Published 27 September 2024 On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalist

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2025-07-05

Published 11 November 2024 The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall  Islands and Mozam

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2025-07-05

Published 6 December 2024 Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially v

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2025-07-05

Published 27 January 2025 Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnog

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2025-07-05

Published 21 January 2025 Patrik Olsson participating in a panel discussion at the conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international c

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-07-05

Published 5 March 2025 Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathie

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2025-07-05

Published 12 March 2025 The researchers Anna Lundberg, Christina Johnsson, Emma Sundqvist and Jacob Lind. Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border polic

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2025-07-05

Published 3 April 2025 A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2025-07-05

By chekhros [dot] kilichova [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Chekhros Kilichova) - published 16 April 2025 The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at Corvinus University of Budapest. The project gathers a multidisciplinary consortium of nine European academic and r

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2025-07-05

Published 4 June 2025 A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2025-07-05

Published 13 June 2025 The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition. As an Assistant Professor, you develop your qualifications over four years. You can then be promoted to permanent employme

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-hiring-assistant-professor-law-rights-and-social-movements - 2025-07-05

Published 28 February 2020 Today Ulf Dahlstrand nailed his doctoral thesis. Ulf will defend his thesis on March 20th. 

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/nailing-doctoral-thesis - 2025-07-05

Published 25 March 2020 On Friday March 20th, Ulf Dahlstrand successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Novel Diagnostic Tools for Skin and Periorbital Cancer: Exploring Photoacoustic Imaging and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy" The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the faculty opponent associate professor Marcelo Ayala, the examination committee members and the super

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/ulf-dahlstrand-have-successfully-defended-his-phd - 2025-07-05

Published 3 June 2020 On Friday May 22nd, Linda Thorisdottir successfully defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Visual Screening of Amblyopia, new Techniques and Surgical Solutions for Strabismus."   The defense was held at the Eye Clinic in Lund with the local examination committee members and the supervisors present. The faculty opponent Professor Olav H Haugen, from Haukeland University

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/linda-thorisdottir-has-successfully-defended-her-phd - 2025-07-05

By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 4 September 2020 On June 11th and 12th medial students Benjamin Sjögren and Yousef Hamid successfully presented their master thesis.Benjamin's thesis investigated non-invasive hyperspectral imaging in skin cancer diagnostics. Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. In order to improve patient s

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/congratulations-benjamin-sjogren-and-yousef-hamid-who-successfully-presented-their-master-thesis - 2025-07-05

By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 4 September 2020 We welcome two new master thesis student this fall! Medical student Douglas Larsson Albèr will investigate spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for boarders demarkation of melanoma. Medical student Ivan Nikolic will investigate Spectral unmixing in photoacoustics for borders demarkation of non-melanoma

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/we-welcome-new-master-students - 2025-07-05

By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 4 September 2020 Giant Cell ArthritisA new study is pblished where we present a detailed evaluation of the safety regarding visual function and patient tolerability in healthy subjects, and define the spectral signature in the healthy temporal artery. Photoacoustic imaging did not affect the best corrected visual acuit

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/new-publications - 2025-07-05

Published 25 September 2020 On September 11th 2020 Professor Malin Malmsjö presented at the 2020 symposium on Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound in Translation Research in Paris, France.The talk Clinical Applicationsof Photoacoustic Imaging Combined with Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound was included in the Future Development Session.This 12 min talk give a general overview and the latest findings in s

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/talk-uhf-symposium - 2025-07-05

By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 25 September 2020 At the Photoacoustic Center we want to inspire the future generation of engineers and researchers! As a part of this, we have invited Mustafa Rajabi to do his High School Thesis within the Photoacoustic Center. Mustafa is studying his final year at the technical program and will work on developing a n

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/inspiring-future-generation-engineers-and-researchers - 2025-07-05

By bodil [dot] gesslein [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Gesslein) - published 29 September 2020

https://www.photoacoustics.lu.se/article/project-update-non-invasive-skin-tumor-diagnosis - 2025-07-05