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The Department is hiring a PhD student in economic geography. The position is connected to research projects that focus on innovation and socio-technical transitions in the urban water management sector – globally and in select high- and middle-income cities. The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally ends with the doctoral cand

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-phd-position-economic-geography - 2026-06-07

Paulina has already worked with our team during her master thesis, where she developed a machine learning algorithm for hyperspectral imaging that achieved over 90% accuracy in detecting basal cell carcinoma. Paulina holds double bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Mathematics aswell as dobble master’s degrees in Mathematical Statistics and Computational Science with a specialization in Physics, all

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/paulina-ibek-has-joined-our-research-group-phd-student - 2026-06-07

Today, Lisa Heldt successfully defended her PhD dissertation on "Embracing the Mess? Building Sustainability and Resilience at Supply Chains’ Upstream End. Insights into Digital Technologies, Dynamic Capabilities and Complex Adaptive Systems." Opponent was docent Cristina Sancha Fernandez, Ramon Llull University, Spanien. Members of the committee were Docent Joakim Kembro from LTH at Lund Universi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/successful-phd-defense-lisa-heldt - 2026-06-07

On 14 October, Karolina Södergren will present her mid-term seminar for the ongoing PhD work. Karolina's research focuses on how local governance modes, organization models and values matter for industrial symbiosis development in municipalities. Karolina Södergren’s mid-term seminar will be held at the IIIEE on the 14 October 2022. A mid-term seminar is an internally required milestone at the III

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/upcoming-mid-term-seminar-phd-student-karolina-sodergren - 2026-06-07

“Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulations, Vinzent Ostermeyer! In his doctoral thesis, titled “Why Firms Grow: The Roles of Institut

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/vinzent-ostermeyer-wrote-best-doctoral-thesis-lusem-2023 - 2026-06-07

On 11 April, Réka Tölg defended her doctoral thesis ‘The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings’. The thesis examines how circular consumption actually happens in everyday life, and what obstacles arise in an economy that is fundamentally designed to promote linear consumption. The circular economy is often

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-does-consumption-become-circular-linear-world-new-doctoral-thesis-shows-opportunities-and - 2026-06-07

The 24th of March Rui Liu defended her doctoral dissertation “Tinkered Care: Assembling Medicine Consumption in Grey Zones”. The thesis looks into two related domains: care seekers’ self-care and medicine consumption strategies on the one hand, and the provision of health services on the other. The thesis explores how medical professionals and care seekers negotiate their perceptions of medicine a

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-doctoral-thesis-about-grey-zones-medical-care - 2026-06-07

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/esther-calvo-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-06-05

In 2014, NanoLund was awarded in total 3.2 ME by the European Commission to train as many as twelve PhD students in the area of nanoscale materials for sustainable energy applications. Today, on the occasion of the graduation of Hailiang Xu, we proudly report that all twelve have graduated, and have produced a vast amount of new scientific findings on the way. The PhD4Energy project was funded fro

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/twelve-PhDstudents-graduate-nanomaterials-for-sustainable-energy - 2026-06-07

The program is called "Longer-living older adults: Multidisciplinary approaches to a growing area of research on aging" and is hosted by the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging at Mount Saint Vincent University and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Aging. The SWEAH PhD Aber Sharon Kagwa, a second year PhD. student at the Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Science

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/three-sweah-affiliated-researchers-are-going-canada-summer-program-aging-spa-2023 - 2026-06-07

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/phd-student-design-sciences-wins-3-minutes-competition - 2026-06-07

The University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy announced earlier today that Isabelle Karlsson, Ph.D. student at the Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University, Sweden is the recipient of the 2021 CPD Doctoral Dissertation Grant. CPD Doctoral Dissertation Grants are intended to recognize and support the work of emerging scholars from around the world engaged in c

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/top-phd-student-receives-cpd-doctoral-dissertation-grant - 2026-06-07

On the 19th of November 2025, Marthe Nehl defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Infrastructuring independent cultural production: Empirical and conceptual explorations”. The thesis explores how cultural actors build and maintain infrastructures for independent cultural production today. A new doctoral thesis in Service studies from Lund University sheds light on the processes and practices of

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/independence-or-interdependence-new-doctoral-thesis-explores-infrastructures-independent-cultural - 2026-06-07

The everyday life in two day-care centres of psychiatry in the municipality of Copenhagen is examined in a new sociology thesis from Vibeke Klitgaard. Focus lies on the patients' communication and behavior as well as the stigmatization they experience from the social environment. Vibeke Klitgaard defended her thesis "Social (dis) order in district psychiatry: A systems theory analysis of psychiatr

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vibeke-klitgaard-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-06-07

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/annabell-merkel-nailed-her-thesis - 2026-06-07

Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in sociology, which investigates three cases of spy scandals in Western democracies. Alexandra Franzén's thesis defence took place on Friday 1 October at 13:15 in Eden's Auditorium in Lund

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexandra-franzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-06-07

In his thesis work, Lund University Master's student Daniel Diaz Rivas shows that is possible to reconstruct the time-dependent polarization of a very short pulse using a dispersion scan technique. Rivas recently recieved a price for best Master's thesis by PhotonicsSweden. Hi Daniel, congratulations to the award! Could you tell us a little bit about your thesis. What is it about? - My thesis is d

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/daniel-diaz-rivas-awarded-best-masters-thesis-photonics-2022 - 2026-06-07

Friday 5 May Elton Chan defended his thesis which explores the production and transformation of public spaces in Hong Kong, a city that is steeped in neoliberal ideals and has seen substantial deterioration in terms of democratic rights and freedoms in recent years. Drawing upon recent protest movements in Hong Kong and the ways in which protesters appropriated and transformed different urban spac

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/elton-chan-our-new-doctor-sociology-has-defended-his-thesis-public-space-hong-kong - 2026-06-07

When the American research field "Fear of Crime" was introduced in Sweden in the 1980s, it was translated "otrygghet", a word with a previously established meaning in Swedish. The meaning of the word "otrygghet" has since then changed significantly in Sweden. From being used to signify economic and materialist unpredictability, "otrygghet" has come to be used almost exclusively in a crime context.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hanna-sahlin-lilja-has-defended-her-thesis-fear-crime-research-sweden - 2026-06-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Orpheus is a European network that has committed to developing and disseminating best practice as well as promoting harmonisation within PhD education in biomedicine and health sciences. The network carries out evaluations to ensure quality within PhD programmes. So far, 10 European medical faculties have become accre

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/faculty-phd-programme-gains-accreditation - 2026-06-07