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Sweden is lagging behind other European countries and it is necessary to also educate the next generation of China experts in Sweden On October 18th, Marina Svensson, the director of the Centre, presented a background paper entitled Challenges for China Research and State of the Field in Europe: Lessons for Sweden at a seminar in Stockholm. It was written for a study on research, innovation and co

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/need-more-research-about-china - 2025-12-19

Lund University has strengthened its position as a world top 100 university, with a 67th place ranking in the 2013 QS World University Rankings, released today. Lund’s four-notch improvement places it safely in the global top 100 for the 6th year running, retaining the spot as Sweden’s top university.The QS World University Rankings evaluate 800 of the world’s top universities, giving individual r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-improves-top-100-position - 2025-12-19

Lund University has the opportunity to apply for funding from the EU programme Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) to send and receive students and staff from selected partner universities outside of EU/EEA during a three-year project period.The aim of the programme is to improve the quality of education through student and staff exchanges. Through this programme, students can study or do

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/apply-funding-erasmus-international-credit-mobility-icm - 2025-12-19

Fariborz Zelli will chair the Earth System Governance conference in Nairobi on December 7-9. This year’s conference, the seventh in the series, is the first one in Africa. The overarching theme “Confronting Complexity and Inequality” will be discussed in panel and plenary sessions over three days. Environmental governance research in and about Africa will be at the heart of the conference. Apart f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zelli-will-chair-leading-environmental-governance-conference-nairobi - 2025-12-19

Tobias D. Nielsen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg and Johannes Stripple have authored the article ”Politics and the plastic crisis: A review throughout the plastic life cycle”, which has been published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment”. This article surveys the politics of plastics by considering how plastic flows (production, consumption, waste and polluti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/politics-and-plastic-crisis - 2025-12-19

In a new open-access article published in Review of International Studies, Jakob Skovgaard explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has integrated climate risks into its surveillance of countries’ economies and policies. This integration involves reframing climate as an economic issue and assessing countries' actions to address: Physical risks of climate change, Transition risks from pha

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-how-imf-addresses-climate-change - 2025-12-20

How vulnerable is humanity in the face of climate change? And how have people around the world already been impacted? These are some of the questions to be answered on 28 February by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two researchers from Lund University participated in the final report – Martina Angela Caretta and Emily Boyd. For three years, approximately three hundred top resea

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-how-vulnerable-are-we-and-how-can-we-adapt - 2025-12-19

Master´s theses that excel in originality and academic quality, providing new knowledge with strong relevance and practical implications to society related to transformation – those are the qualities that are awarded with the SSCEN Sustainability Prize. The 2024 winners are now selected by the jury, one thesis carried out at the Faculty of Engineering and one thesis from the School of Economics an

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/winners-sscen-sustainability-prize-masters-theses-2024 - 2025-12-20

What do you get when you mix a flutist, non-profit adviser and high competence within brand management? You get the driven Italian Carlotta Zorzi-Chapman. We asked her about her journey from the small city of Lund to the big global brands. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Carlotta, tell us about what you do today!I work for Shopify, within the Partnerships team. Shopify helps entrepreneu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/carlotta-zorzi-chapman-alumna-msc-international-marketing-and-brand-management-2014 - 2025-12-20

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-12-19

PhD candidate Maria Tonini at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Ambiguities of Recognition – Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India” on Friday 13 May 2016. The faculty opponent was Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Venue: Auditoriet/Hörsalen, Kulturen, Tegnérplatsen in Lund. The thesis de

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/doctoral-thesis-homosexuality-contemporary-india - 2025-12-19

The vegetation in Europe has not always looked like it does today. Just as the ice sheet retreated in northern Europe and the population increased, man began to affect the landscape to a greater extent by deforestation. At first on a small scale to facilitate hunting, for example, and then more systematically to make way for agriculture. A new study shows that one of the consequences was changes i

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deforestation-changed-climate-europe-during-bronze-age - 2025-12-19

New study points to that both national carbon pricing and the tightening of nationally determined contributions are viable mechanisms to strengthen the Paris Agreement. It is crucial to consider the fairness and distributional impacts of different policies across all countries in order to achieve broad cooperation on climate change. Concerns about fairness among countries remain significant obstac

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/coordinated-carbon-taxes-or-tightened-ndcs - 2025-12-19

Många av oss har jobbat mer på distans under pandemin än vad vi någonsin drömde om att göra. Informatikforskaren Saonee Sarker har studerat distansarbete och dess påverkan på livspusslet i flera år, men då främst med fokus på IT-världen. I dag ser hon hur den branschens digitala arbete har förflyttats till att omfatta oss alla. Bokhyllorna i Saonee Sarkers arbetsrum på Ekonomicentrum i Lund gapar

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/informatikprofessorn-om-den-hybrida-arbetsplatsen-och-balansen-mellan-jobb-och-fritid - 2025-12-19

A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. However, integrative methods for joint social, ethical, human, and engineering approaches in SDG implementations are to a great extent still lacking. Access to safe water is a key element in many of the SDGs. Hydrosolidarity principles are important on a national and international scale. They seek to apply equita

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-pufendorf-research-theme-hydrosolidarity-20 - 2025-12-20

Patel is currently in Sweden as a Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professor, co-hosted by SASNET. On Wednesday, 7 April 2021, from 10:15 to 12:00, Prof. Sujata Patel will hold a virtual inaugural lecture, marking the start of her 2021 Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship. The inaugural lecture, entitled ’Colonialism and Its Knowledges’, addresses the ways in which the postcolonial, the decolonial

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/inaugural-lecture-sujata-patel-umea-university - 2025-12-19

Dr. Mona Kanwal Sheikh from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) held an Asia Dynamics lecture at University of Copenhagen on Friday 11 November 2016, 10.00-12.00. She spoke about ”Talking with the Pakistani Taliban”. Venue: Faculty of Humanities, Room 10-4-05, Karen Blixens Vej 4, Copenhagen.The question of whether governments should engage with talks with terrorist groups is at

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-seminar-talking-pakistani-taliban - 2025-12-19

Annually, THE World University Rankings produces the 'World University Rankings by subject'. In the most recent release on October 26, Lund University improved its standing in seven subjects, securing a position among the world's top universities in six of them. Notably, within LUSEM, the Business and Economics subjects achieved the top rank in Sweden, ascending from 86th place last year to 82nd t

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/top-ranked-lusem-shines-latest-world-university-rankings - 2025-12-20

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutet, UI) is looking for researchers, preferably at the postdoc level. They will consider applications based on a broad range of topics. Successful applicants will join one of UI’s five programs: Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia and Eurasia, and Global Politics and Security. Deadline is on Monday 1st May 2

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/five-research-positions-swedish-institute-international-affairs - 2025-12-19

During the year 2022, SASNET organizes a digital lecture series on Indian religions in collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) at Lund University and the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) in Delhi. The digital lecture series is one of the projects funded by External Relations at Lund University as a part of the university’s strategic Asia Action Plan which aims to support

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-lectures-indian-religions - 2025-12-19