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Recently, a new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile captured its first starlight. This marks the start of a new era in astronomy, where researchers will map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument, called 4MOST (Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, it collects spectra or colour

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-10-27

Two distinguished researchers at the Department of Physics have been promoted to professors at Lund University: David Silvermyr, specialising in high-energy heavy-ion physics, and Rainer Timm, an expert in surface physics. Their research spans from the most extreme states of matter to atomic-level interfaces in next-generation electronics. David Silvermyr – Exploring the most extreme states of mat

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quarks-nanostructures-two-physicists-appointed-professors-lund-university - 2025-10-27

The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the Development Research Day 2016: End hunger and achieve food security by 2030. The Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share and discuss their research with each other, students and the public. Theme: End hunger and achieve food secur

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/development-research-day-2016 - 2025-10-27

On Thursday at 15.15 , Professor Frédéric Landy will be holding a seminar on the topicNational parks within the urban agglomerations of Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town: between urbanization and globalization, which place for ‘eco-ethnicity’?Venue, Rio (430), Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, floor 4 Frédéric Landy is the Director of the French Institute of Pondicherry, India / Directeur d

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/national-parks-within-urban-agglomerations-mumbai-nairobi-rio-de-janeiro-and-cape-town - 2025-10-27

On Thursday 10th of November 2016, we had another inspiring edition of the Development Research Day, a flagship annual event at Lund University bringing together all disciplines working on development issues since 2002. This year the Development Research Day was hosted by the Human Geography department and was dedicated to Sustainable Development Goal no. 2: “End hunger, achieve food security and

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/inspiring-edition-development-research-day-2016-end-hunger-and-achieve-food-security-2030 - 2025-10-27

Richard Shearmur is Professor at the School of Urban planning, McGill university in Montreal, Canada. Richard is an international leading scholar in a broad spectra of areas in economic geography including research on urban, regional and rural development and different dimensions on cities and firm level innovations. His interest also covers critical analysis on how measurement, data and knowledge

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/geographies-innovations-confusions-perplexities-and-ways-forward - 2025-10-27

The latest book by associate professor Anders Burman of the Human Ecology Division has now been published, called "Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual practice and activism". "Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual Practice and Activism explores how Evo Morales’s victory in the 2005 Bolivian presidential elections led to indigeneity as the core of dec

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-book-anders-burman - 2025-10-27

Rikard Warlenius will defend his thesis named "Asymmetries. Conceptualizing Environmental Inequalities as Ecological Debt and Ecologically Unequal Exchange" on the 10th of February at 1 pm in Världen, Geocentrum 1. Opponent will be Joan Martínez Alier of UAB, Barcelona. In this compilation thesis, consisting of six papers and an introductory chapter, the concepts of ecological debt, climate debt,

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thesis-defense-rikard-warlenius-10th-february - 2025-10-27

On Monday June 12, at 14:15-16, Chia-Sui Hsu will have her final seminar. On Wednesday June 28, 13-15, Joakim Wernberg (CIRCLE) will have his final seminar.  Chia-Sui Hsu, Monday June 12, 14:15-16, final seminarFarmland of Dreams: Gentrifying the Countryside with Alternative Food Networks in TaiwanDiscussant: Senior Lecturer Dr Nicholas Loubere, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund U

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/doctoral-seminars-spring-2017 - 2025-10-27

350-ÅRSJUBILEUM. Welcome to this symposium on Wednesday March 8th, where we look at poverty development in Sweden during the last 100 years & trends in men & women's incomes in Africa. Life expectancy in the Western world, like in Sweden, has expanded linearly by about 25 years during the 20th century, a bit more for women than men. At the same time, living standards have improved tremendously. In

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/symposium-rich-man-poor-woman-inequalities-health-and-wellbeing-re-examined - 2025-10-27

