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At the recent Lund University Homecoming Weekend the Centre arranged an event where we invited three alumni to share their experiences. One of the alumni was Sune Petersen who graduated from the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in 2015 and is now a Project Administrator at DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture. Sune was kind enough to also answer a few questions for us.Why did you decide to
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumnus-sune-petersen - 2025-11-11
Do Chinese cities compete for investments with lax environmental law enforcement? This article by Stefan Brehm and Jesper Svensson offers a tentative answer by analysing political and economic factors shaping spatial patterns of compliance with environmental transparency legislation. Do Chinese cities compete for investments with lax environmental law enforcement? The here presented study suggests
Niall Duggan graduated from the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in 2007. He is now the Director of the MSC International Public Policy and Diplomacy at Department of Government, University College Cork, Ireland (UCC). Why did you decide to study the Master’s programme in Asian Studies at Lund University?After finishing my undergraduate programme I had develop a interested in International polit
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumnus-niall-duggan - 2025-11-11
Associate Professor Erik Mobrand from the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, will be a visiting scholar at the Centre from January to mid-February 2018. Trained in political science, Erik has a regional focus on Korea and China. His research and teaching areas cover development studies, democracy in Asia, and alternative approaches to Asian studies. During his sta
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-scholar - 2025-11-11
Grants awarded from the Swedish Research Council. Dr Astrid Norén Nilsson at the Centre has together with Professor Anders Uhlin received a grant from the Swedish Research Council. They will over the coming three years work on a project on civil society in Cambodia and Indonesia.Dr Darcy Pan from the department of anthropology at Stockholm University was also awarded a grant from the same organiza
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/grants-research-cambodia-and-china - 2025-11-11
Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has written a country review on Cambodia in a new book titled "Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia". The chapter examines competing understandings of Cambodian civil society through the prisms of civil society and the state; the role of the international donor community; and the re-emergence of historical civil society. In conclusion, it is argued that shifting atte
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/book-chapter-cambodian-civil-society - 2025-11-11
Stefan Brehm and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored an article on the Chinese social credit system for The Conversation. The Chinese government’s ongoing attempts to create a social credit system aimed at rating the trustworthiness of people and companies is often depicted as something uniquely Chinese. In this article Stefan Brehm and Nicholas Loubere argue that Chinese social credit is a phenomen
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-chinese-social-credit-conversation - 2025-11-11
Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and opening, both for society as a whole and for the Chinese people? Can you give any
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/nicholas-loubere-china-today-40-years-after-reform-and-opening - 2025-11-11
Associate professor Ji Fangfang from the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, is a visiting scholar at the Centre during March. Her research focuses on Internet publicness in China and media globalization. Her stay at the Centre is funded by the Birgit Rausing Language Programme.
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-scholar-0 - 2025-11-11
The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with an interest in East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the fall 2018. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize research seminars.Interested Ph.D. students should submita CV,a short project description (two pages)and a statem
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/calls-visiting-phd-students - 2025-11-11
John Hennessey who graduated from the Centre in 2011 successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Linné University, Växsjö on 9 March . The thesis studies Japanese colonial history and is entitled, Rule by Association: Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868–1912.Professor Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut, was the external reviewer, and members of the examining committee included
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/former-master-student-john-hennessey-defends-phd-thesis-history - 2025-11-11
The two previous versions of the Scandinavian donations and transfusions (SCANDAT) databases, encompassing data on blood donors, blood components, transfusions, and transfused patients linked to national health registers in Sweden and Denmark up until 2012, have been used to study donor health, disease transmission, the role of donor characteristics, and more. Read more at https://onlinelibrary.wi
The Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health is dedicated to publishing high quality peer-reviewed research in the field of occupational and environmental health and safety. High accessibility of all research data is critical for scientific interaction. The more people this research reaches, the better. The journal has been committed to open science for many years. Unlike most OSH journa
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/open-acess - 2025-11-11
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science. This year’s conference (2020) will be the fifteenth Munin Conference and will take place online 18–19 November. Read more at https://site.uit.no/muninconf/
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/welcome-15th-munin-conference-18-19-november-2020 - 2025-11-11
he EOSC Symposium 2020 brings together researchers, data scientists, e-Infrastructures, Research Infrastructures, EOSC projects, EOSC Working Group members, and representatives of the EU27 Member States and associated countries to discuss the final steps towards the establishment of a first version of a fully-fledged European Open Science Cloud. Read more at https://www.eosc-nordic.eu/events/eosc-
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/eosc-symposium-2020 - 2025-11-11
Umeå University is dedicated to providing creative environments for learning and work. We offer a wide variety of courses and programmes, world leading research, and excellent innovation and collaboration opportunities. More than 4 100 employees and 34 000 students have already chosen Umeå University. We welcome your application! The Faculty of Medicine, which consists of 13 departments, is respon
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/postdoc-position - 2025-11-11
The global pandemic of the 2019-nCov requires the evaluation of policy interventions to mitigate future social and economic costs of quarantine measures worldwide. We propose an epidemiological model for forecasting and policy evaluation which incorporates new data in real-time through variational data assimilation. We analyze and discuss infection rates in the UK, US and Italy. Read more at https
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epidemiological-modelling-approach-covid-19-data-assimilation - 2025-11-11
The Poly Implant Prothèse incident and breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma have pointed to the need for uniform registries for breast implants as key features to monitoring the outcomes of breast implant surgeries internationally. The purpose of this study was to identify and harmonize common data elements collected by breast implant registries across the International Collabo
Registries of pancreatic surgery have become increasingly popular as they facilitate both quality improvement and clinical research. We aimed to compare registries for design, variables collected, patient characteristics, treatment strategies, clinical outcomes, and pathology. Read more at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039606020304554?via%3Dihub
Registry-based trials have emerged as a potentially cost-saving study methodology. Early estimates of cost savings, however, conflated the benefits associated with registry utilisation and those associated with other aspects of pragmatic trial designs, which might not all be as broadly applicable. In this study, we sought to build a practical tool that investigators could use across disciplines to
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registry-based-trials-potential-model-cost-savings - 2025-11-11
