Published 29 October 2024 Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) is not a new phenomenon. Since the end of the Second World War, when Sweden seriously began to work with psychological defence to respond to various forms of hybrid threats, the issue has been prevalent and developing. The report Psychological Defence: Concepts and Principles for the 2020s not only portrays the evol

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Published 8 November 2024 Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay The Psychological Defence Research Institute has published a new report in the working paper series titled  "Psychological Defence and Strategic Resilience: North Macedonia’s response to hybrid threats and malign foreign influence and interference". It is authored by Professor Zhidas Daskalovski and Sasho Damjanovski of the Faculty

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Published 13 November 2024 During the fall of 2024, Hilkka Grahn is a visiting researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute (PDRI) at Lund University. Hilkka is a postdoctoral researcher (KILPI project) and senior lecturer at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. With an academic background in cognitive science, Hilkka Grahn's doctoral research focused on driver distraction and ina

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Published 19 November 2024 Disinformation takes various forms, posing harmful and far-reaching effects that can erode trust in public institutions, influence elections, and jeopardise public health. The report Eduation as a countermeasure against disinformation, written by Professor Thomas Nygren, Department of Education, Uppsala University, and Professor Ullrich K H Ecker, School of Psychological

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Published 6 December 2024 Phenomena such as disinformation and propaganda have been widely studied across various academic disciplines, each offering unique perspectives on their causes, mechanisms, and effects. These disciplines include, for instance, political science, media & communication studies, philosophy, computer science, and military science. Despite the breadth of research, cognitive sc

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Published 24 January 2025 Elsa Hedling is an affiliated researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University, where she contributes to advance research on disinformation and hybrid threats. Elsa Hedling is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Political Science and an Associate Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature. Her research focuse

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Published 30 January 2025 In today’s complex security environment, the intelligence community must address dynamic hybrid threats through coordinated efforts that span multiple sectors. In a recently published article, Swedish Defence University and PDRI researchers emphasise the critical interaction between intelligence analysis, communication, and societal resilience ("Hybrid Threats and the Int

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Published 7 February 2025 Two new reports have been presented as part of the EU Horizon project ADAC.io, coordinated by the Psychological Defence Research Institute. They aim to support the defender community in strengthening capabilities and methodologies related to the ongoing work of attributing information influence operations.The first report, "A Framework for Attribution of Information Influ

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Published 14 March 2025 Affiliated with the Psychological Defence Research Institute, Rolf Fredheim explores the use of AI to detect harmful and illegal content on social media. Rolf builds systems to detect and measure harmful and illegal content on social media. This work presents distinct challenges: social media data is quickly removed from platforms, presented in visual formats, and often app

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Published 14 March 2025 Hedvig Ördén of PDRI attended the panel 'The Societal Turn in Intelligence Practices: The Case of Scandinavia'. She presented a paper which explores the changing conditions for informal actors in intelligence oversight, focusing on Swedish journalists. The research team from the Psychological Defence Research Institute was well represented at the 66th annual convention of t

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Published 28 April 2025 Elsa Hedling, affiliated with PDRI, recently published a report on social identities and democratic vulnerabilities. The report, Social identities and democratic vulnerabilities: Learning from examples of targeted disinformation, is published by the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE). It discusses the sensitive relationship between soci

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Published 9 May 2025 Hedvig Ördén of PDRI participated in the workshop "Intelligence, insecurity and the international: new encounters between IR and intelligence scholarship" at King's College. The workshop brought together scholars to discuss a wide range of topics at the intersection of intelligence and international relations. Participants discussed how to conceptualise intelligence in IR, tou

https://www.psychologicaldefence.lu.se/article/presentation-recent-research-kings-college-uk - 2025-08-15

Published 15 May 2025 Based on leaked documents, James Pamment and Darejan Tsurtsumia of PDRI have studied Russian malign information influence through the Doppelganger campaign and analysed the capabilities of one of the main actors behind it – the Social Design Agency (SDA). In 2022, a comprehensive and coordinated influence campaign was launched by Russian actors aimed at weakening internationa

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Publicerad 27 november 2024 I slutet av april 2024 beslutade fakultetsstyrelsen att en ny institution, Institutionen för kommunikation, ska inrättas. Bildandet av den nya institutionen är en del i fakultetens utveckling mot färre enheter, men samgåendet har också drivits av ytterligare skäl. Den nya institutionen träder i kraft den 1 januari 2025 och följande verksamheter kommer att ingå: Institut

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Publicerad 9 december 2024 Tobias Linné, prefekt på Institutionen för kommunikation och medier. Ett nytt år närmar sig och när fakulteten går in i 2025 är det med nio institutioner i stället för dagens elva. Enligt ett inriktningsbeslut från 2023 ska Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens organisation successivt utvecklas mot färre enheter under de närmaste sex åren. Efter inledande förberedelsearbete

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Publicerad 9 december 2024 25 oktober 2023HAIDI medverkade under CASE-dagenCASE (Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments) är ett forskningscentrum vid Lunds universitet som utvecklar kunskap om åldrande och hälsa. Helena Sandberg och Fredrika Thelandersson deltog i deras årliga populärvetenskapliga konferens och berättade om den pågående forskningen inom HAIDI-projektet.  Här kan du läsa mer

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Publicerad 10 december 2024 19–20 september 2024 Hanna Varjakoski. HAIDI deltog i nätverksmötet om sociogeronteknik i WienHanna Varjakoski, medlem i det finska teamet, deltog i Socio-gerontechnology Network:s årliga mötet som hölls i Wien, Österrike. Det två dagar långa mötet med titeln ”Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World” samlade forskare från samhällsvetenskap och humaniora som intre

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Publicerad 20 januari 2025 Foto: Gary Walker-Jones/Unsplash Lunds universitet skapar en nationell och internationell plattform för tvärvetenskaplig forskning inom strategisk kommunikation och totalförsvar. Den nya forskningsmiljön leds av tre forskare vid Institutionen för kommunikation. Forskningsmiljön Kommunikation, försvarsvilja och demokratisk resiliens förläggs vid Campus Helsingborg med en

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Publicerad 28 april 2025 This week, the Department of Communication hosted the doctoral course “The Emerging Field of Strategic Communication – in Times of Geopolitical Conflict and Crisis” (5 ECTS). PhD candidates from Lund University, Mid Sweden University, University of Jyväskylä, and Cardiff University came together to explore key geopolitical challenges in strategic communication.The course c

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Publicerad 8 maj 2025 During Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, students from the Strategic Communication and Service Management master programmes organized a panel discussion during Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, exploring the textile industry’s shift towards circular economy practices. Marie Ledendal, Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Communication and Réka Tölg, P

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