Published 16 November 2016 StartUs, a European Startup & Innovation Network, presents the best student countries in Europe for founding your startup – and Lund University and VentureLab are on the list.  Read the article at StartUs Magazine websiteLearn more about VentureLab 

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/venturelab-among-best-europe-student-startups - 2025-05-03

Published 10 April 2017 Help us find the right person! LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. We work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society. Want to join us?We are now hiring:Business Developer - Software and New Media​Apply before April 30. Best of luck!

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/we-are-hiring-business-developer - 2025-05-03

Published 16 January 2017 New horizons need new solutions. The Sten K Johnson Foundation provides financial assistance to those who choose a different path. Sten K Johnson Foundation wants to reach out to individuals, organizations and companies (with a link to Skåne) who have vision and drive to develop projects in education, culture, technology, medicine, entrepreneurship, literature and music.W

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/dare-think-differently - 2025-05-03

Published 24 April 2017 Help us find the right person! LU Innovation is the hub for innovation and commercialisation at Lund University. We work with the University's researchers and students to bring benefit and growth to society. Want to join us?We are now hiring:Trainee/Junior Business Developer (in Swedish)Apply before May 10. Best of luck!  

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/we-are-hiring-trainee - 2025-05-03

Published 9 February 2017 Leapfrogs gives financial support to students in order to give them the opportunity to test and develop their business ideas.  Do you have an idea which you've thought of for some time? Do you wish you could work full time on it to see if it could become something good? Or have you perhaps already worked on an idea but need more time and money to take it to the next level

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/application-leapfogs-open - 2025-05-03

Published 26 April 2019 Mona Hemmaty at the Department of Sociology has defended her doctoral thesis in sociology ”On the Margins. Migrants, Status Mobility and Recent Turns in Swedish Migration Politics” today, 26 April at 10:15 in the Kulturen Auditorium in Lund. Discussant: Associate Professor Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, Barcelona Centre for International AffairsAbstractMany people believe that c

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/mona-hemmaty-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-05-03

Published 29 April 2019 Henriette Frees Esholdt has written the article "Virgins, Terrorists, and Ten Children: Immigrants' Humorous Play with Ethnic Stereotypes in Bonding with Danes in the Workplace" published in the journal Symbolic Interaction. The article explores immigrants' self‐directed ethnic humor in collegial relationships drawing on fieldwork in a multi‐ethnic workplace, an industrial

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/immigrants-humorous-play-ethnic-stereotypes-can-have-bonding-effect - 2025-05-03

Published 10 May 2019 Matthias Abelin at the Department of Sociology has defended his doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”A Swedish Dilemma: Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance” today, Friday 10th May at 10:00 in the Eden Auditorium in Lund. Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and deeply humanitarian; and as more or less premodern, semi-autho

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/matthias-abelin-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-05-03

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman Rogowski) - published 16 May 2019 Doxa, a new student association at the Department of Sociology, hosted their first public event on 14th May. A panel discussion featuring researchers from Lund University and Denmark covered the implications of surveillance capitalism, a phenomenon expected to grow extensively in just a few y

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-student-association-starts-out-addressing-surveillance-capitalism - 2025-05-03

Published 2 July 2019 The building is the same, but the address has changed. From 1 July the Department of Sociology's address is Sandgatan 11. To make it easier for emergency services to find the right building in the Paradis area in Lund, several university buildings are changing addresses. On 1 July, the Department of Sociology's address was changed from Paradisgatan 5 to Sandgatan 11, with ent

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/department-sociology-gets-new-address - 2025-05-03

Published 16 August 2019 Sébastien Tutenges has studied overt and covert techniques used in bars and nightclubs to sell more alcohol, and noticed that they are most prevalent in low-priced venues with young patrons. Other than obvious methods to increase drinking – alcohol advertisements, special offers like Happy Hour, and large pitchers or shot glasses which speeds up consumption – bartenders ca

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-bars-and-nightclubs-make-you-drink-more - 2025-05-03

Published 19 August 2019 Professor Anders Kjellberg has contributed to “Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame”, a four-volume collection covering collective bargaining in EU member states since the year 2000. The literature explores how collective bargaining has been weakend or significantly changed in all 28 EU states. The main policy issue addressed by the authors is how the trend

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comprehensive-work-collective-bargaining-eu - 2025-05-03

Published 10 September 2019 The events leading up to Cyprus gaining independence from Great Britain in 1960 were not the result of instrumental rational calculations, argues sociologist Chares Demetriou in a recently published paper. Instead, a complicated series of interactions between several actors clouded the colonizer's judgement, ultimately leading to the inadvertent independence of Cyprus.

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/british-strategy-dividing-cyprus-ultimately-enabled-its-independence - 2025-05-03

Published 4 October 2019 Anna Berglund at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in social anthropology ”Ambiguous hopes: an ethnographic study of agricultural modernisation in a Rwandan village” on Friday 4th October. For her PhD project, Anna Berglund spent 13 months in a Rwandan village studying the consequences of agricultural modernization policies. The Rwandan government ha

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/anna-berglund-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-05-03

Published 16 December 2019 It could have been a Friday the 13th disaster, but Henrik Möller managed to dodge all bad luck and successfully defended his doctoral thesis ”SPECTRAL MATTER: Materiality, Economy, and Culture of Burmese Jade in Contemporary China” on December 13. Henrik Möller states that his research project “examines intersections of material, economic and cultural aspects of carving,

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/henrik-moller-defends-his-doctoral-thesis - 2025-05-03

By theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Theo Hagman Rogowski) - published 20 December 2019 With only a few weeks remaining of its first semester, the maiden voyage of the Master’s program in Cultural Criminology at Lund University is ending. How does this unique criminology master’s program provides nuance to deviance? “I have found the course to be fantastic so far,” says Jac

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/focusing-seduction-crime-deviance-and-control - 2025-05-03

Published 14 January 2020 Lisa Eklund has co-authored the article ”Reacting to social discrimination? Men's individual and social risk behaviors in the context of a male marriage squeeze in rural China”, published in Social Science & Medicine. In China, a shortage of marriageable women is resulting in many single men, some of which engage in risky and potentially hazardous activities. The study by

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/marriage-squeezed-men-china-suffer-social-discrimination - 2025-05-03

Published 19 February 2020 Declarations and policies drafted by the UN, EU and individual nations basically promise accessibility for people with disabilities. But rhetoric is one thing, practice another. Disabled people have to use creative ways to access many places or resources in their everyday life. The sociologist David Wästerfors has studied what people with various disabilities do to manag

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/folk-methods-deal-inaccessibility - 2025-05-03

Published 17 March 2020 In a new book, sociologist Lisa Flower shows how lawyers manage their emotions in the courtroom, where emotional displays traditionally are unwelcomed. People practicing and studying law often ignore the role emotions play in court. The idea is that feelings disturb the rationality that is the judicial discipline’s foundation. Neglecting emotions will, if nothing else, make

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/uncovering-obscure-emotional-labour-law-practitioners - 2025-05-03

Published 24 March 2020 Professor Antoinette Hetzler has contributed to the anthology Feeling Safe in School: Bullying and Violence Prevention Around the World, published by Harvard Education Press. Professor Hetzler’s expertise concerns conflicts in Swedish schools. In her chapter “Abusive Behaviour in Swedish Schools: Setting Limits and Building Citizenship” she writes:“Sweden has gone further t

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/antoinette-hetzler-featured-international-anthology-violence-prevention-school - 2025-05-03