NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Niklas Altermark has penned the article "The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability: reconstituting the ‘disordered’ brain", which has recently been published in Disability & Society. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reconstituting-disordered-brain - 2025-09-05

Uppsala university announces 3 PhD student positions in peace and conflict research with focus on international water cooperation. Apply by November 3. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-positions-uppsala - 2025-09-05

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Mi Lennhag lectures on the EU, bureaucracy, transparency and anti-corruption work, as part of the Swedish Institute’s Summer Academy for Young Professionals (aimed at post-Soviet country residents). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lecture-eu-bureaucracy-transparency-and-anti-corruption-work - 2025-09-05

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Jens Bartelson discusses David Armitages’s book "Foundations of Modern International Thought", in a special review article in "Contemporary Political Theory". Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/review-foundations-modern-international-thought - 2025-09-05

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Fariborz Zelli organises a side event at the UN climate change conference in Lima (December 4). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zellis-event-beside-climate-change-conference - 2025-09-05

STUDENT NEWS: EU External Action welcomes application for international internships in 2015. Apply no later than December 5. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/international-internships - 2025-09-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has written the chapter Leader, Bridge-builder or ‘Hobbled Giant’? Perceptions of the EU in Climate-Change Negotiations that is included in the recently published anthology Communicating Europe in Time of Crisis: External Perceptions of the European Union (Palgrave). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/leader-bridge-builder-or-hobbled-giant - 2025-09-05

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen was recently included in an international group of researchers that prepared a report for the Nordic Council of Ministers working group for global climate negotiations ahead of the current COP20 UN negotiations. Tobias Nielsen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/preparing-report-global-climate-negotiations - 2025-09-05

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen talks about Ecuador’s Socio Bosque and Peru’s Programa Bosque as Role Models? at a UN climate conference side-event (Dec. 4).  REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest ProtectionREDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of criticism to it, a number of fu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-talks-about-south-american-role-models - 2025-09-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article Coalitions and Compensation. The Case of Unemployment Benefit Duration which has recently been published in Comparative Political Studies. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-and-lindvall-comparative-political-studies - 2025-09-05

Varieties of Democracy Institute (University of Gothenburg) announces a call for postdocs and research fellows. Apply by January 23. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/announced-position-gothenburg - 2025-09-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: International Politics of Recognition, a book co-edited by Erik Ringmar, is the subject of a book symposium in the latest issue of the Global Discourse journal Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ringmars-book-discussed-global-discourse-journal - 2025-09-05

Dear students and other visitors: be advised that the department building Eden closes at 5 PM on Thursday, 11 December. Learn more about Eden's opening hours over the holiday and New Year.  

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eden-closes-early-11-december - 2025-09-05

On December 18, the department’s new site will launch. The incoming webmaster welcomes you back then! New web – new webmasterOn December 18, the department’s new web site will be launched. On that date, Emma Lord will succeed Mikael Sundström as webmaster (Mikael returns to his full time duties as Senior Lecturer after a stint extending back to the inception of our site), and will be in charge of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-website - 2025-09-05

On December 18, the department’s new site will launch. The outgoing webmaster wishes his successor the best of luck! On December 18, the department’s new web site will be launched. On that date, Emma Lord will succeed Mikael Sundström as webmaster (Mikael returns to his full time duties as Senior Lecturer after a stint extending back to the inception of our site), and will be in charge of our web

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/goodbye-outgoing-webmaster - 2025-09-05

Karin Aggestam has been promoted to full professor at the department! We extend our congratulations to her (and us)! Karin Aggestam.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-new-professor - 2025-09-05

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Magdalena Bexell has edited the recently published book Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation (Routledge), and herself contributes a chapter entitled Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bexell-edits-global-governance-legitimacy-and-legitimation - 2025-09-05

The Department of Political Science (University of Gothenburg) announces the availability of six fully funded doctoral student positions. Apply by March 2. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ph-d-candidate-positions-gothenburg - 2025-09-05

During the following three weeks our department hosts Manisha Anantharaman, PhD, Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California. – I am so happy to have the opportunity to spend some time with you at Lund. I hope to engage with many of you regarding ideas or work-in-progress. The visit began with a guest lecture with the topic of circular economy and

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/visit-and-guest-lecture-department-manisha-anantharaman - 2025-09-05

Kristina Bäckström with the award for Best paper at NRWC 2022. During the past week some of the institutions researches with focus on retail attended the Nordic Retail and Wholesale conference (NRWC) to present their research. Krisitna Bäckström, senior lecturer at our department, won the award for best paper. For the eigth time the NRWC was arranged by the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Association,

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/kristina-backstrom-awarded-research-conference-finland - 2025-09-05