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Music professor Gary McPherson, appointed honorary doctor at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, will be awarded in a digital ceremony at Lund University on May 28. Link to ceremony May 28
https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/online-doctoral-award-ceremony - 2025-11-03
The Academy of Music has the great pleasure of being able to distribute more than SEK 900,000 at the end of the school year in the form of various scholarships to the school's students. An important and tax-free addition to many students' wallets for the summer, which creates new opportunities, for example for further studies, instrument purchases or recordings.The Academy of Music has met one of
https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/malmo-academy-music-awards-almost-one-million-sek-scholarships - 2025-11-03
Göran Söllscher, professor at Malmö Academy of Music, is the first Swede to be awarded in the Hall of Fame for classical guitarists by the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA). Göran has known about the award for some time but was overwhelmed when he received the news. He thinks it proves that his musical achievements have been appreciated all over the world. Due to the pandemic, the ceremony and a
https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/goran-sollscher-honored-gfa-hall-fame - 2025-11-03
The Student Office at the Department has opened up again, but now virtually. The office is open via zoom in order to help with any study administrative issues or questions you might have. We can for instance help you with Registration and re-registration on courses Reporting of study results Access to course pages on Canvas Issuing of study certificates and official transcripts of records with a
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/virtual-student-office - 2025-11-03
Hereby, the Torsten Hägerstrand Fund announces two scholarships, to an amount of 12000 Swedish crowns each. One scholarship is directed to human geography, and one to physical geography. They are primarily directed at younger doctors or doctoral students in the latter part of their studies. The scholarships are meant to cover costs for fieldwork or travel to conferences. An account of the work is
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/torsten-hagerstrand-scholarship-announcement - 2025-11-03
Johan Pries at the Department talks about the densification of Malmö. We are happy to share this news article with you, in which Associate Senior Lecturer Johan Pries discuss the densification of Malmö. You can find the article at this link: https://www.dn.se/sverige/upprort-nar-politiker-vill-fortata-stadernas-mest-utsatta-delar/.
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/johan-pries-dn - 2025-11-03
Mariko discuss the femwashing of clothing commercials in Dagens Nyheter. We are happy to share yet another news article from DN in which our Department is represented! PhD student Mariko Takedomi Karlsson discussed Femwashing and Greenwashing in the clothing industry, which is related to her research project. You can read the article HERE. To read similar research by Mariko, you can follow this LI
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mariko-takedomi-karlsson-discuss-femwashing-dn - 2025-11-03
How vulnerable is humanity in relation to climate change? And how is it impacting livelihoods today? These are some of the questions answered by the IPCC on February 28th. Martina Angela Caretta, senior lecturer at the department, is authoring one of the chapters in the final report. Here you can read more about the IPCC and the report, and here you can read more about Martina Angela Caretta.
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/martina-angela-caretta-author-un-climate-report - 2025-11-03
The student office at Geocentrum 1 is opening up again. You are welcome to visit us on: Wednesdays 09.00 - 12.00 Thursdays 09.00 - 12.00
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/student-office-opening-hours - 2025-11-03
The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens international peace and security and violates international law and the European security order. Lund University stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian higher education institutions. Please read more about this on the Univerity's central page HERE.
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/regarding-situation-ukraine - 2025-11-03
The 2022 PhD positions in Human Geography have now been advertised! The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally ends with the doctoral candidate publicly defending his/her printed doctoral thesis. The holder of a doctoral position has a primary obligation to successfully fulfil the third cycle of education ending with a PhD degre
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/2022-phd-positions-human-geography - 2025-11-03
Between April 4–19th the University's general study guidance service offers drop-in guidance over phone and zoom. Between April 4–19th the University's general study guidance service offers drop-in guidance over phone and zoom, every work day between 10.00 - 14.00, and between 14.00 - 18.00 on April 7th and 13th. You can find more information about this on Lund University's website: Swedish and
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/drop-study-guidance - 2025-11-03
Here's a note from the Academic Support Center: The writing sessions for the Spring 2022 semester have now started! You can find more information about the writing sessions, current dates and how to register on this link: Writing sessions. Do you have any short, specific questions about academic writing or study strategies? Or do you just want to know what help is available from the Academic Suppo
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/newsletter-academic-support-center - 2025-11-03
Swedish development research network meets senior lecturer at the Department of Human Geography Vasna Ramasar at the Department of Human Geography gets interviewed by the Swedish development research network
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/meet-vasna-ramasar - 2025-11-03
In connection with a new report on measures to mitigate climate change, researchers at Lund University in Sweden see some hopeful signs. Among other things, Lars J Nilsson, Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems at Lund University, thinks there are good prospects for achieving zero emissions by 2050 in industries such as steel, cement, and chemicals, which are currently responsible for majo
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-april-4th-what-matters-now-zero-emissions - 2025-11-03
The Swedish Government has today appointed Henrik Smith, professor in animal ecology at Lund University, as a new member of the Climate Policy Council. Henrik Smith works at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) and the Department of Biology in Lund. He will take up his position at the Climate Policy Council on 1 July. “The Swedish Climate Policy Council has been pivotal in puttin
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-new-member-swedish-climate-policy-council - 2025-11-03
The research programme ”Pathways towards an efficient alignment of the financial system with the needs of biodiversity (BIOPATH)”, with Lund University as host, has been granted funding of SEK 50 million over a period of four years, starting September 2022. The financier is Mistra (Foundation for Environmental Strategic Research) and researchers from CEC will take part in the programme. Susanne Ar
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/50-millions-research-about-finance-and-biodiversity - 2025-11-03
What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on 16-18 May 2022, the Swedish Climate Symposium. The conference means that Sweden's largest players in climate research gather for the first time for a major sympos
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2025-11-03
Is it possible to put a value on nature and the vital ecosystem services it provides for us? What are the pros and cons of different valuation models? These are the key questions addressed in a new report by IPBES, the UN’s biodiversity panel, to be published on 11 July. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) can be described as the equivalent
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-nature-be-valued-new-report-way-ipbes - 2025-11-03
A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on five profile areas for Lund University. One of the areas is ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Thirty researchers from over a dozen departments at Lund University were behind the profile area application for Sustainable solutions in the climate change – biodiversity – social nexus – ClimBioSis. “The application is based on a fantastic
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-says-yes-climbiosis-profile-area - 2025-11-03
