Published 19 September 2017 The Swedish Research Council has decided that the Kerstin Hesselgren professorial chair for 2019 will be held by Robyn Eckersley, professor of Policitical Science at the University of Melbourne Australia. During her time in Sweden she will work at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Full article (in Swedish) at The Swedish Research Council web site: 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/robyn-eckersley-lund-guest-professor-2019 - 2025-05-01

Published 19 September 2017 Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-05-01

Published 22 September 2017 Ivan Gusic posted his thesis at the wall in Eden accompanied by collegues. In the background: Deputy Head of Department Björn Badersten. The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-05-01

Published 22 September 2017 Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European cou

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-05-01

Published 26 September 2017 Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-05-01

Published 29 September 2017 Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "tech

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-05-01

Published 6 October 2017 The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-05-01

Published 16 October 2017 Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-05-01

Published 19 October 2017 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-05-01

Published 24 October 2017 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Alter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-05-01

Published 24 October 2017 Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-05-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 4 December 2018 On Tuesday November 27 the first Nordic Huntington Disease Research Meeting took place at the Biomedical Center in Lund.  50 participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway took part of interesting data blitz presentations about clinical research, mechanisms of disease and future therapies. The paus

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/nordic-huntington-disease-research-meeting - 2025-05-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 14 November 2018 Huntington Center in Lund is hosting an information meeting on Huntington's disease on November 19 at the Biomedical Center in Lund. Åsa Petersén will give a talk on the latest research in HD and Håkan Widner, professor and senior consultant in neurology, will be talking about symptoms and treatment. The

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/information-evening-huntingtons-disease - 2025-05-01

Published 9 November 2018 Petersén gives research talk for young people in HD families on November 10 2018 in Stockholm at a 2-day conference organised by the Swedish Huntington Association “Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom". Read more about this event on Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom's webpage (in Swedish)

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-research-talk-young-people-hd-families-stockholm - 2025-05-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 7 November 2018 Åsa Petersén has been awarded a four-year project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), starting from 2019. The grant is awarded for the project entitled Effects of hypothalamic circuitries in Huntington disease. The total granted sum is 4.8 million for 2019-2022.

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-granted-funds-swedish-research-council - 2025-05-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 18 September 2018 Yesterday it was announced that Professor Åsa Petersén will receive the Fernström award at Lund University for younger, successful researchers. The prize is awarded six researches at different Medical Faculties in Sweden, where each and one receives the sum of SEK 100 000. The Lund award ceremony will t

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-petersen-fernstrom-awardee - 2025-05-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 8 January 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz who is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation! Dr. Rana Soylu-Kucharz is awarded a 2 year postdoctoral stipend from the Swedish Brain Foundation to study the role of hypothalamic dysfunction for striatal pathology in HD! Congratulat

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-soylu-kucharz-awarded-postdoctoral-stipend - 2025-05-01

Published 19 December 2017 Hannie Lundgren, Head of Research at Region Skåne, Åsa Petersén and Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, Dean at the Faculty of Medicine. Today the new Huntington Center headed by Åsa Petersén was inaugurated by the dean of the Medical Faculty at Lund University and the Head of Research at Region Skåne. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntington-center-now-inaugurated - 2025-05-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 14 March 2017 TNU är värd för ett råd- och stödgruppsmöte för Riksförbundet för Huntingtons sjukdom i Skåne torsdagen den 1:e juni kl 18.00 - 20.00.Program:18.00-18.10 Välkomna och introduktion av Susanne Zell, RHS18.10-18.40 Föredrag om den senaste forskningen av Åsa Petersén, Lunds Universitet18.40-19.10 Rundtur på for

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-berattar-om-den-senaste-forskningen-riksforbundet-huntingtons-sjukdom-den-1e-juni-2017 - 2025-05-01

By Jenny [dot] Mansson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Månsson) - published 13 November 2008 On July 31st 2008, Åsa Petersén was interviewed on Swedish National Radio, Sveriges Radio P1. 

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/radio-interview-asa-petersen - 2025-05-01