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Article explores Pokémon GO-imaginary in East Jerusalem

Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration, Niantic’s location-based vi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-12-13

Ivan Gusic's doctoral thesis posted

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15 PM in Edens lobby. The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-12-13

Hanna Bäck on governments' capacity to implement reform

Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European countries. Link to articleHanna

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-12-13

New textbook in social sciences for teachers grade 4-9

Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-12-13

Most Swedish ministers have had a solid political background

Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "technocrats" has not increased s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-12-13

Full Programme of the ESG Conference Announced - Fariborz Zelli reflects on the importance of the conference

The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice in earth system governan

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-12-13

Knotz awarded research prize

Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize winners.The SO research p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-12-13

Kinnvall and Svensson on transnationalism and ontological security

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jama'at stands for and att

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-12-13

New research programme on civil society elites

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Altermark, Sara Kalm and Anders

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-12-13

Sweden's first international critical animal studies conference in Lund

Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute. Critical Animal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-12-13

Jakob Skovgaard on Finance Ministries and Environmental Policy Making

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the reform of the EU’s greenhous

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-12-13

TNU:s research selected for oral presentation at the EHDN meeting

Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz presented her recent project with the title "Striatal Neuropathology induced by Hypothalamic Overexpression of Huntingtin Fragments using Adeno-associated Viral Vectors in Mice” as an oral presentation in the Short Communication session at the EHDN meeting in the Hague, the Netherlands, in September 2016.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-research-selected-oral-presentation-ehdn-meeting - 2025-12-13

A Huntingtoncenter has been formed at Lund University and Region Skåne headed by Professor Åsa Petersén

A new initiative between Lund University and Region Skåne is the formation of an excellence center for Huntington disease. The aim is to bring research closer to the clinic and to provide multidisciplinary care by experts for families with HD at all stages.The center will work in close collaboration with industry and patient organizations. The center is headed by Professor Åsa Petersén. See press

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntingtoncenter-has-been-formed-lund-university-and-region-skane-headed-professor-asa-petersen - 2025-12-13

Dr Soylu-Kucharz receives Best Thesis in 2016 award

Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz has received the Best Neurobiology section thesis 2016 award at EMV, Lund University.Congratulations!!!   Best Neurobiology section PhD thesis 2016 Best Neurobiology section PhD thesis 2016 was awarded Dr. Rana Soylu Kucharz for her thesis Hypothalamic and Metabolic Dysfunction in Genetic Models of Huntington's Disease.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-receives-best-thesis-2016-award - 2025-12-13