Published 5 December 2022 Whether, to what extent, and how will global goal-setting for sustainable development be effective? A new openaccess study in Sustainable Development draws lessons from the MDGs for SDG implementation. The millennium development goals (MDGs) were an important precursor to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Hence, identifying the conditions that made the MDGs succes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hickmann-et-al-success-factors-global-goal-setting-sustainable-development - 2025-06-03

Published 12 December 2022 Valdemar Holt, Department of Political Science at Lund University, has written the essay "Alienation suspected". The essay examines – based on party leader debates in the Riksdag – the Social Democrats' and Moderaterna's views on the concept of exclusion between 2010 and 2022. From the prize committee's motivation: The essay contains an impressive qualitative analysis of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/valdemar-holt-department-political-science-winner-swedish-parliaments-essay-competition-2022 - 2025-06-03

Published 13 December 2022 Amid growing polarisation in European societies, civil society elites, encompassing resource-rich, influential and often liberal-oriented civil society organisations (CSOs), are under increased attacks by conservative and progressive actors alike. This article aims to understand who challenges civil society elites, on what grounds, and with what means do they do so in th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/milka-ivanovska-hadjievska-civil-society-elites-challengers-uk - 2025-06-03

Published 16 December 2022 Thorsteinn Kristinsson has successfully defended his thesis Webs of World Order - A Relational Theory of Rising Powers and the Evolution of International Order. Congratulations! Abstract This dissertation advances a relational theory of rising powers and their influence on international order. The emergence of new great powers and the relative decline of incumbent ones i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/thorsteinn-kristinsson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-06-03

Published 16 December 2022 Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Pasko Kisić Merino (Karlstad University) published the article ‘Governing Emotions: Hybrid media, Ontological Insecurity and the Normalisation of Far-Right Fantasies’ in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Abstract Focusing on the debates on ‘due impartiality’ provided to far-right leaders in Swedish media, this article u

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-governing-emotions-hybrid-media-ontological-insecurity-and-normalisation-far-right - 2025-06-03

Published 16 December 2022 Catarina Kinnvall has together with co-author Amit Singh (University of Coimbra, Portugal) published the article ‘Enforcing and Resisting Hindutva: Popular Culture, the COVID-19 Crisis and Fantasy Narratives of Motherhood and Pseudoscience in India’ in the Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 12. The article can be accessed at: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/12/550 R

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-enforcing-and-resisting-hindutva-popular-culture-covid-19-crisis-and-fantasy - 2025-06-03

Published 9 January 2023 Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. Astract India and Pakistan are entrenched in an antagonistic relation that is constantly on the verge of, once more, developing into an armed conflict. There are, presently, no signs of conciliatory initiatives

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-06-03

Published 9 January 2023 Ian Manners has published a chapter on “Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century” in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century edited by Laura Horn, Ayşem Mert, and Franziska Müller. Abstract: After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s politica

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-planetary-politics-twenty-second-century - 2025-06-03

Published 17 January 2023 The researchers Karl Holmberg and Sara Persson at the Department of Political Science have recently published an article based on a survey of Swedes' attitudes of regulation on plastics. The survey shows that the Swedish population in general is very positive about regulating plastics in various ways. Some differences are observed, for example, men and people with right-w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedish-population-favor-regulation-plastics - 2025-06-03

Published 31 January 2023 During the last days of January, around 50 PhD students from four countries met to discuss the forest's past, present and future. A key insight was that ongoing research is far broader than how it’s often portrayed in the general forest debate. Participants from 10 universities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland went from large-scale to microscopic in discussions from

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/forest-research-beyond-disciplines-navigating-forest-landscape - 2025-06-03

Published 2 February 2023 Elsa Hedling has authored the article ‘Emotional labour in digital diplomacy: perceptions and challenges for European diplomats’ recently published in Emotions and Society. The article analyses how diplomats perceive the demands of digital diplomacy and how emotions are engaged in their efforts to perform competently both online and offline. The findings suggest that the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-emotional-labour-digital-diplomacy - 2025-06-03

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 9 February 2023 Markus Holdo in front of the town Anghiari in Tuscany during fieldwork. Photo: Markus Holdo. ...Markus Holdo! You just came back from Italy where you've done fieldwork, tell me, what have you done and how did it go? –  Yes, it was very exciting! I'm gathering material for a study on how people in rural areas t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hello-there - 2025-06-03

Published 21 February 2023 Anders Uhlin has authored the chapter “Civil Society Activism beyond the Nation-State: Legitimating ASEAN?” in Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith L. Weiss. The study analyses civil society activism targeting ASEAN within a framework of the politics of legitimation and delegitimation of international organ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-civil-society-activism-and-asean - 2025-06-03

By webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Frostner) - published 22 February 2023 Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska just published a chapter in Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States about the democratic potential of politically and socially oriented civil society organizations in North Macedonia. Let us find out more – here are some questions to Milka: For someone who is

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democratic-potential-civil-society-organizations-north-macedonia - 2025-06-03

By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 25 May 2024 We have been informed that a fire has broken out in a solar cell system on the roof of BMC in Lund. No person has been reported injured. The emergency services are on site and state that the initial fire was extinguished at 13.20 o'clock. We have been informed that a fire has broken out in a solar cel

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/fire-bmc-lund-firefighting-completed - 2025-06-03

By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 26 May 2024 The fire that broke out Saturday 25 May in a solar cell system on the roof of BMC in Lund has now been extinguished and the rescue service has announced that it is possible to use the premises again. It is once again possible to work on the site, with the exception of the rooms on B15 which are closed

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/fire-bmc-lund-fire-extinguished-return-possible - 2025-06-03

By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 27 May 2024 Photo: Mikael Rydahl Are you wondering what will happen after the fire at BMC on May 25th? Here are answers to some questions that have come up. Why didn't the fire alarm go off?Fire protection in our buildings consists of fire cell division, sprinklers, fire alarms and loose fire equipment, such as f

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/fire-bmc-what-happens-now - 2025-06-03

Published 4 June 2024 Webinar: Strategic communication that builds relations and creates trust. What value does communication create for organizations? What role do managers, employees and communication have in creating trust? Join a webinar on 10 June about the latest research. (The webinar is held in Swedish) Information and registration

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/webinar-communication-why - 2025-06-03

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 5 June 2024 There are now good opportunities for funding for those who want to develop international collaborations in research, education or innovation. Apply before 21 August. The so-called stimulus funds are related to the university's global engagement, GDE. Teresa Svarvell, head of the International Office explains:

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/gde-funding-opportunities-available - 2025-06-03

Published 4 June 2024 Deadline: August 11th 2024STINT Teaching Sabbatical is a programme that offers researchers and teachers to spend an autumn term at one of STINT's eleven partner campuses in Botswana, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US.The programme aims to develop both individuals and institutions. By giving researchers and teachers passionate about teaching issues international experiences base

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/nominate-stint-teaching-sabbatical-internal-nomination-process - 2025-06-03