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Lund University recently decided to allocate €4 million to promote international impact. The Faculty of Social Sciences receives €590 000, part of which goes to the Sociology of Law Department. The department receives €44 600 (SEK 520,000) for two internationalising initiatives. A grant of €12 000 goes to organising an international workshop at the end of November on de-colonialism. A further €32
NordForsk, an organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers that funds cooperative research between researchers in the Nordics, awarded Ida Nafstad the equivalent of €324,000 as part of a larger research grant. Her research group intends to promote democratic engagement participation among marginalised groups in environmental policy-making. Transitional Environmental Justice (EnJUSTICE) is a
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/research-strives-amplify-marginalized-voices-nordic-baltic-green-transition - 2025-12-17
The Sociology of Law Department received four positive answers for funding requests this month. The Crafoord Foundation funds Anna Lundberg's ”Public employees’ mobilization against the Informers Act” project with 500,000 SEK. Information about the research will be available later this year.They also granted Jannice Käll 200,000 SEK for the organisation of Critical Legal Conference 2024: Speculati
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/several-successful-grant-applications-june - 2025-12-17
On Friday, September 13, Oscar Björkenfeldt successfully defended his thesis, "Online Harassment Against Journalists: A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism". By integrating sociology of law and work-life science, Oscar Björkenfeldt developed insights into how online harassment targeting journalists influences journalistic practices.Björkenfeldt us
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/oscar-bjorkenfeldt-completes-doctoral-student-programme - 2025-12-17
The Sociology of Law Department receives 50,000 SEK (€4,300) in faculty mobility funds to invite Sergio Jarillo de la Torre, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His background is in social anthropology, law, and art history, and he has spent over ten years doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands and Mozambique.During his two-week s
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/department-granted-funds-invite-researcher-university-melbourne - 2025-12-17
Ana Maria Vargas Falla was Lund University's only representative at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. She has researched public resistance and acceptance of climate legislation and contributed to the "10 new insights in climate science" presented during the climate summit. These are her impressions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. I was initially very sceptical about having
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-reflects-cop29 - 2025-12-17
Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady democratic decline. The trend is dis
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2025-12-17
Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnographic study of responses
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2025-12-17
In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Ta
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-12-17
Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition t
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2025-12-17
Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2025-12-17
A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states. Titled "Sociology of A
ArtCollab är en plattform vid Lunds universitet som främjar samarbete mellan konst, vetenskap och samhälle. Syftet är att skapa en miljö där interdisciplinära metoder används för att förstå och hantera komplexa samhällsutmaningar. Plattformen ska fungera som ett gränssnitt mellan konstnärer och forskare som gör det möjligt att utveckla projekt som kombinerar konstnärliga insikter med vetenskaplig
The harp is traditionally seen as a delicate, classical instrument, but Eleonora Pennino – student at Malmö Academy of Music – has managed to transform it into a powerful jazz voice, proving it can swing, groove, and improvise with the best. Eleonora, originally from Italy, has been captivated by music since childhood. Growing up in a household filled with the sounds of her mother playing piano an
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/eleonora-pennino-and-harp-classical-roots-jazz-innovation - 2025-12-17
Projektet IAC Art Files påbörjades i januari 2025 som SND:s flaggskeppsprojekt under LU 2025–26. Syftet med IAC Art Files är att skapa en plattform och en portal som möjliggör hantering och visning av individuell, tematisk och tvärvetenskaplig forskningsoutput, samt delningsfunktioner för konstnärlig forskningsdata – för att stärka kontakten och utbytet både mellan konstnärliga forskare och mellan
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/iac-art-files-projektet-startat - 2025-12-17
Jörgen Dahlqvist är aktuell med avhandlingen In Dialogue with Society: Democratic Engagement through Theatre som undersöker teaterns potential i att skapa demokratiskt engagemang berättar mer om sin forskning. På vilket sätt kan man använda sig av teater för att närma sig frågor om demokrati och socialt engagemang?I min avhandling beskriver jag hur det är möjligt att använda sig av teater för att
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/teater-som-demokratiskt-verktyg - 2025-12-17
24–27 april 2025 Samarbetet mellan INTONAL och IAC förnyas i år igen med Akusmonium-konserter i IAC:s röda rum! Detta unika ljudsystem, som nu består av mer än 40 högtalare, har ständigt utvecklats tack vare de många artister som har experimenterat med det genom åren. Bland dem utmärker sig särskilt Sophie Delafontaine (25/4) som återvänder till vår festival efter fyra år för att presentera nya ve
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/intonal-2025-akusmatiska-konserter-pa-inter-arts-center-iac - 2025-12-17
På Musikhögskolan i Malmö har EDI (Electronic Digital Instrument) sedan flera år varit en valmöjlighet för studenter som vill utforska digital musikproduktion och performance. Nu presenterar en musikpedagogisk forskningsgrupp även handfasta resurser för musiklärare och studenter som vill lära sig mer om EDI:s pedagogiska och konstnärliga potential. Vad är EDI?Electronic Digital Instrument (EDI) är
https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/forskning-kring-edi-och-framtidens-musikundervisning - 2025-12-17
Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catia Gregoratti have recently published the article “Neoliberal turns in global humanitarian governance: corporations, celebrities and the construction of the entrepreneurial refugee woman” in the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (Manchester University Press) 2:3, 2021. This article seeks to extend recent debates on how the promotion of self-reliance through vocational
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-annika-bergman-rosamond-and-catia-gregoratti - 2025-12-17
Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the article “Political leadership and gendered multilevel games in foreign policy” published Open Access in the journal International Affairs. Link to the article on academic.oup.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Jacqui True’s homepage
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-political-leadership-and-gendered-multilevel-games-foreign-policy - 2025-12-17
