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Anna Rypi, Veronika Burcar Alm and Malin Åkerström have published an article about young male crime victims with an immigrant background in the journal Nordic Social Work Research. Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions may explain, at least in part

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/young-men-refrain-reporting-crimes - 2025-12-29

Mikael Klintman has written a chapter looking at political consumerism in the toy sector in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. The chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector.Manufacturers cannot assume that parents and other carers do their

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/challenges-making-toy-dreams-come-true - 2025-12-29

Gökhan Kaya at the Department of Sociology defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Aspirations, capital and identity: four studies on the determinants of life chances for young Swedes with an immigrant background”, on 12th September at 14:00 in Stora Algatan's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Susanne Urban, Institutet för Bostads- och urbanforskning, UppsalaMain supervisor an

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/gokhan-kaya-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-29

Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an interdisciplinary group of eig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/urban-creativity-kicks-presentation-lisbon - 2025-12-29

Anders Hylmö at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in sociology ”Disciplined Reasoning. The mainstream-heterodoxy divide and styles of reasoning in Swedish economics” today, 28th September at 10:00 in Eden's auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman, Sociology Department, University at AlbanyChair person of the defence: Professor Mats Benne

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anders-hylmo-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-29

Jugdes are people not robots and emotions are inevitabably part of their daily life. In The Conversation Lisa Flower gives her view on why the US jugde Brett Kavanaugh is not seen as fit to be a jugde. Lisa Flower, studies the sociology of emotions at the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on ways in which defence lawyers represent their clients using emotions and their bodies. Read the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-not-want-angry-judges - 2025-12-29

VINNOVA, Energimyndigheten and Formas have selected Smart Built Environment as one out of five new Swedish strategic innovation projects. The government and industry will initially invest up to 200 million SEK in the program over three years.The investments will cover research, development and innovation in the fields of digital infrastructure, business-driven applications and integration of proce

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/smart-built-environment-new-strategic-innovation-area-sweden - 2025-12-29

In the latest issue of LUM, Jonas Ardö, Senior Lecturer at our department, discusses how to make resources suffice in the Sahel region. Read the article here.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2025-12-29

Emma Li Johansson, PhD student, collaborates with Scientific American graphic science team for visualizing large scale land acquistions for their May 2015 issue. Read article in Scientific AmericanEmma Li Johansson staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/emma-li-johansson-contributed-graphic-scientific-american - 2025-12-29

QS Top University ranking for 2015 places Lund University as the world's twentieth by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 20 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is an improvement from last year's position of 21. Lund University as a whole also climbs to rank #60, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 100 university" motto.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-20-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2025-12-29

ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data portal for a European-wide Greenhouse Gas monitoring network. It offers access to research data from ICOS scientists all over Europe, and provides facilities and IT resources supporting modelling activities for elaborated data products. Hello Alex Vermeulen! What is the Carbon Portal?– The ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data store of ICOS. ICOS is the Gree

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/carbon-portal-access-carbon-research-data - 2025-12-29

Findings from an international research group including Anders Ahlström (main author) and Ben Smith from INES, reveals news that changes the view on neglected areas: the semi-arid ecosystems has a key role in carbon cycling. The group has published their findings in Science. Terrestrial bioshere is absorbing about 1/4 of the carbon dioxide emissions from human activities. So far, rainforests have

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/semi-arid-ecosystems-play-key-role-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-12-29

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Embassy in Washington asked four experts on the Arctic. First to be asked is Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department. Watch her answer or watch all four expert answers.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/why-do-we-need-care-about-arctic-region - 2025-12-29

Daniel Metcalfe, associate senior lecturer at our department, has received a grant from the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for nature and environment in Lapland. The money is to enable him to investigate how grazing insects affect soil processes in the birch forests of Lapland. Visit Dan Metcalfe's staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/money-research-lapland - 2025-12-29

Ylva Persson, PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University, is conducting research on cloned trees. Her aim is to understand how the substances secreted by trees affects, and is affected, by climate. Ylva Persson studies the trees' volatile organic compounds (BVOCs).  It does not only give the plants their characteristic smell, but it also have other effects, such as

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/trees-communicate-and-affect-climate - 2025-12-29

The new ESA (European Space Agency) satellite SENTINEL-2 is now in orbit, producing preliminary test data. The satellites' sensor is unique in terms of having both high spatial resolution, as well as temporal resolution. Data from SENTINEl-2 is used by the Lund Earth Observation research group in their research.For more information, use the following links:https://scihub.esa.int/news/News00029http

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/esa-satellite-provides-remote-sensing-data - 2025-12-29

Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology, has written an article in Miljömagasinet on climate change. It is still possible to influence the ongoing development, he writes. Read article here (Google translated)Staff page of Markku Rummukainen

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-climate-change - 2025-12-29

The latest issue of LUM features Emma Li Johansson's research. The article in LUM mentions the exhibition that will take place at the department on September 17th.Read the article in LUMSee event in our calendarVisit the staff page of Emma Li Johansson

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/article-lum-physical-geographer-uses-art-her-research - 2025-12-29

"Changes in the Arctic Ocean can affect ecosystems located far away on land, " says Dr. Frans-Jan Parmentier at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, lead author of the newly pyublished international study. As the sea ice melts the reflection of sunlight is replaced by absorption by the open sea surface. This increases the temperatures in the area, resulting in activity in th

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/accelerated-methane-emissions-when-arctic-sea-ice-melts - 2025-12-29

The candidate will carry out development, testing and application of the Earth system model EC-EARTH in preparation for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) and the next Assessment Report of the IPCC. Apply no later than October 13th. You'll find the full job announcement here.

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/job-opening-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-system-modelling - 2025-12-29