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När covid-19-pandemin bröt ut vände sig beslutsfattare världen över till prognosmodeller och scenarier för att hantera det osäkra läget. Men hur påverkade dessa framtidsbilder strategier och offentlig debatt – och hur vilseledde de ibland? I en nyligen publicerad artikel i tidskriften Social Studies of Science undersöker sociologen Tobias Olofsson hur tidiga pandemiprognoser påverkade policybeslut

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/kan-felaktiga-prognoser-anda-hjalpa-oss-att-navigera-i-osakra-tider - 2025-10-01

Hur ser arbetslivet ut för svenska tonåringar? En ny doktorsavhandling i sociologi ger en unik inblick i gymnasieelevers erfarenheter av att arbeta inom lågavlönade serviceyrken och hur dessa jobb formar deras självbild. Idag fredagen 19 september har Anna Kallos framgångsrikt försvarat sin avhandling i sociologi i Gamla kökets lokaler (Socialhögskolan), ett stenkast från Sociologiska institutione

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/tonaringar-i-arbetslivet-anna-kallos-har-disputerat-med-avhandling-om-ungas-villkor - 2025-10-01

Den 4 september samlades representanter från Sveriges Domstolar, Åklagarmyndigheten, Advokatsamfundet, Kriminalvården, Brottsofferjouren och flera andra aktörer för startseminariet för forskningsprojektet VIRTUTRIALS. Seminariet arrangerades av forskargruppen bakom projektet VIRTUTRIALS: The Elusive Role of Physicality – Towards a New Understanding of Legal Participation, som leds av Lisa Flower o

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/projektet-virtutrials-startade-med-mote-mellan-forskning-och-praktik - 2025-10-01

Hur kan en växt forma kunskap, samhälle och aktivism? Lucia Amaranta Thompsons nya avhandling utforskar cannabisaktivism och relationen mellan människa och växt i Buenos Aires, Argentina. Idag, måndagen den 29 september, försvarade Lucia Amaranta Thompson framgångsrikt sin doktorsavhandling i genusvetenskap vid Lunds universitet. Hon presenterar en unik etnografisk inblick i cannabiskulturen i Bue

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/cannabiskultur-i-argentina-ny-doktorsavhandling-belyser-aktivism-i-buenos-aires - 2025-10-01

Fredagen den 26 september försvarade David Bazan Royuela framgångsrikt sin doktorsavhandling i sociologi i Edens hörsal. Avhandlingen ger nya insikter i hur vi samspelar med algoritmer på plattformar som TikTok. Avhandlingen, Algorithmic Interaction Ritual Chains on TikTok: Scrolling through Feedback Loops, undersöker hur varje gilla-markering, överhoppning eller visning på TikTok skickar signaler

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/tiktok-algoritmer-och-feedbackloopar-ny-avhandling-av-david-bazan-royuela-utforskar-digitala - 2025-10-01

Agneta Mallén har skrivit en debattartikel i Skånska dagbladet där hon diskuterar incidenten mellan väktaren och nioåringen på Malmö Central ur ett medborgarjournalistiskt perspektiv. Artikeln kom ut under sportlovsveckan 14/2 och kan läsas här.

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/mallen-diskuterar-uppmarksammad-vaktarincident - 2025-10-01

Staffan Lindberg har tillsammans med Per Olof Olofsson skrivit om Sveriges bostadskris. De föreslår att Sverige lånar 100 miljarder extra för att rusta samhället med de nya bostäder som behövs.Läs mer.

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/staffan-lindberg-i-goteborgs-posten - 2025-10-01

Studien om läkemedelsindustrin självreglering som Shai Mulinari och medförfattare nyligen publicerat i PLOS Medicine har fått stor uppmärksamhet internationellt. Studien har nyligen diskuterats i British Medical Journal (utgiven av British Medical Association), Läkemedels Journal (utgiven av den brittiska kungliga Pharmaceutical Society) och The Wall Street Journal. PLOS MedicineThe British Medica

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/internationell-bevakning-av-mulinaris-studie-om-lakemedelsindustrin - 2025-10-01

