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In May 2009, Petra Bergquist – a student at the Masters Program in Gender Studies, Lund University – was selected for Internship at the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kozhikode, India. Petra BergquistPetra left Sweden on Friday 29 May 2009 and spend approximately three months at CREST, working with a group of 40 graduates from Dalit/Adivasi and other minorit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/spring-2009 - 2026-10-03

Erika Bergman and Niklas Lindberg, two Masters students from the Journalism programme at Lund University, were awarded the SASA travel grants for the Fall 2016. Erika and Niklas both went to Sri Lanka for their field work.Erika BergmanErika worked on a project entitled ”The oppressed minds of Sri Lanka", focusing on common people, their everyday life and fears from the effects of the long civil wa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant/fall-2016 - 2026-10-03

In May 2015, the South Asian Students Association (SASA) at Lund University, in collaboration with SASNET, decided to give the travel grants to Tullia Jack, PhD candidate at the Dept. of Sociology; and Axel Vikström, bachelors student of Journalism at the Dept. of Media and Communication. Tullia Jack Tullia Jack visited Mysore in India, to study Conventions, cleanliness and resource consumption in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant/fall-2015 - 2026-10-03

For the Spring semester 2016, SASA awarded travel grants to Otso Harju, Masters student in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and Sanchari De, PhD student at the Department of Communication and Media. Otso HarjuOtso Harju from Asian Studies was given a SASNET Travel Grant for the fieldwork for his MSc thesis.The work took place in New Delhi in the spring of 2016. Dur

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant/spring-2016 - 2026-10-03

In 2015-2017, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”)  to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose was to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University were invited. The salary range to a maximum of SEK 35 000.   2017 2016 2015

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad - 2026-10-03

The Lund University researchers selected for 2016 were Dr. Maria Tonini, Dept. of Gender Studies; and Dr. Ted Svensson, Dept. of Political Science. For the second year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad/2016 - 2026-10-03

Professor Ebbe Nordlander from the Division of Chemical Physics, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lund University and PhD Candidate Shafqat Ahmad, from the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology (GAME) Unit at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University were granted the one month position in 2015. Ebbe Nordlander plan was to write a research applicati

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad/2015 - 2026-10-03

In 1998, a Swedish government working group was established to "intensify Swedish relations with Asia" and to take stock of existing research and education on Asia in Sweden. Based on its findings, the group recommended that a national academic institute be established. The task of the new institute would be to develop research on South Asia. The Swedish Foreign Affairs Ministry's Asia Strategy ma

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/about-sasnet/brief-history-sasnet - 2026-10-03

Anindita Majumdar did a two months short-term fellowship at the Department of Gender Studies in April till June 2016. SASNET asked Anindita five questions after her leave:Who are you?I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology in School of Liberal Arts at Institute of Technology in Hyderabad, India. My research interests include reproduction, kinship, infertility and sexuality. I have worked on trans

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/anindita-majumdar - 2026-10-03

The Indo-European Erasmus Mundus Action 2 mobility programme EMINTE, was coordinated by Lund University 2013-2015. EMINTE was a consortium consisting of 20 universities – 10 European and 10 Indian and SASNET was an Associate partner in the consortium. The programme was open to Indian nationals who wanted to study or work at one of the ten European partner universities. It involved students on unde

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/exchange-programmes/erasmus-mundus - 2026-10-03

Anju Giri, Professor of English Education Anju Giri, Professor of English Education at the Central Department of Education,Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, visited SASNET’s office in Lund on Friday 20 September 2013. Prof. Giri came to Sweden on a scholarship under the Erasmus Mundus Asia Regional mobility programme EMEA, administered by Lund University, as an academic staff to spend one

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/2013 - 2026-10-03

The first ICCR guest professor was Professor Lipi Ghosh from the Department of South and South-East Asian Studies at Calcutta University, Kolkata. She spent the period November 2010–April 2011 at the Centre for Gender Studies. SASNET asked five questions to Lipi after her leave: Who are you?I am Professor Lipi Ghosh and I have a M.A. and Ph. D in History. I have a fist division marker as well stat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/lipi-ghosh - 2026-10-03

The second Visiting ICCR Professor at Lund University was Professor Gopal Krishna Karanth from the Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, who arrived at Lund University in September 2011. He stayed for the full academic year 2011-12, and was hosted by the Department of Sociology. SASNET asked Gopal five questions after his leave: Who are you?Gopal Krishna Karanth (also known as

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/gopal-krishna-karanth - 2026-10-03

The third ICCR Visiting Professor was Surinder Jodhka, Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi. He was installed on Friday 12 October 2012, and stayed till end of June 2013. Prof. Jodhka was hosted by the Dept of Political Science. SASNET asked Surinder five questions after his leave: Who are you?

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/surinder-jodhka - 2026-10-03

The fourth and final ICCR Chair Professor at Lund University, staying one academic year from September 2013 till mid June 2014, was Professor Kalyan Sankar Mandal from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) in Kolkata. He was, just like Prof. Karanth, hosted by the Department of Sociology. SASNET asked Kalyan five question after his leave: Who are you?Kalyan Sankar Mandal, Presently, I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/kalyan-sankar-mandal - 2026-10-03

Professor Jayakumari Devika from the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram, India, spent five weeks as a Erasmus Mundus scholarship holder at Lund University during May-June 2015. Officially she was hosted by SASNET as an academic staff, but she was provided a workplace at the Department of Gender Studies. Devika was selected for this exchange programme as a candidate for the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/jayakumari-devika - 2026-10-03

During the period 2001–2009, SASNET distributed planning grants to new research and educational projects. A total number of 119 networking grants were distributed to Swedish researchers working on South Asia related projects within all fields – from technology and natural sciences to humanities, social sciences and educational sciences. The researchers who benefited from the grants belonged to 20

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/planning-grants-2001-09 - 2026-10-03

A total number of 12 applications for SASNET planning grants were received. Total amount applied for was 1.25 Million SEK. Decisions were taken on 27 April 2001. SEK 625 000 were distributed.  Planning grants for research programmes Jan Lundqvist and Julie Wilks, Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University: “Triple Integration. Targeting poverty with water and social progra

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/planning-grants-2001-09/200101 - 2026-10-03

A total number of 5 applications for SASNET planning grants were received. Total amount applied for was 500 120 SEK. Decisions were taken on 24 January 2002. SEK 268 000 were distributed. Planning grants for research programmes/projects Alia Ahmad, Department of Economics; Neelambar Hatti, Dept. of Economic History; and Pernille Gooch, Division of Human Ecology, Lund University: “State, Community

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/planning-grants-2001-09/200102 - 2026-10-03

A total number of 26 applications for SASNET planning grants were received. Total amount applied for was 2.34 Million SEK. Decisions were taken on 27 August 2002. SEK 700 000 were distributed. Planning grants for research programmes/projects Ranjula Bali Swain, Dept of Economics, Uppsala University: “Feminization of Debt: Women Empowerment and Social Impact of Microfinance in South Asia.” 75 000 S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/planning-grants-2001-09/200201 - 2026-10-03