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Published 3 May 2016 Karin Aggestam gives a talk on women’s role in peacemaking at European University Institute, ”The State of the Union: Women in Europe and the World”, on May 5 in Florens. Learn more on The State of Union’s websiteKarin Aggestam's personal page
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-womens-roles-peacemaking-eui - 2025-07-03
Published 4 May 2016 Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Moira Nelson contributed a chapter to a volume entitled “Aiming High: Progressive Politics in a High-Risk, High-Opportunity Era” compiled by Policy Network. Mukhtar-Landgren and Nelson’s chapter outlines ongoing obstacles to women’s economic well-being in Sweden.This volume informs discussions held in Rome in early 2016 hosted by Federica Mogherini,
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mukhtar-landgren-and-nelson-new-chapter-womens-economic-well-being-sweden - 2025-07-03
Published 15 April 2025 Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between government ministers and NGOs. Their findings reveal striking inequalities in who gets access to political decision-makers. Our findings reveal stark inequalities in who gets t
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-gets-hearing-intersectionality-ngos-and-political-access-decision-makers - 2025-07-03
Published 25 April 2025 Esther Calvo and opponent Associate Professor Frederik Hjorth, University of Copenhagen. Esther Calvo has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Old Foe, New Friend? Rhetorical responses of mainstream parties towards a radical right party'. Congratulations Doctor Calvo! AbstractWith their increasing electoral success, radical right (populist) parties (RRPs) are consolid
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/esther-calvo-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-03
Published 28 April 2025 Karin Aggestam has contributed to Riksbankens Jubileumsfond’s Yearbook 2025 on Israel, Palestine and just peace (in Swedish, soon out in English as well). A book launch was held at Kulturhuset in Stockholm 26 April with Stadsteatern Studio Rättvisa - naturen, censuren och straffetRead more here: https://view.publitas.com/riksbankens-jubileumsfond/rj2025_rattvisa_aggestam_97
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-israel-palestine-and-just-peace - 2025-07-03
Published 5 May 2025 Nicolas Rodriguez Hedenbratt and external reviewer Jesper Strömbäck, University of Gothenburg. Photo: Jana Wrange. Nicolas Rodriguez Hedenbratt has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'The Politics of Radio and Television in Western Democracies'. Congratulations to Dr. Rodríguez Hedenbratt! The public defense took take place on Friday, 2 May 2025, at 10:00, in Eden’s aud
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nicolas-rodriguez-hedenbratt-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-03
Published 6 May 2025 Professor Annika Björkdahl, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Photo: Johan Persson. Annika Björkdahl and Sofia Cognini have published the article “Anti-genderism in 280 characters: A study of Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni’s online discourse” in Party Politics. The authors analyze the Italian right-wing party leaders’ online discourse on Twitter/X to spread
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-and-sofia-cognini-italian-right-wing-leaders-anti-gender-messages - 2025-07-03
Published 9 May 2025 Jana Wrange has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Civil Defence (Re)Emerged: A Multi-Level Perspective on Policy Developments in Post-Crimea Europe'. Congratulations to Dr. Wrange! External reviewer: Professor Jan Ångström, the Swedish Defence UniversitySupervisor: Rikard BengtssonAssistant supervisor: Lisa StrömbomMore information about the thesis is available in the
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jana-wrange-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-03
Published 16 May 2025 Karl Holmberg and external reviewer Professor Alice Mah, University of Glasgow. Karl Holmberg has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Embedded disposability: A cultural political economy of plastics'. Congratulations to Dr. Holmberg! External reviewer: Professor Alice Mah, University of Glasgow Supervisors/Advisors:Stripple, Johannes, SupervisorSkovgaard, Jakob, Superv
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karl-holmberg-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-07-03
Published 20 May 2025 On Thursday 15 May, we received the sad news that Jessica Blom-Larsson had passed away after a sudden illness. She leaves a large void at the Department of Political Science with colleagues and students in grief and loss. On Thursday 22 May at 3 pm and onwards, we will hold a memorial service for Jessica. We gather in the lunch room on the fourth floor, where coffee will be s
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/our-friend-and-colleague-jessica-blom-larsson-has-passed-away - 2025-07-03
Published 21 May 2025 Mats Fred and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Department of Political Science, Lund University. This study by Russell Cannon, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Mats Fred examines how the sustainable mobility of the future is emerging. The study is based on what is being done to create sustainable and integrated mobility and what kinds of actor roles and relationships these practical actions
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-we-organize-sustainable-travel-future - 2025-07-03
Published 23 May 2025 Ian Manners gives the European Foreign Affairs Review (EFAR) keynote lecture on 'The European Union's Normative Power in Planetary Politics' to the annual European Union in International Affairs conference in Brussels 23 May 2025. The keynote lecture covers the conference theme of Europe in a Fragmenting World by setting out the EU’s journey from the ‘eye of the storm’ in 202
Published 28 May 2025 The European Union (EU) often presents itself as a champion of LGBTQ rights, promoting equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. However, in a recently published article in a special issue of Journal of Common Market Studies, doctoral student Malte Breiding argues that this work does not always produce the intended outcomes. Breiding explores a surprising
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/can-eus-push-lgbt-rights-backfire-new-article-malte-breiding-says-it-might - 2025-07-03
Published 2 June 2025 Current opinion in environmental sustainability. Halting biodiversity loss requires more than just increased funding – it also demands better governance of how resources are mobilised, allocated, and monitored. A new study in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability reviews recent research on how biodiversity finance actually works. Researchers Jesper Svensson, Julia Q
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-should-own-nature-new-study-examines-governance-biodiversity-finance - 2025-07-03
Published 13 June 2025 Professor Annika Björkdahl welcomes the audience to Anne Lene Stein's defence of her dissertation, here with faculty opponent Professor Michael Schulz, University of Gothenburg. Anne Lene Stein has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel'. Congratulations to Dr. Stein! External R
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anne-lene-stein-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-03
Published 16 June 2025 Stina Melander and Julia Bahner. During the pandemic, many fell through the cracks of the safety net. For people with long Covid, this became painfully clear: they existed – but were not acknowledged. Now, a new study from Lund University shows how ordinary citizens, in the midst of illness, organised digitally and challenged the authorities’ narrative of what Covid really i
Published 19 June 2025 In this article, recently published in Acta Sociologica, Mats Fred draws on more than a decade of fieldwork on social investments in Sweden to explore the rise and fall of reforms: How are reforms kept alive? What happens when key actors leave, networks dissolve, and governance priorities shift? In the 2010s, the idea of social investments gained traction as a key to prevent
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-investments-swedish-municipalities-rise-and-fall-reform - 2025-07-03
Published 25 November 2014 NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2025-07-03
Published 24 November 2014 RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2025-07-03
Published 24 November 2014 Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This is an excellent opportunity for students who are inter
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2025-07-03
