar beslutsfattandet om skånska vindkraftverk vinner KEFU:s uppsatspris 2023 Congratulations to Master's student Alice Petersson from the Department who won the prize for her thesis "Opportunities for Agency in Offshore Wind Power in Skåne, Sweden?". in KEFU Skåne's essay competition in December 2023. This is the 38th time that KEFU awards a prize of SE

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-won-prize-competition - 2025-01-29

Published 5 April 2024 Martina Angela Caretta, docent at the department, is a co-writer of a newly published article in Carbon Brief. The researchers, in the article, addresses their recent study, published in One Earth, where they’ve investigated how the effectiveness of well-established adaptation options in relation to water changes as the world warms. Their findings show that the effectiveness

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/climate-adaptation-becomes-less-effective-world-warms - 2025-01-29

Published 24 April 2024 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Gunnar Törnqvist on April 7th, 2024. Born in 1933 Professor Törnqvist had a long career, marked by his significant contributions to the study of industrial location, the diffusion of innovation, creativity in time and space, and the evolving economic geography of Europe. Also of note was his public servic

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/memory-gunnar-tornqvist - 2025-01-29

Published 28 May 2024 On Friday 24 May, PhD Student Mathilde Martin defended her thesis “Mattering at the periphery – Geographies of peri-urban life and its discontents.” Curious about Mathilde’s thesis? Here’s what it’s all about: Amid rising social discontent in the peripheries of Western European democracies, this thesis offers an exploration of “places that don't matter” through the lens of th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mathilde-martin-defended-her-thesis-about-french-yellow-vests - 2025-01-29

Published 10 September 2024 Explore this topic in a recently published article (a systematic Scoping Review) by researchers Vasna Ramasar, Martina Angela Caretta and Muriel Côte from the department. This systematic review, which was partially funded by FORMAS grant to Ramasar and Caretta and a internal small grant at the The Department of Human Geography, Lund University, showcases their research

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/resistance-extractivism-induced-water-insecurity-does-gender-have-role-it - 2025-01-29

Published 12 September 2024 Photo: Pexels, Jason Hu Johan Miörner, a researcher at the department, has co-authored a report on behalf of the research institute EAWAG. The report looks at how sustainable cities should develop strategies and practices to reduce water consumption and manage wastewater more sustainably to meet the challenges of climate change. The authors have reviewed six global citi

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/less-water-consumption-and-sustainable-wastewater-management-new-report-shows-how-cities-should - 2025-01-29

Published 26 September 2024 Per Lindström, Bild och Media The Storsjöodjuret, a mythical cryptid* with its roots in Jämtland, was mentioned for the first time as early as the year 1643 and is now being brought up to date again in a new doctoral thesis in human ecology. In the thesis, the author Sanna Händén-Svensson examines how perspectives such as social, cultural, historical and the local affec

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-human-ecology-thesis-storsjoodjur-cryptid-borderland-between-reality-and-imagined - 2025-01-29

Published 6 November 2024 Welcome to Lund University. Which university did you recently come from?– I came from Loughborough University in the UK, where I had been since 2010. Prior to that I was based at the University of Copenhagen for 17 years, hence speak fluent Danish. What is (or has been) the main focus of your research? – My research focuses primarily on low-income housing and livelihoods

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/meet-katherine-gough - 2025-01-29

Published 18 December 2024 Over Christmas and New Year, we look forward to a much-needed rest, both for students and department staff. From December 21, 2024 - January 6, 2025, our premises are therefore completely closed. Regular opening hours are valid from January 7, 2025. The Student office opens January 7, as well. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/opening-hours-during-holidays - 2025-01-29

Published 23 January 2025 Congratulations to Hanna Bach who defended her thesis "Navigating Sustainable Shipping - Multi-scalar Transition Dynamics in the Maritime Shipping Sector." We took the opportunity to ask Hanna some questions about her research. Why did you choose to focus on the maritime shipping sector? What was it about the subject that interested you from the start?- The sea, boats and

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Published 4 August 2014 Hedda research funds. At Eden, Department of Political Science As the locus of interdisciplinary gender scholarship, the Department attracts scholars with a wide range of backgrounds including anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, family and child studies, education, history, medicine, political science, science and technology studies, sociology as well as ar

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Published 9 June 2020 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Editors: Ov Cristian Norocel; Anders Hellström; Martin Bak JørgensenThis open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are

https://www.gender.lu.se/article/book-nostalgia-and-hope-intersections-between-politics-culture-welfare-and-migration-europe - 2025-01-29

Publicerad 3 februari 2016 I Lokaltidningen Lund går det att läsa 26 oktober 2016  Nyligen tilldelas Odeum och dess director musices Patrik Andersson Lunds universitetshistoriska sällskaps pris på 25 000 kronor.  Årets mottagare får priset med motiveringen ”för den stora betydelse Odeum genom sitt studentburna musicerande har för Lunds universitet, den akademiska miljön och staden Lund. Patrik And

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Publicerad 26 oktober 2016 Wilhelm Theodor Gnosspelius, född i Stockholm 28 december 1809 och avliden i Lund 13 augusti 1887, var violinist, organist, dirigent, musikorganisatör och tonsättare. Han var verksam i Stockholm från 1822, i Linköping från 1843 och i Lund från 1858. Gnosspelius skrev musik i klassisk-romantisk stil, främst tillfällighetskantater, men också kammar- och kyrkomusik. Han ble

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Publicerad 14 november 2016 Inte bara första pris i division 1 utan också hederspris till dirigent Roger Andersson och pris för bästa sektion i division 1 till slagverkssektionen kom brassbandet hem med efter helgens SM i Värnamo. Lunds universitets brassband har under ledning av bandets dirigent Roger Andersson vunnit första pris i division 1 i svenska mästerskapen i brassband. Tävlingarna hölls

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-brassband-tog-hem-brassbands-sm - 2025-01-29

Publicerad 6 februari 2017 Festivalhelgen Lund Contemporary blev en stor publiksuccé, med 1600 besökare på totalt 9 evenemang.   Musikalisk rundvandring på Skissernas Museum. Foto: David Riebe 20 uruppföranden fördelade på sju välbesökta konserter, en föreläsning om förhållandet mellan musik och bildkonst på Skissernas Museum och en paneldebatt om vår tids musik i Kapellsalen - allt detta lockade

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lund-contemporary-drog-1600-besok - 2025-01-29