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Much more than just a peak into the ivory tower; collaborating with external actors and bringing our knowledge to the public is how our researchers influence society’s views on science and make people aware of challenges ahead, past, or existing ones. At this year’s Nobel event at LUSEM, researchers, teachers, staff and friends of our school were able to celebrate both the prize-winning scientists

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-outreach-award-and-outstanding-research-award - 2025-12-15

As the year draws to a close, we look back on a selection of activities, results, and achievements at LUSEM and across Lund University. How often do you get to be the best in the world at something? Even more meaningful when it's for leading the way in sustainability — as Lund University was recently ranked #1 globally by QS.There we can probably leave the broader LU perspective behind and focus s

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/2025-comes-close - 2025-12-15

Three students from LUSEM were invited as audience for the round table discussion in Stockholm with the Nobel laureates, earlier in December. The show was broadcast on SVT and BBC World on 18 December 2023 and can be streamed online anytime. We asked three quick questions about the experience to Rami Zalfou, a doctoral student in Economic History at LUSEM.What did it feel like to participate in th

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-students-audience-nobel-minds-round-table-discussion - 2025-12-15

Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historianMartha Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California (UCLA). She also works at the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Baile

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2025-12-15

When President Emmanuel Macron visits Studentafton Wednesday, January 31, it is Sylvia Schwaag Serger, professor in Economic history at LUSEM, who will moderate the conversation. As proud as we are curious, we asked her a few quick questions ahead of her exciting talk. How did it come about that you will be moderating President Emmanuel Macron when he visits Studentafton?  “I’m not sure, I was ask

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/meeting-president-macron-quick-chat-sylvia-schwaag-serger - 2025-12-15

The international application period is over and we can conclude that once again, LUSEM has some of the most popular master's programmes both within Lund University and nationally. What do the programme managers themselves think about the two most popular programmes, and what do the present and former students say? For many years, our Master's programme in International Marketing & Brand Managemen

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-claims-top-spot-among-most-applied-masters-programmes - 2025-12-15

The Conversation is an online news outlet written by researchers, working together with professional journalists. All content is published as open source and the website’s articles reach a total audience of 10 million readers – every month. Associate Professor Sverre Spoelstra is one of the LUSEM researchers who has chosen to write for The Conversation. The Conversation is an online news outlet wr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sverre-spoelstra-how-researchers-reach-global-audience-conversation - 2025-12-15

Fredrik NG Andersson, docent in Economics at LUSEM argues that the framework of Financial policy has helped Swedish public sector investments to such a degree that it is highest among comparable Countries in the EU. The problems lie in how the pubic secto prioritizes its investments and in the need of an improved level of productivity in the construction sector. (See the clip in Swedish.) An artic

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-news-comment-det-finanspolitiska-ramverket - 2025-12-15

Professor in Economic History, Maria Stanfors, Associate Professor in Business Administration, Ulf Ramberg,  and Mårten Sommelius, representing staff at LUSEM are the newly elected representatives of LUSEM to the Lund University Electoral College.Protocol of the vote count (PDF)22 Feb 2024

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-lusem-representatives-lund-university-electoral-college - 2025-12-15

18 people came from Africa to Lund to learn more about innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development. Why come all this way? And what knowledge will they bring back? Meet Pamla, Faith, Nahed and David and learn more about their thoughts on the four weeks course. And on the LundaCarnival 😁 When Senior lecturer in Economic history Martin Andersson learned that a new course o

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/africa-lund-joining-course-lusem - 2025-12-15

From physical diplomas, signed by the Dean to a printable PDF version. The change has stirred emotions among students and the student organisation Ateneum has made its opinion known on message boards around the school. Starting this spring students at Lund University will be receiving their degree certificates as a PDF rather than the traditional printed version with their Dean's signature. Lund U

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/pdf-diplomas-stir-emotions - 2025-12-15

The FT provides authoritative news coverage on global business, finance and politics, helping academics and students understand the international business environment and connect classroom theory with business practice. To get immediate access to FT.com, please sign up on the link https://ft.com/lu  using your university email address.If you already have a registered FT.com account, please input y

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/about-access-financial-times - 2025-12-15

Niklas Altermark and Emil Edeborg have published their article “Visualizing the Included Subject: Photography, Progress Narratives, and Intellectual Disability” in the journal ”Subjectivity”. In the article, Altermark and Edenborg examine how photographs are used to create a progress narrative of disability politics that hamper our understanding of how this group is being oppressed today.  Learn m

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/photographs-disability-politics - 2025-12-15

Annika Bergman Rosamond has, together with Michelle Pace (Roskilde), co-authored the article “Political Legitimacy and celebrity politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East envoy 2007-2016”. The article is published in the journal Middle East Critique. This article explores former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role as the official envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, with many observers quest

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-politician-tony-blairs-role-middle-east-envoy - 2025-12-15

Klas Nilsson has recently received a prize for his dissertation ”The Money of Monarchs”. The award is conferred by Vetenskapssocieteten and was presented at the annual celebration held on November 23. Vetenskapssocieteten exists to promote humanist research, in part by providing support to younger researchers.Nilsson’s dissertation, the Society notes, “makes an important contribution to the study

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vetenskapssocieteten-lund-gives-prize-dissertation-political-science - 2025-12-15

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have published a joint article in “Review of International Studies”, entitled “Misrecognition and the Indian state: The desire for sovereign agency”. In the article, they show how the Indian state is being rethought, restructured and reimagined through Hindu nationalism and how the concept of misrecognition accounts for desires for sovereign agency and group cohe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-misrecognition-and-indian-state - 2025-12-15

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article ”Theorising Feminist Foreign Policy”, which has been published in International Relations. The article advances a new theoretical framework, which enables a thoroughgoing study of feminist foreign policy. It draws upon feminist international relations theory and the ethics of care to embrace the lived

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/theorising-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-12-15

Maiken Røed has co-authored the article "Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain" published in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article investigates participation bias in the European Commission's online consultations and focuses on the effects of issue characteristics. More information is available on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-european-commissions-online-consultations - 2025-12-15

Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relationship between politics and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elsa-hedling-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-12-15

Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “On the Frontline: Populism and White Nationalism” in the journal Discover Society. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall discusses the dangers of seeing rising ethnic diversity as a threat to democracy and the West – a position held by a number of academics, journalists and commentators in Britain and Europe.Learn more on discoversociety.orgCatarina Kinnval

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/populism-and-white-nationalism - 2025-12-15