Two new books, two grants and a price!  New booksErik Jönsson och Elina Andersson (red): Politisk Ekologi, with contributions from several of the institution's employee (Link to Studentlitteratur) Anders Burman: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes (Link to Bokus)  GrantsAnders Lund Hansen – grant from STINT Seed Funding for Development of the International Collaboration for the Cr

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/monthly-notifications-march - 2025-10-27

If you have not yet applied, you can now submit a late application to the Master’s Programme in Human Geography at the Department of Human Geography, Lund University. The Master’s Programme in Human Geography prepares you for a wide range of professions. Human Geography is about the ways in which spaces, places and environments are both the condition for and the consequence of human activities. Th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/masters-programme-human-geography-open-submitting-late-applications - 2025-10-27

The stipend from Torsten Hägerstrands Stiftelse for 2017 has been awarded to...  For Physical Geography Abdulhakim AbdiPhysical Geography and Ecosystem Science, University of Lund. Abdi is applying for grants to present the results of his PhD-thesis (2017) at The Japan Geoscience Union/American Geophysical Union Joint Meeting on May 20th, 2017 in Chiba, Japan.  The stipend will be given to Abdi at

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/stipend-torsten-hagerstrands-stiftelse-2017 - 2025-10-27

A warm welcome to PhD thesis nailing ceremonies on Monday May 15 (Hayford Ayerakwa) and on Tuesday May 16 (Noura Alkhalili)! You are hereby invited to the PhD thesis nailing ceremony for  Hayford AyerakwaMonday 15th May  at 15:15 (3:15 pm) Venue: the third floor, Geocentrum 1 Noura AlkhaliliTuesday 16th Mayat 15:00 (3 pm)Venue: the third floor, Geocentrum 1   There will be some snacks and drinks,

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/nailing-ceremony-phd-thesis - 2025-10-27

On Wednesday 17 May 2017, Lund University will fly the rainbow-flags again to draw attention to the violence and discrimination that LGBTQI people are exposed to in all countries. The programme for IDAHOT at Lund University is open to anyone who wants to learn more about LGBTIQ. All activities are free of charge.PROGRAM8.00 Flag hoisting ceremonyWe meet in front of the main university building (wh

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/idahot-may-17 - 2025-10-27

On Thursday May 18, Ståle Holgersen will be at Lund University for a panel discussion about his new book "Staden och kapitalet - Malmö i krisernas tid". With Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren (Political Science), Johan Pries (Department of History) and Andreas Malm (Department of Human Geography).Date: Thursday May 18Venue: "Världen", Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan 10.Time: 13:00-15:00 (1pm-3pm) Welcome!

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/stale-holgersen-staden-och-kapitalet-malmo-i-krisernas-tid - 2025-10-27

Three doctor’s theses will be defended during the same week: Hayford Ayerakwa (June 7), Niclas Lavesson (June 8) and Noura Alkhalili (June 9). Wed 7 June 1-3 pm.Hayford AyerakwaPlanting to feed the city? Agricultural production, food security and multi-spatial livelihoods among urban households in GhanaOpponent: Dr Pay Drechsel, International Water Management Institute, Sri LankaVenue: “Världen”,

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/three-phd-defenses-june-2017 - 2025-10-27

Deadline for application is 2017-09-01.  Read more here:https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:145085/type:job/where:4/apply:1  

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/1-3-phd-positions-open-department-human-geography - 2025-10-27

Accepted paper, book chapter, key note address and a scholarship! Accepted paper"Quality of charcoal produced using micro gasification and how the new cook stove works in rural Kenya"by Njenga, Mary; Mahmoud, Yahia; Mendum, Ruth; Iiyama, Miyuki; Jamnadass, Ramni; Roing de Nowina, Kristina; Sundberg, Cecilia.Article, in Environmental Research Letters Book chapterEric Clark, "Making rent gap theory

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/may-highlights - 2025-10-27

Deadline for application is 2017-10-01. Read more here:https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:158428/type:job/where:4/apply:1

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/open-position-senior-lecturer-human-ecology - 2025-10-27