Tjänstemännens fackliga organisationsgrad fortsätter att dra ifrån arbetarnas: 74 respektive 64 procent fackligt anslutna, skriver Senior Professor i sociologi Anders Kjellberg. Nya data om facklig organisationsgrad (årsgenomsnitt 2014), kollektivavtalens täckningsgrad och arbetsgivarnas organisering kan du läsa i Anders Kjellbergs uppdaterade rapport Kollektivavtalens täckningsgrad samt organisat

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/nya-data-om-facklig-organisationsgrad - 2025-10-01

Depuis quelques années, les quotas pour femmes ont fait leur apparition dans la vie politique de plusieurs pays arabes. Quel est l’impact ces quotas ont-ils sur les élections législatives dans le monde arabe ?     CMES Rola El-Husseini gave a talk (in French) for a think tank in Paris, Centre Arabe de Recherches et d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. La participation politique des femmes une décennie ap

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/la-participation-politique-des-femmes-une-decennie-apres-les-revoltes-arabes - 2025-10-01

CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab participated in a Women & Children conference and gave a talk discussing the issues of the Arab entrepreneur woman. Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Amr Ezzat Salama, Secretary-General of the Association of Arab Universities, Swedish Iraqi Studies Network, and the Knowledge Enrichment Academy held in February 2021, the first international conference "The challenges

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-framing-arab-entrepreneur-woman - 2025-10-01

Three fully funded PhD positions on demography, comparative politics and water availability in the Middle East. PhD Student in Economic History: Demography in the Middle East The PhD project and the doctoral dissertation must be focused on the demography of the Middle East, and the PhD candidate will will have double institutional affiliations with CMES and the Department of Economic History. Read

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-open-phd-positions-cmes-1 - 2025-10-01

After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punished for their wrongdoings. Rola el-Husseini is a researcher at CMES and Department of Political

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2025-10-01

There is limited understanding of the geopolitics of fire, conflict, and land, for example, how conflict and fire are related and how conflict impacts the biophysical environment. Since 2014, the natural environment in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been negatively affected by recurrent conflict that coincided with a sharp increase in the number of reported fires. Against this background, this s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-geopolitics-fire-conflict-and-land-kurdistan-region-iraq - 2025-10-01

The series of talks is called "AraBooks: Literature, politics, society and the arts from the Arab world, the Middle East and its diasporas." Thursday 13 May: Maria Frederika Malmström – The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019) More info about the series  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-maria-f-malmstrom-gives-talk-university-sydney-may-13 - 2025-10-01

This study, published in Journal of Hydrology, shows substantial spatial variation of the negative impacts of water supply and future water security across the watershed. This is further increasing the pressure on its inhabitants, their economic activities and ecological values. Water security, a key policy objective for sustainable development, is under stress as a result of land use and climate

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-impacts-climate-and-land-use-change-water-security-semi-arid-forested-watershed-using - 2025-10-01

The book "Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change" (open access) provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways people experience socia

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/affects-change-ethnography-affective-experiences-2013-military-intervention-egypt-new-book-chapter - 2025-10-01

The research group behind this article in the journal Earth´s future: Ronny Berndtsson, Hossein Hashemi, Sadegh Jamali, Cintia B. Uvo, George J. Huffman, Majid Kazemzadeh Ordinary linear regression models have been widely used for trend analysis in many related studies. This procedure implicitly assumes that precipitation changes linearly, which may not always be the case. By using a polynomial fi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-open-access-research-cmes-linear-and-nonlinear-trend-analyzes-global-satellite-based - 2025-10-01

Research group: Hossein Hashemi, Majid Kazemzadeh, Ali Salajegheh, Arash Malekian, Abdolmajid Liaghat  Soil moisture, vegetation cover, and land surface temperature are vital variables in water-energy balance, eco-hydrological processes, and water resources management, which can be influenced by watershed management activities. This research focused on the spatial and temporal variability of soil

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-water-research-soil-moisture-change-analysis-under-watershed-management-practice-using-situ - 2025-10-01

Accelerated by changes in the geography and capitalist social relations of production, the influx of labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers has transformed the demography of cities in the global North. In the Swedish context, as the demography of the cities is altering, neoliberal urban planning and regeneration policies have emerged in the wake of socio-spatial polarization and racial capita

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/negotiating-invisibility-street-making-margins-malmo-laleh-foroughanfar - 2025-10-01