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Welcome to the first season of the KEG-podcast. In each episode you will meet researchers from the department and learn more about human geography research. In the first episode that will be released on February 19 we will talk to researcher Stine Madsen about Sustainable transition in Danish waste management. The interview is held in English. You can listen to the KEG Podcast here.The podcast is
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coming-soon-keg-podcast - 2025-10-03
The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study that explores the fashion industry's ethical marketing in its advertising and communication aimed at consumers. Such ethical marketing and communication can involve companies using messages that reinforce the image that th
Congratulations to Master's student Alice Petersson from the Department who won the prize for her thesis "Opportunities for Agency in Offshore Wind Power in Skåne, Sweden?". in KEFU Skåne's essay competition in December 2023. This is the 38th time that KEFU awards a prize of SEK 20,000 for the best thesis in municipal and regional management, organisation and economics.Watch the film where Alice P
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-won-prize-competition - 2025-10-03
Martina Angela Caretta, docent at the department, is a co-writer of a newly published article in Carbon Brief. The researchers, in the article, addresses their recent study, published in One Earth, where they’ve investigated how the effectiveness of well-established adaptation options in relation to water changes as the world warms. Their findings show that the effectiveness of water-related adapt
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/climate-adaptation-becomes-less-effective-world-warms - 2025-10-03
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Gunnar Törnqvist on April 7th, 2024. Born in 1933 Professor Törnqvist had a long career, marked by his significant contributions to the study of industrial location, the diffusion of innovation, creativity in time and space, and the evolving economic geography of Europe. Also of note was his public service on expert groups and c
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/memory-gunnar-tornqvist - 2025-10-03
On Friday 24 May, PhD Student Mathilde Martin defended her thesis “Mattering at the periphery – Geographies of peri-urban life and its discontents.” Curious about Mathilde’s thesis? Here’s what it’s all about: Amid rising social discontent in the peripheries of Western European democracies, this thesis offers an exploration of “places that don't matter” through the lens of the French Yellow Vests.
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mathilde-martin-defended-her-thesis-about-french-yellow-vests - 2025-10-03
Explore this topic in a recently published article (a systematic Scoping Review) by researchers Vasna Ramasar, Martina Angela Caretta and Muriel Côte from the department. This systematic review, which was partially funded by FORMAS grant to Ramasar and Caretta and a internal small grant at the The Department of Human Geography, Lund University, showcases their research interests around extractivis
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/resistance-extractivism-induced-water-insecurity-does-gender-have-role-it - 2025-10-03
Johan Miörner, a researcher at the department, has co-authored a report on behalf of the research institute EAWAG. The report looks at how sustainable cities should develop strategies and practices to reduce water consumption and manage wastewater more sustainably to meet the challenges of climate change. The authors have reviewed six global cities that are already actively developing effective pr
The Storsjöodjuret, a mythical cryptid* with its roots in Jämtland, was mentioned for the first time as early as the year 1643 and is now being brought up to date again in a new doctoral thesis in human ecology. In the thesis, the author Sanna Händén-Svensson examines how perspectives such as social, cultural, historical and the local affect the shaping of the Storsjöodjuret. The aim of the study
Welcome to Lund University. Which university did you recently come from?– I came from Loughborough University in the UK, where I had been since 2010. Prior to that I was based at the University of Copenhagen for 17 years, hence speak fluent Danish. What is (or has been) the main focus of your research? – My research focuses primarily on low-income housing and livelihoods in urban areas of the glob
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/meet-katherine-gough - 2025-10-03
Over Christmas and New Year, we look forward to a much-needed rest, both for students and department staff. From December 21, 2024 - January 6, 2025, our premises are therefore completely closed. Regular opening hours are valid from January 7, 2025. The Student office opens January 7, as well. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/opening-hours-during-holidays - 2025-10-03
Congratulations to Hanna Bach who defended her thesis "Navigating Sustainable Shipping - Multi-scalar Transition Dynamics in the Maritime Shipping Sector." We took the opportunity to ask Hanna some questions about her research. Why did you choose to focus on the maritime shipping sector? What was it about the subject that interested you from the start?- The sea, boats and ships, and especially sai
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/hanna-bach-defended-thesis-sustainable-transition-maritime-shipping-sector - 2025-10-03
Thomas Malm, Professor of Human Ecology, has published the anthology On Interdisciplinary Paths - Thoughts and Memories. This collection of essays focuses mainly on Oceania, the part of the world where Thomas has traveled and researched the most. The book takes readers on a journey through time and space and in a highly interdisciplinary trajectory. This aligns with Thomas' research career, which
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thomas-malm-publishes-anthology-his-life-researcher - 2025-10-03
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 - 2025-10-03
Four researchers from the department participated in the “Feminist Festival” in Malmö this weekend. Martina Angela Caretta held a keynote speech titled What do gender and intersectionality have to do with the environment? A feminist talk on climate justice. In her talk, she provided examples from her own research in East Africa, the USA, and Latin America on how gender and intersectionality are fu
https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/researchers-shed-light-feminist-geography-festival - 2025-10-03
The new HPC resource at LUNARC, COSMOS, will be installed during the fall. Are you curious about what new possibilities this resource offers you as a researcher? Would you like to know how existing users take advantage of LUNARC resources? Do you have questions regarding the use of LUNARC services? Do you need help improving your scientific workflows? If you answer yes to any of these questions, p
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/cosmos-dreams-presentation-cosmos-and-new-possibilities-12th-october-1330-1530 - 2025-10-03
One of the national services offered by NBIS/SciLifeLab is the Bioinformatics Peer review Support track (a.k.a. WABI), providing competences in large-scale data analysis for genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, Cryo-EM/ET and other technologies. This support has been enabled by funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and is a part of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg Natio
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/apply-now-oct-6-bioinformatics-peer-review-support-track-now-including-cryo-emet - 2025-10-03
Introducing LU-Fold workshops! First workshop 28th November 2023: “AlphaFold2 made easy” An introduction to modeling structures of proteins and small complexes, interpreting and visualising the results Location: E12034, Forum Medicum Cost: Free! Registration is required. Strictly limited to 30 places, allocated on a first come, first served basis, with priority for Lund University affiliated par
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/registration-open-first-lu-fold-workshop - 2025-10-03
2024 LU eScience Hub Event on Thursday 14 March: Presenting the InfraVis visualisation infrastructure - visualisation experts at your service Programme:13:15 Alexandros Sopasakis - welcome on behalf of the LU eScience hub 13:20 Emanuel Larsson, Node Coordinator for InfraVisTitle: "Introducing Infravis @LU and application experts" 13:35 Jonas Lindemann, LUNARCTitle: "Visualising dams with Python a
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/presenting-infravis-visualisation-infrastructure-march-142024 - 2025-10-03
The course covers the basics of R with a focus on basic functions, different data structures, import and export of data between R and other programs, data visualization, functions to summarise and manipulate data, Rstudio – an integrated development environment (IDE), as well as basic statistics functions in R. This course is given jointly with the ClimBEco and IBIO research schools. Places on t
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/registration-opened-introduction-r-2-8-may-2024 - 2025-10-03
