Published 11 December 2014 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Magdalena Bexell has edited the recently published book Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation (Routledge), and herself contributes a chapter entitled Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bexell-edits-global-governance-legitimacy-and-legitimation - 2025-07-07

Published 13 December 2014 The Department of Political Science (University of Gothenburg) announces the availability of six fully funded doctoral student positions. Apply by March 2. Learn more...

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Published 15 December 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: In 2015, Johannes Stripple will head an Advanced Study Group entitled The Decarbonisation Laboratory, that will focus on the development of new methdologies in that field. Learn more...

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Published 16 December 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Johannes Stripple organises Destination Decarbonisation, the closing event for Harriet Bulkeley as she ends her tenure as the King Carl XVI Gustaf professor in Environmental Science at Lund University (December 16). Learn more...

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Published 17 December 2014 PROJECT SUPPORT: Malena Rosén Sundström and Hanna Bäck have been granted 5 mn SEK by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs foundation in support of the project Political Participation among young people - from party democrats to social media activists. The department extends its congratulations!Malena Rosén SundströmHanna Bäck 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/funding-political-participation-among-young-people - 2025-07-07

Published 18 December 2014 Petter Narby defended his dissertation ”Time of Crisis: Order, Politics, Temporality.” yesterday at one o'clock in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Discussant: Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics. AbstractCrises are common and problematic features of contemporary politics. Thought as moments in time when order is undermined by flux and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/petter-narby-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-07

Published 19 December 2014 Lund University's advent calendar Merry Quizmas features Johannes Lindvall's research today. Every day you have a chance to enter the competition by sending a message (comment). Indicate the correct answer to today’s question in the message/comment: 1, X or 2.Today's quiz-question:There are various theories about what parties benefit in an election that takes place short

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Published 6 December 2014 Roger Hildingsson defended his dissertation "Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change" yesterday in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Roger HildingssonDiscussant: Professor James Meadowcroft.AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for prog

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingsson-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-07

Published 20 December 2014 Annika Fredén writes about the government crisis on the international election blog "Making Electoral Democracy Work". The post is authored together with Elina Lindgren and Patrik Öhberg at Gothenburg University. Read post: Sweden: An unprecedented crisis in a (lost?) political stability heavenAnnika Fredén

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/freden-about-government-crisis - 2025-07-07

Published 21 December 2014 Two postdoc positions with STANCE (Lund). Apply by 2015-02-20. The project STANCE (State-Making and the Origins of Global Order in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond) announces a call for two postdocs in Political Science with a Specialization in Comparative Politics and/or International Relations.Read more.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-postdoc-positions-political-science - 2025-07-07

Published 22 December 2014 Eden will be completely closed on the following days: Christmas Eve 24 December - Sunday, 28 December. New Year's Eve 31 December and New Year's Day 1 January 2015. Opening hours over the winter holiday.The main entrance is open:Monday, 29 December between 10 and 12. The main entrance is open to students with a LU-Card:Tuesday, 23 December 7:30 - 18:00Monday, 29 December

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Published 23 January 2015 Jonna Pettersson defended her dissertation "Incalculable Community" today at one o'clock in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. External reviewer: Associate professor Lars Toender, University of Melbourne.Jonna Pettersson  AbstractThis thesis argues that the Western thinking of political community has assumed the community to require a unity or unifyi

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Published 28 December 2014 The Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science is organising its spring conference in Stockholm 19-20 March 2015. This year's theme is: Change and Continuity in Transatlantic Relations.

 SNES Spring Conference 2015

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By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 18 October 2022 The cover to the thesis is AI-generated. The 14th of October Micol Mieli defended her doctorate dissertation, Smartphoned Tourists in the Phygital Tourist Experience. The thesis explores the smartphones role in the tourist experience, how the experience become phygital (both physical and digital) and th

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-thesis-regarding-phygital-tourist-experience - 2025-07-07

By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 19 October 2022 This is the question guiding a new study in the project “Consuming digital data”, with the purpose to see how the consumer experience and feels about the collection of their personal data. The study was conducted by Christian Fuentes, professor at Lund University and Niklas Sörum, Docent at University o

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By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 4 November 2022 During the following three weeks our department hosts Manisha Anantharaman, PhD, Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California. – I am so happy to have the opportunity to spend some time with you at Lund. I hope to engage with many of you regarding ideas

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/visit-and-guest-lecture-department-manisha-anantharaman - 2025-07-07

By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 11 November 2022 Kristina Bäckström with the award for Best paper at NRWC 2022. During the past week some of the institutions researches with focus on retail attended the Nordic Retail and Wholesale conference (NRWC) to present their research. Krisitna Bäckström, senior lecturer at our department, won the award for bes

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/kristina-backstrom-awarded-research-conference-finland - 2025-07-07

By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 17 November 2022 The hoops was designed through the Equalizer project, with hoops on both sides of the pole. Photo: Daniel Zachrisson. Despite an increasing number of informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces in Sweden and our society, not everyone feel that they can use them. Public spaces for physical activity a

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/methods-disturbance-gives-more-people-access-public-places - 2025-07-07

By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 18 November 2022 Today we conducted this falls second nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Anna Spitzkat nailed her doctors thesis. Anna is defending her thesis during a dissertation at the 9th of December here at Campus Helsingborg. The title of the thesis is ”Understanding Social Media Shopping – Inst

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By annika [dot] persson [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 13 December 2022 "Understanding Social Media Shopping – Instagram and the reconfiguration of the practice of shopping" The 9th of December Anna Spitzkat defended her doctorate dissertation “Understanding Social Media Shopping – Instagram and the Reconfiguration of the Practice of Shopping”. The thesis explores how the

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-doctoral-thesis-about-social-media-shopping - 2025-07-07