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Marketed as the early bird among the new leadership of the faculty, Andreas Inghammar tends to be at the office from eight o’clock whereas Joakim Gullstrand would be the sleepy head showing up at 8.05. We got a chance to meet our new Deputy Dean and find out more about him. “I’m one of those people who hated, really hated the pandemic. It’s because I love being here, being available, meeting peopl

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/andreas-inghammar-singing-sailor-and-new-deputy-dean - 2025-11-05

From January 2024 LUSEM will have a new Dean, Joakim Gullstrand. How does he feel about his new role? And why does he want to become the Dean of LUSEM? Keep reading! In Joakim's office, in the Alfa 1 building, there is an abundance of books (with titles such as International Trade, Regional Integration and The Global Food Chain) and papers, yet the office looks organised and is pleasant to enter.

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/meet-our-future-dean-joakim-gullstrand - 2025-11-05

Dr. Phil Flores completed his doctoral studies at LUSEM in the autumn of 2023. Now, the Lund University Agenda 2030 Award extends an honorary mention to Flores for his research on micromobility and green innovations. An award ceremony will be held on 10 April at the Sustainability Week in Lund, where Phil will give a brief digital presentation of his research on micromobility and green innovations

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/honorary-mention-phil-flores-research-micromobility-and-green-innovations - 2025-11-05

Professor Martin Dribe is one of twelve researchers at Lund University who have been appointed Wallenberg Scholars. Martin Dribe is Professor of Economic History at LUSEM and Director of the Centre for Economic Demography. As a Wallenberg Scholar, he will focus on the long-term development of demographic disparities and the factors that contribute to inequality in people’s lives – from finances to

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/martin-dribe-new-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-11-05

During spring – April and May – a lot of exciting things happen in the field of research communication for researchers! Keep reading! Pitch your idea to the Conversation – April session Researchers get exclusive time with an editor to discuss their article proposal. Each meeting is 20 minutes long. When: 8 April, available times are 12:10-12:30, 12:30-12:50, 12:50-13:10 Where: DigitalPitch your id

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/researcher-and-want-write-and-communicate-more-enhance-your-skills-now - 2025-11-05

“English is like a membrane between us and reality”. The quote comes from a teacher at a Swedish higher education institution and describes their experience of teaching Swedish students in English. “Today, there are often no educational reasons why a particular course in the first-cycle is taught in English,” argues Peter Svensson, senior lecturer in Business Administration at Lund University Scho

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/poorer-learning-if-teaching-anglicised - 2025-11-05

Remember the ”beauty study”? It received a lot of attention in the autumn of 2022; was reported for flaws in the research method, but was later found not to have deviated from good research practice. Economist Adrian Mehic had not even defended his doctoral thesis yet, but had an article from his forthcoming thesis published in a scientific journal.”I could imagine that it would create a lot of bu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/beauty-study-perfect-storm - 2025-11-05

Hedda research funds. At Eden, Department of Political Science As the locus of interdisciplinary gender scholarship, the Department attracts scholars with a wide range of backgrounds including anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, family and child studies, education, history, medicine, political science, science and technology studies, sociology as well as area studies. By embracing

https://www.gender.lu.se/article/research-seminar-september-10th - 2025-11-05

Editors: Ov Cristian Norocel; Anders Hellström; Martin Bak JørgensenThis open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are used in local, national and transnational settings, in a

https://www.gender.lu.se/article/book-nostalgia-and-hope-intersections-between-politics-culture-welfare-and-migration-europe - 2025-11-05

SASNET affiliated researcher Therese Boje Mortensen recently published two articles in Sydasien magazine on the outsourcing of Indian government schemes to local NGOs and PM Modi's supporters in the ongoing elections. Government schemes in India reach far – but government jobs do notThe Indian state outsources a range of permanent social programmes to local NGOs. The argument is that NGOs reach ‘t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/therese-boje-mortensen-published-two-articles-indian-politics - 2025-11-05

Oxford graduate Thakkar arrived in Lund for a month-long fellowship with SASNET. Chirayu Thakkar graduated recently from the Modern South Asian Studies program from the University of Oxford. He is currently a graduate student in political science at the Central European University, Hungary. His primary interests are India’s domestic politics and its interaction with the foreign policy. He is curre

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-research-fellow-chirayu-thakkar - 2025-11-05

SASNET affiliated researchers Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson recently participated in two seminars in Belgium on media challenges in the Indian and European elections. Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson, program director at LU School of Journalism, participated in a panel talk at the Press Club in central Brussels on May 13. The discussion was led by Jean-Luc Racine, Emeritus CNR

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researchers-presented-collaborative-project-belgium - 2025-11-05

Rishi Jha recently presented his paper on narratives of displacement and evictions of the urban poor in Mumbai at the Frontiers of Accumulation at the University of Copenhagen. On May 13, 2019, Rishi Jha, doctoral student and Lund University's School of Social Work and SASNET affiliated researcher, presented his latest paper that explores trends of evictions, displacement and redevelopment in urba

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-presented-conference-university-copenhagen - 2025-11-05

Chirayu Thakkar, currently visiting SASNET as a research fellow, published an on Modi's foreign policy in The Diplomat. In his article, that was published in The Diplomat's online format on 22 May 2019, Thakkar discusses the international but also the domestic rationale of PM Narendra Modi's "Look West" policy, aiming at strengthening ties with the Middle East.Click here to read the full article.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-sasnet-research-fellow-published-diplomat - 2025-11-05

Admir Skodo has recently published a report on Afghanistan and the ongoing peace talks between the Talibans and USA in Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor. Afghanistan and the Taliban: Peace at what price?Peace talks have been going on last year between the United States and the Taliban for a solution to the long, bloody conflict in Afghanistan. If the parties succeed in reaching agreement, this may mean

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-has-published-report-afghanistan - 2025-11-05

SASNET director Andreas Johansson moderated a session on European Perspectives on the Indo-Pacific. On Monday 3 June SASNET co-hosted the joint symposium Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center? in Singapore. The symposium was an collaboration between, National University of Singapore – Institute of South Asian Studies, EU Centre in Singapore, Embassy of Sweden Singapore, S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-symposium-indo-pacific-singapore - 2025-11-05

The South Asia across the Nordic Region Conference (SANR) 2019 took place on June 11 and 12 in Uppsala and had participants from various Swedish and foreign academic institutions. The 2019 SANR conference was hosted by Sasnet/Lund University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). SANR is an annual networking conferenc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-successful-nordic-south-asian-conference - 2025-11-05

Isha arrived in early June and will work for SASNET as a post-doctoral researcher for the next two years. Isha Dubey graduated with a PhD in History from the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in October 2017 for her doctoral dissertation, The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh and the Idea of ‘Home’: Migration, Displacement and Shifting Narratives of Belonging Since the 1940s.  Post her

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-post-doc-isha-dubey - 2025-11-05

SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organised a panel on current Indian domestic and foreign policy at this year's Almedalen. The talk is now availabke as a podcast. At the recent Almedalen week, SASNET and UI hosted a seminar on current Indian policies and their relevance for Sweden and Europe as part of the institutes' joint South Asia Initiative.On July 4, 201

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/podcast-seminar-almedalen-2019 - 2025-11-05

Anni-Elina Vänskä will do an internship at SASNET during the autumn semester of 2019. Anni's work tasks will include event management, web and social media content management, photography, illustration, writing reports and articles as well as conducting research. Anni-Elina began specialising in South Asia during her bachelor’s in International Studies at Leiden University in The Netherlands and c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/anni-elina-vanska-joins-sasnet - 2025-11-05