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Annika Fredén has together with Ludovic Rheault and Indridi H. Indridason co-authored the article ”Betting on the Underdog – The Influence of Social Networks on Vote Choice”, published in the journal Political Science Research and Methods. In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between local social networks and voting behavior, in the case where the voter chooses between a large

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/freden-influence-social-networks-vote-choice - 2026-04-17

Jana Wrange has published an article on the divergent interpretations of the concept of civil defence in Sweden. The article has been published in the journal European Security and is entitled ”Entangled security logics: from the decision-makers’ discourses to the decision-takers’ interpretations of civil defence”.  Read more on the journal’s website Jana Wrange’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wrange-civil-defence-sweden - 2026-04-17

Maiken Røed has published the article “When do political parties listen to interest groups?” in Party Politics. The article examines 88 Norwegian policy proposals and shows that parties often reuse input from interest groups. Characteristics relating to the proposals, interest groups, and parties affect parties’ propensity to listen. Read more on the journal’s website Maiken Røed’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-parties-propensity-listen-interest-groups - 2026-04-17

Sara Kalm has published the article ”The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance” in the journal Global Society. The article is concerned with the private firms that design and manage programs for selling citizenship for the governments that have chosen this policy path. It examines how these firms exert power, by a focus on their intermediary positions between g

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-firms-sell-citizenship - 2026-04-17

Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Research Council, aims to offer novel, interdisciplinary and high-qua

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2026-04-17

Rikard Bengtsson has together with Douglas Brommesson (Linnaeus University) published an article entitled "Institutional trust and emergency preparedness: Perceptions of Covid 19 crisis management in Sweden" in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. The article analyses the Swedish public's trust in different actors involved in Covid 19 crisis management and how current crisis management

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-trust-and-crisis-management - 2026-04-17

Thomas Hickmann has co-authored a new open access article in the journal Earth System Governance. The article presents the current state of knowledge on the relationship between democratic practices and sustainability transformations. Starting off from long-standing debates about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability, the a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/are-democracies-task-generating-large-scale-sustainability-transformation-and-sustain-liveable - 2026-04-17

Lisa Strömbom has co-authored the article "Tracing Responses to Recognition in the Oslo Peace Process and Its Aftermath - the Interlinkage between Relational and Internal Ontological Security" in the journal Conflict Resolution Quarterly (open access). The article deals with mechanisms for how formal and relatively superficial forms of recognition in peace processes can open up for conflict transf

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-recognition-peace-processes - 2026-04-17

Lisa Strömbom, Isabel Bramsen and Anne Lene Stein have recently published the article "Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas" in Review of International Studies (open access). The study develops a framework for analysis of agonistic principles in peace agreements, based on the three indicators 1) spaces for interaction, 2) forms of inclusion, and 3) the framing of the peace agr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-bramsen-and-stein-how-analyze-and-understand-agonistic-principles-peace-agreements - 2026-04-17

Sara Kalm has written a book chapter on migration and welfare together with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall, both at Gothenburg University. The chapter is called ”Welfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship”, and is part of the newly published Handbook on Migration and Welfare, Edward Elgar Publishing, ed. Markus M.L. Crepaz. Link to the volume on Edward Elgar Publi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-borang-and-lindvall-migration-and-welfare - 2026-04-17

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 Mathiesen's penal abolition t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2026-04-17

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 police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2026-04-17

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. Titled "Sociology of A

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2026-04-17

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 research institutions to examine the evolving role of protest in democratic societies. The April meeting i

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2026-04-17

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". The project starts

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2026-04-17

The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition. As an Assistant Professor, you develop your qualifications over four years. You can then be promoted to permanent employment as a senior lecturer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-hiring-assistant-professor-law-rights-and-social-movements - 2026-04-17

Projektansökningar till Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse ska vara prioriterade och godkända av Lunds universitets rektor. Första deadline är den 19 september 2025 klockan 12, då ett Letter of Intent ska vara inskickat. Stiftelsen stöder projekt av hög vetenskaplig potential. Projekten ska i normalfallet vara av grundvetenskaplig karaktär och fokuserade till en sammanhållen vetenskaplig frågest

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/kaw-projektanslag-2026-lus-interna-hanteringsordning - 2026-04-17

Lucat kommer med start den 6 maj kräva stark autentisering med Freja+ vid inloggning. Stark autentisering innebär att du behöver använda både ditt lösenord och e-tjänstelegitimation med Freja+ när du loggar in. Detta sätt att logga in gör det svårare för någon annan  att låtsas vara du. Alla som loggar in i Lucat berörs. Guider och annat stöd finns på Medarbetarwebben.

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/stark-autentisering-kravs-inloggning-i-lucat-fran-och-med-6-maj - 2026-04-17

Professor Tomas Deierborg klippte bandet. Gymkommittén och andra gymsugna minglade på B15, Lund. OBS! För bättre filmkvalitet, se filmen via Youtube. Gymmet på BMC är renoverat efter branden och öppnar igen. Utrustningen är på plats och det finns nya skåp utanför gymmet och bastun är redo för användning.Gymmet kommer vara öppet 6-22 alla dagar i veckan.Frågor om gymmet kan ställas till Med-service

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/bmc-gym-nyinvigt - 2026-04-17

Workshoppen "Navigating perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and productivity in Academia" (på engelska) är för dig som drar ett tungt lass som forskare. Anmälan senast den 14/5. Workshoppen hålls den 21/5 i Lund.Läs mer och anmäl dig på engelska Intramed. 

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/workshop-forskare-navigera-perfektionism-produktivitet-i-akademin - 2026-04-17