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Av agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - publicerad 3 september 2024 Ny chef över serviceenheterna, Mikael Rydahl. Foto: Agata Garpenlind. Den första augusti blev Medfaks förre HR-chef, Mikael Rydahl, chef för Med-service, BIKT, CCM och Universitetsveterinären. Den nya ledningsmodellen ska synkronisera servicearbetet och ge en bättre och mer anpassad service för al
Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 3 september 2024 Med en löpande dialog om jobbet blir uppföljningssamtalet mest en formalitet. Vet din chef vad du gör på jobbet, vilka utmaningar du har och hur väl du utfört dina arbetsuppgifter? Om inte, så har du en chans att berätta det i det stundande uppföljningssamtalet, senast 4/10. – Men det är i den löpande d
https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/uppfoljningssamtalet-sa-far-ni-till-en-bra-dialog - 2025-07-09
Av jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - publicerad 4 september 2024 Från vänster: Jan Lexell på plats vid Paralympics i Paris som medicinskt ansvarig under spelen. I bakgrunden ser vi Paralympics oficiella maskot i medicinklädsel. Maskoten är inspirerad av en frygisk mössa, en historisk frihetssymbol. Just nu är Paralympics, parasportens motsvarighet till OS, i full gång
https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/paralympics-i-paris-var-man-pa-plats-med-stort-engagemang - 2025-07-09
Published 30 September 2024 Professor Annika Björkdahl, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The book “Peace and the Politics of Memory”, Manchester University Press, co-authored with Johanna Mannergren, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler and Timothy Williams provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. I
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-et-al-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-07-09
Published 4 October 2024 Visiting political scientists from the University of Denver discuss the upcoming U.S. election with students in a packed auditorium at Eden, moderated by Professor Jonathan Polk. On Thursday, the Eden auditorium was filled with students when the Department of Political Science was visited by researchers from the University of Denver to analyze and discuss the political sit
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-house-when-visiting-political-scientists-denver-discussed-upcoming-us-election - 2025-07-09
Published 10 October 2024 To what extent does moderation in ideological positioning by social democratic parties affect their short- and long-term electoral fortunes? This chapter builds on our prior work to further probe whether there is a link between moderation and individual voters’ shifts from social democratic parties at a later point, by considering a larger number of cases and by different
Published 11 October 2024 Guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students in the Eden auditorium. Brilliant guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students and an insightful and thought-provoking research seminar with Jason and Madubuko Diakité on popular culture, racism, world peace, democracy, agency, space and "exercising citizenship"! Thanks! Jason Diakité och
Published 17 October 2024 Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press. AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-time-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2025-07-09
Published 25 October 2024 Hello Ian Manners! Lund University has recently committed itself to student-centred education to improve the quality of learning and teaching on campus. Could you tell us more about the motivation behind this focus? – Certainly! Lund University aims to create a learning environment where students are at the heart of the educational process, and a crucial part of that is t
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-active-learning-social-science - 2025-07-09
Published 4 November 2024 Lisa Strömbom, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political Science. Photo: Johan Persson. Lisa Strömbom, together with Gustav Agneman (LU and Trondheim University) and Angelica Rettberg (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá), has published the article “Do Apologies Promote the Reintegration of former combatants? Lessons from a Video Experiment in Colombia” in Journa
Published 8 November 2024 Associate Professors Isabel Bramsen and Lisa Strömbom, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Isabel Bramsen, Lisa Strömbom, and Kasia Jezierska have received funding for the project "The United Nations as a Platform Enabling Agonistic Contestation and Engagement? (UNPEACE)" to analyse the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly meetings about Israel-P
Published 21 November 2024 This article explores legitimation attempts by global multistakeholder partnerships that seek to support implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. This generation of global partnerships faces strong expectations on obtaining synergies between policy fields and between the actors involved. We examine self-legitimation in a comparative study o
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-legitimacy-challenges-multistakeholder-partnerships-2030-agenda - 2025-07-09
Published 25 November 2024 Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Polk, who has secured a prestigious grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for his project, "Political Party Competition and the Transnational Cleavage in Europe." This groundbreaking work aims to shed light on the evolving political landscape and its implications for Europe’s future. SummaryPolitical Party Competition and the Tra
Published 29 November 2024 Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have edited the book “Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis: A New Subfield” (Bristol University Press). How can feminist scholarship advance the field of foreign policy analysis to better understand contemporary foreign policy actions and challenges? This groundbreaking book provides the state-of-the-art in the study of gender, feminisms and fo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-karin-aggestam-and-jacqui-true-feminist-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-07-09
Published 5 December 2024 Rikard Bengtsson recently published a chapter entitled “Complex Role Enactment Amid Global Value Contestation: The European Union and the Crisis of the European Security Order” in the volume International Organizations Amid Global Crisis. Analysing Role Selection and Impact through Role Theory, edited by Diana Panke and Gordon M. Friedrichs (Bristol University Press). Dep
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-eu-and-european-security-order - 2025-07-09
Published 6 December 2024 Patrick Nitzschner on his dissertation and external reviewer Professor Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin. Patrick Nitzschner has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Defending what is yet to come: Towards a critical theory of democratic defense'. Congratulations! AbstractCertainty about the robustness of democracy has given way to a widely diagnosed crisis of d
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/patrick-nitzschner-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-09
Published 10 December 2024 The world is facing several crises in terms of water quality, quantity, and safety. Policy measures to date focus on a 'business as usual' approach that prioritises economic and/or green growth. But measures that prioritize growth largely fail. A group of some of the world's most prominent water scientists highlights the crucial role that policy capture has played. They
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-et-al-beyond-growth-response-worlds-water-crises - 2025-07-09
By alva [dot] martensson [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Alva Mårtensson) - published 12 December 2024 Alexander Ryan and Jonathan Polk. Hatred towards political opponents can be more polarizing than policy differences – and populism is shaping the erosion of support for Ukraine in the war against Russia. Professor Jonathan Polk and Dr. Alexander Ryan delivered a lecture in December on what divides vo
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/affective-polarization-populism-and-european-party-support-ukraine - 2025-07-09
Published 16 December 2024 In this study we elaborate the trade-off between pre-training models on domain-specific data versus a more general dataset in a political context. We start from motions from parliamentarians in the Swedish Riksdag, and focus on the two competitors for government office parties: Social Democrats and Moderates. Elaborating word embeddings on central keywords related to iss
Published 13 January 2025 Isak Svensson, Uppsala University and Isabel Bramsen, Lund University. ❔ Who is best positioned for mediation and negotiation efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine? ❔ When should such diplomatic efforts be launched? ❔ How should the processes of peace talks be designed? These are some of the questions examined in a new article by Isabel Bramsen from our departme
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peace-talks-russia-ukraine-war-when-who-and-how - 2025-07-09
