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Jana Canavan has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Interspecies Freedom: Toward a Rethinking of Human-Animal Relations'. Congratulations to Dr. Canavan! External reviewer: Senior lecturer Per-Anders Svärd, Södertörns högskolaSupervisors/AdvisorsKalm, Sara, SupervisorBadersten, Björn, Assistant supervisorCudworth, Erika , Assistant supervisor, External personMore information about the thes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jana-canavan-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-07-15

Matteo de Donà and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”Responsible Accountability? Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships, Sustainable Development and Global Health” in the journal Global Policy. In a comparative study of two global health multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs), we investigate the interplay between accountability and responsibility. We show that the ways in which global health MSP

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/de-dona-and-jonsson-about-multi-stakeholder-partnerships-and-responsible-accountability - 2026-07-15

Lisa Strömbom has recently published Agonistic Memory and Peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine (Edinburgh University Press). The book investigates the role of memory politics in societies marked by deep conflict and shows how certain forms of local dialogue initiatives can counteract simplified understandings of a conflict’s history. Drawing on interview-based case studies from t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-explores-memory-dialogues-during-and-after-war-new-book-agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-07-15

Malte Breiding has been awarded the Oscar II Stipend for his doctoral thesis European Sexual Dis/Integration: An Agonistic Paradox of Legitimacy in a Contested Union. The stipend is awarded following a competitive selection process at both the faculty and university level and recognises outstanding doctoral research.Congratulations Malte and well deserved!

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/oscar-ii-stipend-awarded-malte-breiding - 2026-07-15

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has been awarded SEK 6 million through FORMAS’s open call for the project “Church Environments as a Resource in Sustainable Community Building: Between the Enduring and the Changing.” The project is carried out in collaboration with researchers in theology and architecture and explores the institutional and ethical dimensions of how church environments can serve as a resourc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/dalia-mukhtar-landgren-awarded-formas-grant-project-church-environments-resource-sustainable - 2026-07-15

In a new article in Environmental Policy and Governance, Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård, Roger Hildingsson, and Sofía Sacks Ferrari (formerly of the Department of Political Science) compare the adoption of carbon taxes in Sweden and Mexico. Carbon taxation is a key policy instrument for addressing climate change. Putting a price on emissions helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions while generating pu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-knaggard-hildingsson-and-sacks-ferrari-carbon-taxes-sweden-and-mexico - 2026-07-15

Hanna Ekström Pigot has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Diverse People, Diverse Forests? The role of social-ecological interactions in biodiversity governance'. Congratulations to Dr. Ekström Pigot! The opponent is Maja Schlüter from Stockholm University. More information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal:Diverse People, Diverse Forests? The role of so

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-ekstrom-pigot-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis-environmental-science - 2026-07-15

Students from the Department of Political Science's Master's in European Studies joined almost 100 master’s students from Lund, Copenhagen, and Malmö universities to celebrate European Day at the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES) in Copenhagen. In addition to the collective journey over the Öresund crossing, the students enjoyed seminars on ‘The Challenge from Cross-border Crime in Europe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lund-masters-european-studies-students-celebrate-europe-day-seminar-copenhagen - 2026-07-15

In a recent article published in International Studies Review, Roxanna Sjöstedt theorizes and analyzes the role of so-called functional actors in securitization processes. This is an understudied category of actors who, while external to formal decision-making, nonetheless affect threat construction and security agenda setting by requesting, preempting, endorsing, or vetoing securitization moves.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-pandemics-securitization-and-importance-functional-actors - 2026-07-15

Marie Stissing Jensen and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”From global multistakeholder partnerships to local action: the translation of partnerships” in the journal International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (INEA). The case study investigates how the Global Water Partnership translates ideas of partnership at the global level into partnering practices at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stissing-jensen-and-jonsson-about-multistakeholder-partnerships-and-translation-partnering-practices - 2026-07-15

Water crises are often framed as global challenges—but solutions are frequently local, according to a new article by Jesper Svensson and international collaborators. In a new article published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Jesper Svensson and international researchers and practitioners argue that water crises are fundamentally challenges of local governance.The authors highlight h

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-and-international-researchers-local-solutions-water-crises - 2026-07-15

Women's testimonies have changed the way the world recognizes and acknowledges violence in war. Despite this, women remain marginalized in many portrayals and accounts of conflict. Much research has documented wars and their consequences, yet men's experiences dominate our understanding. But our research shows that women’s testimonies shape justice, accountability, and the recognition of wartime v

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-hoglund-and-mannergren-womens-testimonies-reshape-how-war-understood - 2026-07-15

On 17 June, staff and guests gathered at the Department of Political Science in Lund to celebrate the release of the jubilee book Statsvetenskapliga institutionens underbara öden och äventyr. 75 år i samhällsforskningens tjänst. Edited by Magnus Jerneck, the book traces the department’s development into a modern environment for research and education. Through personal testimonies and broader refle

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/book-launch-celebrates-75-years-political-science-lund - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Karin Aggestam has penned a chapter entitled Conflict Analysis and International Relations in the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/conflict-analysis-and-international-relations - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SYMPOSIUM. Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies invites the public to the symposium Social Resistance in Non-Democracies 25-26 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-resistance-non-democracies - 2026-07-15