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Professor Karin Rengefors sees strong opportunities to further develop the role of Deputy Dean. In the coming years, she would like to deepen efforts to strengthen doctoral education and further develop the faculty’s work on academic recruitment. Why are you standing as a candidate for Deptuty Dean of the Faculty of Science?“I see this type of work as long-term, and quite simply, it is not yet fin

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/current-deputy-dean-would-continue-and-build-ongoing-work - 2026-09-25

Professor Charlotta Turner believes in the power of natural science to shape society. As Dean, she wants to create an environment where people meet across boundaries and where going to work or study feels engaging, inspiring and rewarding. Why are you running for Dean of the Faculty of Science?“I am driven by new challenges, especially when it comes to leadership and development in our academic en

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/dean-candidate-driven-diverse-perspectives-dialogue-and-open-exchange-ideas - 2026-09-25

Bibiana Prinoth has been awarded the Oscar II Scholarship 2026 for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science. The scholarship recognises the most prominent thesis presented during the past two years within each field at Lund University. In her work, Bibiana Prinoth studies distant and extreme planetary atmospheres using advanced spectroscopy, opening up new possibilities for understanding how plan

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/thesis-exploring-extreme-exoplanet-atmospheres-awarded-oscar-ii-scholarship - 2026-09-25

The Faculty Board has adopted principles for the allocation of funding for first- and second-cycle education. The distribution is based on HST (full-time equivalent students), HPR (full-time equivalent performance, calculated as a three-year average), as well as the scope of laboratory and field courses. Proposals from the departments are discussed in the Management Council and the Education Commi

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/summary-faculty-science-board-meeting-15-april-2026 - 2026-09-25

Johan Gustafsson, a researcher in medical radiation physics at the Faculty of Science, delivered his docent lecture last week, attracting around 40 attendees keen to learn more. In this interview, he talks about the theme of the lecture and his research. You have just given your docent lecture, “What a Martian traveler needs to know about radiation” – how did it go, and how does it feel now?It fee

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/docent-lecturer-provided-depth-look-mars-travel-and-radiation-risks - 2026-09-25

Writing a thesis can be both lonely and difficult to get started with. To support students in the writing process, the Faculty of Science Library and the Academic Support Centre at Lund University have launched a joint digital initiative combining focused writing sessions with Q&A drop-ins.“We noticed that students often come to us with questions that fall somewhere between the library and the Aca

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/shut-and-write-focused-online-sessions-help-students-get-started-their-thesis - 2026-09-25

When Tobias Nilsson, a Scientific Officer at the Faculty Office, travelled to South Africa through Lund University’s exchange programme with Stellenbosch University, he did not quite know what to expect. But the weeks filled with job shadowing, workshops and meetings provided both new perspectives and experiences that stayed with him long after returning home.“It was powerful to meet people who ha

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/lund-south-africa-exchange-offered-new-perspectives-both-work-and-society - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Join us for a digital seminar on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 100th anniversary, post-colonial leader and the founder of Bangladesh. Register here to attend the Zoom Webinar.The speakers will also present Anisur Rahman's book Jag är Sheikh Mujib. Bengali-Swedish author Rahman's epic monologue I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/upcoming-seminar-sheikh-mujib-icon-postcolonial-liberation - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Anindita Majumdar from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India. holds a SASNET/Gender studies lecture at Lund University on Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15.00–17.00.The seminar, is entitled ” Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World”. Venue: Room 221, Department of Gender Studies, Al

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetgender-studies-seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Chakra - Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies's Special Issue "Articulations of a Pandemic" is now available on our website. Earlier this year, SASNET had published a call for papers focusing on social-political, cultural, economic, and psychological cost of COVID-19 as well as the question of how to do proper re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-special-issue-published - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Guest lecture to be held by Professor David Ludden on April 27 at University of Copenhagen David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History at New York University, holds an open lecture entitled: History Inside Globalization: Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia at Un

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/david-ludden-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, was awarded a grant by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Dr. Myrvold received funding for her project "Iconic Scriptures in Colonial Punjab: Sikh Religion, Print Culture, and Politics" (project description below).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliate-kristina-myrvold-receives-research-grant - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The year 2020 has not been without challenges, but at SASNET we have succeeded in continuing to build knowledge and research on the South Asian region through a variety of formats and international collaborations. 2020 was a turbulent year, but despite the pandemic-related challenges, we at SASNET can look back on a w

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the third episode of SAI's "Climate Lens" podcast, Julia Wiraeus talks to three experts on South Asia's water crisis and the way forward. South Asia is suffering from drought, floods and polluted water bodies. Rivers have dried out and cyclones are coming more and more often. Thousands, if not millions of people, w

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-climate-lens-podcast-episode - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researcher Orwa Ajjoub explores the historical development of the theological concepts of jihadi Salafism and their implications on the ground. In his newly published report "From Afghanistan to Syria: The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism", funded by SASNET and the Centre for Adv

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-cmes-report-jihadi-salafism - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The report was written by former SASNET intern Maliha Shir Mohammad and is a summary of her MA thesis. In her report "Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan: the insider perspectives of educated Afghan women", Maliha Shir Mohammad explores the understudied topic of the lived experiences of educated

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-education-women-afghanistan - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET and the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF) jointly organized a seminar on “Tibet as an (Inter)National Problem” – focusing on China’s and India’s respective roles in Tibet, on Wednesday 20 April 2016, at 19.00. The speaker was Dr. Dibyesh Anand, Associate Professor in International Relations and the H

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetupf-seminar-indias-and-chinas-roles-tibet - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Amrita Ghosh, currently visiting researcher at SASNET, released her report "Fuzzy Borders and Postcolonial Forgotten Zones: The Case of Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves" as part of a preliminary pilot project focusing on questions of identity and space across the complex Bengal borderlands. The full report is now availab

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-indo-bangladeshi-borderlands - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 10 Feburary 2021, SASNET together with the Lund University Center for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) hosted a virtual workshop on "Nordic Collaboration in Research and Education on Indian Religions". After a welcome by the organisers Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at CTR, and Dr. Andreas Johansson,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-ctr-organised-nordic-workshop-indian-religions - 2026-09-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the second year, SASNET invited 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. SASNET have granted two proposals this year. The two proposals granted was gender studies researcher Maria Tonini’s pro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-grant-applications-one-month-position-prepare-research-application - 2026-09-25