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SASNET has fostered research on South Asia for many years and through various collaborations, projects and funding opportunities. Read about SASNET's former projects, researchers and programmes below.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research - 2026-04-29
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Law from September until October 2016. SASNET asked Jishnu five questions after his leave: Who are you?I am a Research Scholar from the Department of Law in the University of Kerala, India. What did you do at Lund University?At SASNET, Lund University, I was provided with the opportunity to participate and co-chair a panel with Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Linnaeu
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/jishnu-jayasree-raveendranathan - 2026-04-29
Apply for this years travel grants no later than 31 January 2017. SASA, in collaboration with SASNET, announces a maximum of three travel grants for students that are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The grants will cover travel expenses for airline tickets for applicants to do fieldwork in a South Asian country for up to a maximum of 8000,- SEK. Students enrolled at Lund Unive
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant - 2026-04-29
SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India.These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should have CREST as their base and stay there for
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant - 2026-04-29
Dea Busk Larsen, Masters student in Social Anthropology at Lund University; and Nashfa Hawwa, Masters student at the Environmental Management and Policy programme, also Lund University, were selected by SASNET for a scholarship to be carried out in South Asia with the assistance of CREST, Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation, in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. Dea Busk LarsenDea c
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/fall-2016 - 2026-04-29
Michaela Nummenpää from the Welfare Policies and Management program at Lund University completed her two-month long fieldwork at the Kerala-based Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Fall 2013. Michaela NummenpääDuring her stay at CREST from November 2013 to January 2014, Michaela Nummenpää studied marginalised groups and how they have experienced access to higher
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/fall-2013 - 2026-04-29
With active support from SASNET, Emelie Rohne and Lizzie Sagrelius, third year students at the Bachelor of Science Programme in Development Studies (BIDS) at Lund University, were accepted to do field work for their BA thesis at the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kozhikode, Kerala, India during the Spring semester 2012. Lizzie SagreliusLizzie Sagrelius worke
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/spring-2012 - 2026-04-29
In May 2009, Petra Bergquist – a student at the Masters Program in Gender Studies, Lund University – was selected for Internship at the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kozhikode, India. Petra BergquistPetra left Sweden on Friday 29 May 2009 and spend approximately three months at CREST, working with a group of 40 graduates from Dalit/Adivasi and other minorit
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/spring-2009 - 2026-04-29
Erika Bergman and Niklas Lindberg, two Masters students from the Journalism programme at Lund University, were awarded the SASA travel grants for the Fall 2016. Erika and Niklas both went to Sri Lanka for their field work.Erika BergmanErika worked on a project entitled ”The oppressed minds of Sri Lanka", focusing on common people, their everyday life and fears from the effects of the long civil wa
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant/fall-2016 - 2026-04-29
In May 2015, the South Asian Students Association (SASA) at Lund University, in collaboration with SASNET, decided to give the travel grants to Tullia Jack, PhD candidate at the Dept. of Sociology; and Axel Vikström, bachelors student of Journalism at the Dept. of Media and Communication. Tullia Jack Tullia Jack visited Mysore in India, to study Conventions, cleanliness and resource consumption in
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant/fall-2015 - 2026-04-29
For the Spring semester 2016, SASA awarded travel grants to Otso Harju, Masters student in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and Sanchari De, PhD student at the Department of Communication and Media. Otso HarjuOtso Harju from Asian Studies was given a SASNET Travel Grant for the fieldwork for his MSc thesis.The work took place in New Delhi in the spring of 2016. Dur
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant/spring-2016 - 2026-04-29
In 2015-2017, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose was to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University were invited. The salary range to a maximum of SEK 35 000. 2017 2016 2015
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad - 2026-04-29
The Lund University researchers selected for 2016 were Dr. Maria Tonini, Dept. of Gender Studies; and Dr. Ted Svensson, Dept. of Political Science. For the second year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related re
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad/2016 - 2026-04-29
Professor Ebbe Nordlander from the Division of Chemical Physics, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lund University and PhD Candidate Shafqat Ahmad, from the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology (GAME) Unit at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University were granted the one month position in 2015. Ebbe Nordlander plan was to write a research applicati
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad/2015 - 2026-04-29
In 1998, a Swedish government working group was established to "intensify Swedish relations with Asia" and to take stock of existing research and education on Asia in Sweden. Based on its findings, the group recommended that a national academic institute be established. The task of the new institute would be to develop research on South Asia. The Swedish Foreign Affairs Ministry's Asia Strategy ma
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/about-sasnet/brief-history-sasnet - 2026-04-29
Anindita Majumdar did a two months short-term fellowship at the Department of Gender Studies in April till June 2016. SASNET asked Anindita five questions after her leave:Who are you?I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology in School of Liberal Arts at Institute of Technology in Hyderabad, India. My research interests include reproduction, kinship, infertility and sexuality. I have worked on trans
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/anindita-majumdar - 2026-04-29
The Indo-European Erasmus Mundus Action 2 mobility programme EMINTE, was coordinated by Lund University 2013-2015. EMINTE was a consortium consisting of 20 universities – 10 European and 10 Indian and SASNET was an Associate partner in the consortium. The programme was open to Indian nationals who wanted to study or work at one of the ten European partner universities. It involved students on unde
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/exchange-programmes/erasmus-mundus - 2026-04-29
Anju Giri, Professor of English Education Anju Giri, Professor of English Education at the Central Department of Education,Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, visited SASNET’s office in Lund on Friday 20 September 2013. Prof. Giri came to Sweden on a scholarship under the Erasmus Mundus Asia Regional mobility programme EMEA, administered by Lund University, as an academic staff to spend one
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/2013 - 2026-04-29
The first ICCR guest professor was Professor Lipi Ghosh from the Department of South and South-East Asian Studies at Calcutta University, Kolkata. She spent the period November 2010–April 2011 at the Centre for Gender Studies. SASNET asked five questions to Lipi after her leave: Who are you?I am Professor Lipi Ghosh and I have a M.A. and Ph. D in History. I have a fist division marker as well stat
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/lipi-ghosh - 2026-04-29
The second Visiting ICCR Professor at Lund University was Professor Gopal Krishna Karanth from the Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, who arrived at Lund University in September 2011. He stayed for the full academic year 2011-12, and was hosted by the Department of Sociology. SASNET asked Gopal five questions after his leave: Who are you?Gopal Krishna Karanth (also known as
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/gopal-krishna-karanth - 2026-04-29
