Published 18 December 2024 Over Christmas and New Year, we look forward to a much-needed rest, both for students and department staff. From December 21, 2024 - January 6, 2025, our premises are therefore completely closed. Regular opening hours are valid from January 7, 2025. The Student office opens January 7, as well. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/opening-hours-during-holidays - 2025-08-13

Published 23 January 2025 Congratulations to Hanna Bach who defended her thesis "Navigating Sustainable Shipping - Multi-scalar Transition Dynamics in the Maritime Shipping Sector." We took the opportunity to ask Hanna some questions about her research. Why did you choose to focus on the maritime shipping sector? What was it about the subject that interested you from the start?- The sea, boats and

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/hanna-bach-defended-thesis-sustainable-transition-maritime-shipping-sector - 2025-08-13

Published 7 February 2025 Thomas shares his knowledge about exotic plats to students at the Botanic Garden in Lund. Photo: Christer Lindberg Thomas Malm, Professor of Human Ecology, has published the anthology On Interdisciplinary Paths - Thoughts and Memories. This collection of essays focuses mainly on Oceania, the part of the world where Thomas has traveled and researched the most. The book tak

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thomas-malm-publishes-anthology-his-life-researcher - 2025-08-13

Published 26 February 2025 The Department is hiring a PhD student in economic geography. The position is connected to research projects that focus on innovation and socio-technical transitions in the urban water management sector – globally and in select high- and middle-income cities. The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-phd-position-economic-geography - 2025-08-13

Published 5 March 2025 Vasna Ramasar and Muriel Côte participated in a panel discussion on ecofeminism Four researchers from the department participated in the “Feminist Festival” in Malmö this weekend. Martina Angela Caretta held a keynote speech titled What do gender and intersectionality have to do with the environment? A feminist talk on climate justice. In her talk, she provided examples from

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/researchers-shed-light-feminist-geography-festival - 2025-08-13

Published 25 November 2014 During this application round four (4) applications were received. A decision has now been taken to award two scholarships, which consequently go to:Beatrice Fäldt - Gender, Children and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - A study on gender relations in the Nicaraguan contextCecilia Emilsson - Chachawarmi and Its Effects on Female Participation in Rural BoliviaWe would like

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/results-second-application-round-during-autumn-2014-minor-field-studies-scholarships - 2025-08-13

Published 20 January 2015 A research programme in Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUCID) invites applications for up to eight PhD positions and one post-doc position, including PhD in Human Geography and PhD in Human Ecology.LUCID is a Linnaeus programme sponsored by The Swedish Research Council Formas for the period 2008-2018. It operates as a cross-faculty consortium of four departmen

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lucid-announces-phd-position-human-ecology-and-phd-position-human-geography - 2025-08-13

Published 21 January 2015 Elin Brudin (SGSPL - Bachelor's in Urban and Regional Planning batch 2011-2014) has received a third prize for her Bachelor's thesis in a thesis contest 2014 from Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. Read more (in Swedish). Elin's thesis is available in open access and can be downloaded from Lund University Student Thesis Database. Elin's Bachelor's thesis

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/elin-brudin-receives-prize - 2025-08-13

Published 13 February 2015 Johan Sandberg, the Director of Studies for LUMID - our Master's Programme in International Development and Management - presented a dissertation brief "Transformative Social Policy in Development? Demystifying Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America", written to the Expert Group Evaluation of Swedish Aid, at the Foreign Ministry."Transformative Social Policy in Deve

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lumids-director-studies-johan-sandberg-has-presented-development-dissertation-brief - 2025-08-13

Published 12 March 2015 Please note that there is an information meeting regarding MFS scholarship for Spring 2015 (application deadline: 16/4). The meeting takes place from 4 to 5 pm (sharp), in Världen (room 111), Geocentrum I.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mfs-information-meeting-193-4-pm - 2025-08-13

Published 13 March 2015 Foto: Joakim Stierna The upcoming development of ESS in Lund might lead to a serious housing shortage in the Scania region, according to Marko Huttunen. On the 12th of March, his research was noticed by the Swedish newspaper Skånskan. Some municipalities in Scania are better prepared for Lund's upcoming research expansion than others. Read more about Marko's thesis at http:

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/marko-huttunens-thesis-recieves-attention-swedish-newspaper - 2025-08-13

Published 28 May 2015 Welcome to the latest edition of the LUMID newsletter! To kick things off, Director of Studies Johan Sandberg surmises his reflections from his first semester at the helm of the programmet. The articles that follow will keep you informed and up to date with recent developments at the LUMID programme.LUMID newsletter Spring 2015   

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/check-out-lumids-newsletter-spring-2015 - 2025-08-13

Published 28 May 2015 The Boards of Sydsvenska Geografiska Sällskapet and Torsten Hägerstrands Stiftelse hereby wish to announce the recipients of the Torsten Hägerstrands Stipends 2015. A total of 14 applications were received and subsequently scrutinized by a Working Group within the Boards. The working group then presented a suggestion of recipients to the Boards for their respective decisions.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/recipients-torsten-hagerstrands-stipends-2015 - 2025-08-13

Published 25 August 2015 The MFS scholarship application round has started for Autumn 2015. Application deadline is October 6th. More information about the application and forms can be found here (in Swedish). Sida’s MFS scholarship is aimed at students on Bachelor's and Master's levels who would like to collect research material in a developing country for their degree theses. During at least eig

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mfs-application-round-autumn-2015 - 2025-08-13

Published 3 September 2015 Do you want to go on exchange studies? As a student at Lund University you have the possibility to spend one semester at another university in a different country. APPLY 15 September – 15 October, 2015  INFORMATION MEETING 17 September | Eden hörsal, Paradisgatan 5H | 16.00-18.00 More information about studying abroad (Information broschure Autumn 2015)MORE INFORMATION A

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/study-abroad - 2025-08-13

Published 4 September 2015 In the attached article, Human Ecology PhD Marcella Samuels reports interesting news from the FoodDiversity Pre-Study Project! New Baltic Sea Region partnership explores benefits of integrating biodiversity into small-scale food production to enhance food securityThe FoodDiversity Pre-Study Project had an energetic start at its kickoff meeting held August 19th-21st on th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/fooddiversity-prestudy-launches-sambruket - 2025-08-13

Published 8 October 2015 Check your student email for the Lund University freshers’ survey! The survey has been sent to students who have never previously studied in Lund. The survey questions are about the expectations you have of your study programme/course and why you chose to study at Lund University. By responding to the survey, you will help us improve your programme or course!We are very gr

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/take-lund-university-freshers-survey - 2025-08-13

Published 15 October 2015 This year we received 9 applications. During this application round nine (9) applications were received. A decision has now been taken to award two scholarships, which consequently go to:Marko Huttunen: The spreading of gated communities to lower income groups in Sao PaoloThea Astrid Hamleton: Men’s concerns and engagement toward enhancing gender equality in Aleta Wondo i

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/results-mfs-application-round-autumn-2015 - 2025-08-13

Published 14 December 2015 We are sorry to announce that today's guest seminar is unfortunately cancelled due to illness. We are sorry to announce that today's guest seminar is unfortunately cancelled due to illness.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/cancelled-invited-speakers-human-geography-emilie-stroh - 2025-08-13

Published 28 January 2016 We are delighted to inform you that the Lumid programme received a total of 1,220 student applications for the coming year, which constitutes an approximately 50 per cent increase from last year. As usual, only 40 students will be admitted to the programme. The LUMID programme (a two-year interdisciplinary master programme) provides students with in-depth and applied know

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lumid-high-demand - 2025-08-13