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On 17 June, staff and guests gathered at the Department of Political Science in Lund to celebrate the release of the jubilee book Statsvetenskapliga institutionens underbara öden och äventyr. 75 år i samhällsforskningens tjänst. Edited by Magnus Jerneck, the book traces the department’s development into a modern environment for research and education. Through personal testimonies and broader refle

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/book-launch-celebrates-75-years-political-science-lund - 2026-10-13

In a new study, Stina Melander explores how individuals with acquired impairments view participation in disability organizations. The findings show that engagement cannot be explained solely by time and resources. Equally important is whether the organization is perceived as relevant and whether individuals feel that their participation matters and can make a difference. The study also highlights

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/why-do-some-people-engage-disability-organizations-while-others-choose-not - 2026-10-13

The winner of the EISA´s Best Dissertation Award 2026 is Anne Lene Stein (Lund University) for her thesis “Agonism against the Odds: Epistemic Disruptions and Bodies of Dissent in Palestine and Israel”. The committee commentThe committee found that the thesis offers an original and significant contribution to peace and conflict studies through its innovative concept of agonistic epistemic disrupti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anne-lene-stein-winner-eisas-best-dissertation-award-2026 - 2026-10-13

What happens to accountability and public oversight when municipalities increasingly rely on private security actors? With new faculty funding, Ketevan Bolkvadze will bring together municipalities, civil society, and other stakeholders to examine the risks associated with delegated security — and explore how they can be identified, prevented, and addressed. Ketevan Bolkvadze has received faculty f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ketevan-bolkvadze-receives-funding-collaboration-private-security-and-public-accountability - 2026-10-13

How does political communication on social media influence increasing political polarization? Can the platforms’ algorithms help to exacerbate divisions between political camps? A new research project at Lund University will investigate this. The Swedish Research Council has awarded SEK 4,859,000 to the project 'A Divisive Spiral? Elite Communication, Voter Engagement, and Algorithmic Amplificatio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-receives-nearly-sek-49-million-research-social-media-and-political-polarization - 2026-10-13

How does communication from public authorities influence people's willingness to contribute to Sweden's total defence? This question lies at the heart of a new research project at Lund University. The Swedish Research Council has awarded SEK 6,620,000 to the project Mobilizing for Total Defense: How Public Authority Communication Shapes Citizens’ Defense Willingness. Sweden's reinstated total defe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roxanna-sjostedt-and-hanna-back-awarded-sek-66-million-study-how-public-communication-shapes - 2026-10-13

For one day, the third floor of the Eden building was transformed into the heart of European Union decision-making. In a large-scale negotiation role-play, 45 master's students from Lund University stepped into the roles of heads of government, ministers, European Commissioners, and senior officials, gaining first-hand experience of how EU politics works from the inside. Learning about the EU by e

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/day-heart-eu-decision-making-students-took-their-seats-negotiating-table - 2026-10-13

When is it democratically justifiable to disrupt the status quo, and might protest even be necessary for democracy to survive? These are some of the questions explored by Markus Holdo in his new book, The Responsibility to Disrupt. Drawing on both classical and contemporary political theory, Markus Holdo examines citizens’ right and responsibility to challenge established structures in order to mo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/does-democracy-need-disruption-survive-new-book-connects-protest-ai-debate - 2026-10-13

On 9 October, Katja Garson successfully defended her doctoral thesis in Political Science at Lund University. Congratulations to our newest Doctor! Her dissertation, "Boreal Forest Temporalities: Temporal Politics in Finland and Sweden", highlights voices, relationships and narratives that are often overlooked or excluded from political and public discussions about forests. Summary of Boreal fores

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/katja-garson-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Karin Aggestam has penned a chapter entitled Conflict Analysis and International Relations in the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/conflict-analysis-and-international-relations - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SYMPOSIUM. Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies invites the public to the symposium Social Resistance in Non-Democracies 25-26 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-resistance-non-democracies - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Christian Göbel speaks about Digitalisation instead of Democracy: Online Complaints as Drivers of Regime Institutionalization in China at the Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies conference.  Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digitalisation-instead-democracy - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The milestone 2000 likes on the department's Facebook has just been reached. Thanks all Fb-friends! Learn more, go to our facebook.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/2000-thanks - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall has co-edited the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/palgrave-handbook-global-political-psychology - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European University Institute is offering 160 grants for a fully funded PhD programme (including political science). Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-grants - 2026-10-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Emil Persson has penned the article Banning “Homosexual Propaganda”: Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary Russian Media, which has recently been published in Sexuality & Culture Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/banning-homosexual-propaganda - 2026-10-13