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Dan Metcalfe has been awarded a Formas Urgent grant for a project on the impact El Niño has on tropical forests. Dan Metcalfe, who recently was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, has been awarded 919 000 SEK for a Formas Urgent grant entitled "The impact of the 2015 El-Niño event on tropical forests: immediate effects and long-term recovery". The project will examine the consequences of this years
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-grant-dan-metcalfe - 2025-11-07
On his 50th birthday April 7th, the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet features Torben Christensen and his research. Read the article here (Google translated).
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/he-conducts-research-chilly-areas - 2025-11-07
QS World University Rankings for 2016 places Lund University as the world's 16th by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 16 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is the an improvement from last year's position of 20.Lund University as a whole is ranked #70, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 100 university" motto.The rankin
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ranked-16-among-geography-departments-world-wide - 2025-11-07
... PhD Student at INES, who visited the Forum for Research Communication on Science Festival in Gothenburg some time ago. How was the forum for science communication?It was really inspiring! There were different types of research communication, ranging from discussion groups, quick presentations, tips on different ways to communicate and also fun to meet people from all sorts of institutions and
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/hi-ylva-persson - 2025-11-07
Margareta Johansson, researcher at the department, has been elected as the new Chair of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' National Committee for Global Environmental Change. Here she answers some questions regarding this. What's the purpose of the the Academy's National Committee for Global Environmental Change?– Our mission is to ensure that Swedish scientists find out what is happening on t
Ricardo Guillén, IT technician at the department, has been awarded The Science Student Union honorary prize. The honorary prize is awarded to an employee or a group of employees at the Faculty of Science that has made the studies easier for students or works to strengthen the student voice.The prize is partly motivated by the following: "Ricardo consistently provides IT support to all students and
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ricardo-guillen-awarded-luna-honorary-prize - 2025-11-07
Markku Rummukainen was interviewed in Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet during July and August. In July, Markku was featured in Swedish newspapers Sydsvenskan, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Aftonbladet, discussing climate change, and how global warming can be mitigated.He was also interviewed about the environmental impact of air travel in Svenska Dagbladet the 4th o
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/markku-rummukainen-interviewed-swedish-newspapers - 2025-11-07
Ylva van Meeningen will enter the stage in a tough competition to show her skills. Forskar Grand Prix is a competition in presenting science in the most catching way, in few minutes. The audience in Lund will be hundreds of students at Polhemsskolan in Lund, on October 7th.There will also be an expert jury of three people.Ylva will present her research on BVOC: the communication of plants and its
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2025-11-07
Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at our department, will receive 10 million euros of EU framework program Horisont 2020. The money is for the infrastructure project INTERACT. INTERACT aims to make available data from around 75 research stations in the Arctic.The project will run for four years. It is coordinated by Margareta Johansson and began October 1.For more information about the pro
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-granted-millions-new-project - 2025-11-07
The teeth of herbivorous mammals provide a detailed account of the climate in which the animals live and of local climate change. Professor Janne Rinne at the Faculty of Science at Lund University, together with his colleagues at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki among others, has studied herbivores in 13 different national parks in Kenya. By adding
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2025-11-07
Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide. This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.Read more"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)Ben Smith staff page
https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earths-plants-absorb-more-carbon-dioxide - 2025-11-07
For the third year, SASNET invites researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range to a maximum of SEK 35 000.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-one-month-position-prepare-research-application-lund-university-0 - 2025-11-07
SASNET researcher Admir Skodo published an article in the Conversation on Afghan asylum seekers. When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the West [...]. Read more.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-afghan-asylum-seekers - 2025-11-07
On Thursday 23 February 2017 SASNET met up with this year's participants of the Swedish Institute's Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) Programme at Media Evolution City in Malmö, Sweden. What is the relation between responsible leadership, social change and creativity? How can society tackle the growing trend of populism, polarization and hate speeches while still keeping a pluralistic society b
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-met-ycf-2016-group-malmo - 2025-11-07
On 14 March 2017, 16.15-18.00 The Network for Asian Studies' (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo will hold its Annual Lecture 2017: "Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966-1969". Venue: Morgenstiernes hus, Arne Næss auditorium, Blindern, Oslo. This year, Andrew G. Walder from Stanford University offers new insights into the Cultural Revolution in China. In the first four years after the onset
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-annual-lecture - 2025-11-07
On 23 June 2017 the Conference "Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Subversion, Resilience, and Shifting Responses" will be held at the University of Sheffield, Uk. Abstract deadline is 23 April. This conference aims to look at the material histories and lives of subaltern women. In her 1988 essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Spivak extends the definition of the ‘subaltern’, going beyond “strict
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sheffield-conference-subaltern-womens-narratives - 2025-11-07
The book "Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War" edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass was recently published. The paperback is now available from Hurst in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. Even though Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longe
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-book-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-11-07
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity in
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-11-07
Three conferences will be held in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the United Kingdom supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in 2017 and 2018. The name is "Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia - Liberal and Illiberal Transitions from Ethnic Conflict and Authoritarianism". This series of three conferences seeks to promote research and
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-comparative-peacebuilding-asia - 2025-11-07
On 8 September 2017 The Annual Meeting of the South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) will be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. This year's theme is: Identity, Politics, and Resistance. The issue of identity has been at the heart of several important political developments and social movements over the past few years in South Asia. In India, critics argue that the rise of the BJP,
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-anthropology-group-saag-meeting-edinburgh - 2025-11-07
