Published 26 June 2024 Ida Nafstad. Photo: Emma Lord NordForsk, an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that funds cooperative research between researchers in the Nordics, awarded Ida Nafstad the equivalent of €324,000 as part of a larger research grant. Her research group intends to promote democratic engagement participation among marginalised groups in environmental policy-making.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-strives-amplify-marginalized-voices-nordic-baltic-green-transition - 2025-06-07

Published 26 June 2024 The three grant recipients: Ida Nafstad, Jannice Käll and Anna Lundberg. The Sociology of Law Department received four positive answers for funding requests this month. The Crafoord Foundation funds Anna Lundberg's ”Public employees’ mobilization against the Informers Act” project with 500,000 SEK. Information about the research will be available later this year.They also gr

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Published 27 September 2024 On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalist

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2025-06-07

Published 11 November 2024 The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozam

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2025-06-07

Published 6 December 2024 Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially v

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By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman-Rogowski) - published 10 January 2025 Photo: Tbel Abuseridze | Unsplash Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes aff

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2025-06-07

Published 27 January 2025 Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnog

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2025-06-07

Published 21 January 2025 Patrik Olsson participating in a panel discussion at the conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-06-07

Published 5 March 2025 Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathie

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Published 12 March 2025 The researchers Anna Lundberg, Christina Johnsson, Emma Sundqvist and Jacob Lind. Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border polic

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2025-06-07

Published 3 April 2025 A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2025-06-07

By chekhros [dot] kilichova [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Chekhros Kilichova) - published 16 April 2025 The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at Corvinus University of Budapest. The project gathers a multidisciplinary consortium of nine European academic and r

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2025-06-07

Published 4 June 2025 A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2025-06-07

Published 16 November 2018 Niklas Altermark and Emil Edeborg have published their article “Visualizing the Included Subject: Photography, Progress Narratives, and Intellectual Disability” in the journal ”Subjectivity”. In the article, Altermark and Edenborg examine how photographs are used to create a progress narrative of disability politics that hamper our understanding of how this group is bein

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/photographs-disability-politics - 2025-06-07

Published 19 November 2018 Annika Bergman Rosamond has, together with Michelle Pace (Roskilde), co-authored the article “Political Legitimacy and celebrity politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East envoy 2007-2016”. The article is published in the journal Middle East Critique. This article explores former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role as the official envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-politician-tony-blairs-role-middle-east-envoy - 2025-06-07

Published 27 November 2018 Klas Nilsson has recently received a prize for his dissertation ”The Money of Monarchs”. The award is conferred by Vetenskapssocieteten and was presented at the annual celebration held on November 23. Vetenskapssocieteten exists to promote humanist research, in part by providing support to younger researchers.Nilsson’s dissertation, the Society notes, “makes an important

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Published 29 November 2018 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have published a joint article in “Review of International Studies”, entitled “Misrecognition and the Indian state: The desire for sovereign agency”. In the article, they show how the Indian state is being rethought, restructured and reimagined through Hindu nationalism and how the concept of misrecognition accounts for desires for sove

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-misrecognition-and-indian-state - 2025-06-07

Published 30 November 2018 Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article ”Theorising Feminist Foreign Policy”, which has been published in International Relations. The article advances a new theoretical framework, which enables a thoroughgoing study of feminist foreign policy. It draws upon feminist international relations theory and the ethics of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/theorising-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-06-07

Published 4 December 2018 Maiken Røed has co-authored the article "Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain" published in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article investigates participation bias in the European Commission's online consultations and focuses on the effects of issue characteristics. More i

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Published 19 December 2018 Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elsa-hedling-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-06-07