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Lina Eklund has been awarded the Alfort prize for her dissertation "No friends but the mountains – Understanding Population Mobility and Land Dynamics in Iraqi Kurdistan” The award is given by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Their motivation (translated):"Lina Eklund uses methods from both cultural and physical geography in order to investigate a wide range of possible drivers

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-receives-award-her-thesis - 2025-11-11

Dan Metcalfe has been awarded a Formas Urgent grant for a project on the impact El Niño has on tropical forests. Dan Metcalfe, who recently was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, has been awarded 919 000 SEK for a Formas Urgent grant entitled "The impact of the 2015 El-Niño event on tropical forests: immediate effects and long-term recovery". The project will examine the consequences of this years

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-grant-dan-metcalfe - 2025-11-11

On his 50th birthday April 7th, the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet features Torben Christensen and his research. Read the article here (Google translated).

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/he-conducts-research-chilly-areas - 2025-11-11

QS World University Rankings for 2016 places Lund University as the world's 16th by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 16 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is the an improvement from last year's position of 20.Lund University as a whole is ranked #70, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 100 university" motto.The rankin

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-16-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2025-11-11

... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different ways to communicate and also fun to meet people from all sorts of institutions and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2025-11-11

Margareta Johansson, researcher at the department, has been elected as the new Chair of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' National Committee for Global Environmental Change. Here she answers some questions regarding this. What's the purpose of the the Academy's National Committee for Global Environmental Change?– Our mission is to ensure that Swedish scientists find out what is happening on t

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-elected-new-chair-royal-swedish-academy-sciences-national-committee-global - 2025-11-11

Ricardo Guillén, IT technician at the department, has been awarded The Science Student Union honorary prize. The honorary prize is awarded to an employee or a group of employees at the Faculty of Science that has made the studies easier for students or works to strengthen the student voice.The prize is partly motivated by the following: "Ricardo consistently provides IT support to all students and

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ricardo-guillen-awarded-luna-honorary-prize - 2025-11-11

Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet during July and August. In July, Markku was featured in Swedish newspapers Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad and  Aftonbladet, discussing climate change, and how global warming can be mitigated.He was also interviewed about the environmental impact of air travel in Svenska Dagbladet the 4th o

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-swedish-newspapers - 2025-11-11

Ylva van Meeningen will enter the stage in a tough competition to show her skills. Forskar Grand Prix is a competition in presenting science in the most catching way, in few minutes. The audience in Lund will be hundreds of students at Polhemsskolan in Lund, on October 7th.There will also be an expert jury of three people.Ylva will present her research on BVOC: the communication of plants and its

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2025-11-11

Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at our department, will receive 10 million euros of EU framework program Horisont 2020. The money is for the infrastructure project INTERACT. INTERACT aims to make available data from around 75 research stations in the Arctic.The project will run for four years. It is coordinated by Margareta Johansson and began October 1.For more information about the pro

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-granted-millions-new-project - 2025-11-11

The teeth of herbivorous mammals provide a detailed account of the climate in which the animals live and of local climate change. Professor Janne Rinne at the Faculty of Science at Lund University, together with his colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki among others, has studied herbivores in 13 different national parks in Kenya. By adding

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2025-11-11

Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide. This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.Read more"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)Ben Smith staff page

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earths-plants-absorb-more-carbon-dioxide - 2025-11-11

In the end of April, SASNET co-organised a symposium addressing the importance of sustainable water management in India, Bangladesh, and Sweden. The symposium was organised in collaboration with the non-governmental organisation Svalorna India/Bangladesh and Peder Hjorth, Associate Professor at the Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University.  The symposium took place at Eden Lecture

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/symposium-sustainable-water-management - 2025-11-11

Last Wednesday, Niladri Chatterjee and Eleonor Marcussen, held a joint lecture in line with the SASNET Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, titled: “Shaken and Stirred: Politics of Disasters and Aid in South Asia”. Ted Svensson, Director of SASNET, opened the seminar and introduced the two researchers: Eleonor Marcussen, a researcher in History in the Department of Cultural Sciences and member of Linnaeus Uni

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-about-politicisation-natural-disasters-south-asia - 2025-11-11

SASNET has been rewarded 100 000 SEK from the Crafoord Foundation with which to expand the Sweden–South Asia Media Project that began in 2015. The grant will be used to arrange conferences and workshops dealing with online harassment in India and Sweden. Threats and harassment over the internet are increasing worldwide. Social media accounts are being hijacked, private pictures distributed without

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-receives-100-000-sek-crafoordska-foundation - 2025-11-11

At the end of May, SASNET organised a two-day workshop at Lund University on Hindu Majoritarianism, Caste Politics, and Minoritisation. The workshop brought together scholars from a range of disciplines, including social anthropology, history, psychology, and political science. The workshop took place at the Old Bishop’s House at Lund University and was divided into four sessions: Majoritarian Nat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-11-11

In May, SASNET organised its first annual lecture. It was given by Professor Christophe Jaffrelot, King’s College London. In case you missed the lecture, the recording is now available on our website.  On 4 May, SASNET arranged its inaugural annual lecture in collaboration with the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF) at Lund University. Professor Jaffrelot – a political scientist who is specialis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/christophe-jaffrelot-hindu-vigilantism-and-making-deeper-state-india - 2025-11-11

During the annual Almedalen Week in Visby, SASNET co-organised a panel debate, together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). The panel debate "What Does India Want in Global Politics and How Does it Affect Sweden?" took place on 28 June at the Almedalen Week in Visby. The event was co-organised with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and was held as part of Lu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-almedalen-week-what-does-india-want-global-politics-and-how-does-it-affect-sweden - 2025-11-11

Linn Jönsson and Maria Lundström are the recipients of this year's SASNET travel grant for journalism students at Lund University. The students plan to travel together to work on their individual projects in Mumbai this September. Linn Jönsson and Maria Lundström are in their final year of journalism studies at Lund University and plan to travel to Mumbai for their final projects. Jönsson aims to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/journalist-students-linn-jonsson-and-maria-lundstrom-receive-sasnet-travel-grant - 2025-11-11

The Institute of Area Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands, organizes an international conference on waste in Asia on 9–11 June 2016. The organizers invite proposals on the broad theme of ‘Waste in Asia’ from the humanities and social sciences regarding both the present days and the past. Possible topics may include, but need not to be limited to, waste collection and recycling, food wast

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/leiden-conference-waste-asia - 2025-11-11