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The Faculty's by-election to the Nominating Committee is now complete, and a meeting to announce the election results has been held at the Faculty Office. The new member of the Nomination Committee is Terese Anving, senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology. The committee now has the following composition:Representatives of teaching staff with research expertiseÅsa Thelander, senior lecturer,

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/terese-anving-elected-facultys-nominating-committee - 2026-09-01

In autumn 2026, the Faculty of Social Sciences will start a new Swedish Master's Programme in Comprehensive Defence and Civil Preparedness at Campus Helsingborg. The programme meets the increasing demand for expertise in the field of total defence and provides students with interdisciplinary knowledge of how society can withstand and manage crises – from security policy challenges to climate chang

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-masters-programme-comprehensive-defence-and-civil-preparedness - 2026-09-01

The Faculty of Social Sciences published 19 articles on The Conversation in 2025, reaching 168,000 readers. The faculty had the second-most articles of all faculties and covered topics from the MAGA movement to the Turkey-PKK conflict. Lund University had a record year on The Conversation in 2025. The university’s researchers published 76 articles that together reached 1.1 million reads. In total,

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/researchers-faculty-social-sciences-reached-168000-readers-conversation - 2026-09-01

Each year the Faculty of Social Sciences announces a number of recurring grants that are available to apply for certain categories of faculty staff. Also, please note the deadlines concerning appointments and courses for teaching in higher education. GrantsFaculty travel and research grantsResearchers, doctoral students, lecturers or readers at Lund University can apply for the faculties’ travel a

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/important-application-dates-2026 - 2026-09-01

The Sunet Scribe service enables researchers at Lund University to digitally transcribe research data in the form of audio and video files. Transcription support is available in several languages. The service is approved for use with research data containing sensitive personal information – the data is encrypted during all transfers and the information is not stored by Sunet after transcription. A

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-transcription-tool-researchers - 2026-09-01

The application deadline to programmes in the international admissions round was 15 January. Once again, we are seeing an increase in the total number of applicants to programmes at the Faculty of Social Sciences. While the number of first-choice applicants to the Faculty remains unchanged compared to last year, the total number of applicants has increased by three per cent.The programmes with the

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/more-applicants-facultys-international-masters-programmes-0 - 2026-09-01

Lund University is hiring 45 new assistant professors and visiting professors this spring. The initiative, which involves just over SEK 30 million in university-wide funding, represents a significant boost to operations – not least at the Faculty of Social Sciences, which is welcoming nine of the new recruits. The number of applications for Lund University’s international recruitment drive was hig

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/unprecedented-interest-international-recruitment - 2026-09-01

A new guide is now available to help you write competitive research applications. The Research Council of Faculty of Social Sciences has compiled its best advice on content, structure and assessment criteria. The guide provides concrete tips on what a research application should contain and what reviewers look for in particular.You can find the guide on the page ’'Research funding’. There you will

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/write-stronger-research-applications-new-guide-faculty-researchers - 2026-09-01

When staff members at the Faculty of Social Sciences move into Allhelgonaskolan, many will need to get used to new ways of working and adopt a more activity-based approach. The building will also be opened up so that everyone working within the faculty can use one of the floors for various activities, such as meetings. An activity-based office is based on a simple idea: different tasks require dif

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/activity-based-workplace-allhelgonaskolan-what-does-mean-practice - 2026-09-01

Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The week features more than 70 events and all of them are free of charge. As usual, researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences participate in several interesting events. Come and listen to your colleagues! Faculty of Social Sciences events during Sustainabilty WeekFaculty of S

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/social-scientists-sustainability-week-13-18-april - 2026-09-01

The Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) and the Faculty of Social Sciences offer a course for researchers planning to apply for the title of docent (associate professor/reader) in the near future. The course is seminar-based and designed to be both inspirational and informative, providing useful knowledge about the research process and academia more broadly. Participants are

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/becoming-docent-joint-course-lusem-and-faculty-social-sciences - 2026-09-01

The faculty's list of recognised and excellent teachers is growing. At the latest Faculty Board meeting, another eight persons received recognition of their teaching skills through the appointment as Recognised or Excellent Teaching Practitioners. Newly appointed Recognised Teaching Practitioners:Ilkin Mehrabov, Department of Communication and Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern StudiesMichael Boss

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/eight-new-recognised-and-excellent-teachers - 2026-09-01

Registration is now open for Active Learning in Social Science, a pedagogical course offered for the second year at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The course introduces active learning as an approach to support student centred learning and teaching. About the courseThe course is offered during the autumn semester and is primarily aimed at teachers and doctoral students at the Faculty of Social Sc

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/active-learning-social-science-now-offered-second-year - 2026-09-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. 2010 startade en av världens största studier av genernas betydelse vid bröstcancer i ett tätt samarbete mellan Lunds universitet och sjukvården i södra Sverige. Nu, sju år senare, har man inom forskningsprojektet, SCAN-B (Sweden Cancerome Analysis Network Breast), samlat in prover från mer än 10 000 patienter. Varje

https://www.scan-b.lu.se/artikel/prov-fran-10-000-patienter-ska-ge-battre-cancerbehandling - 2026-09-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Join us for a digital seminar on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 100th anniversary, post-colonial leader and the founder of Bangladesh. Register here to attend the Zoom Webinar.The speakers will also present Anisur Rahman's book Jag är Sheikh Mujib. Bengali-Swedish author Rahman's epic monologue I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/upcoming-seminar-sheikh-mujib-icon-postcolonial-liberation - 2026-09-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Anindita Majumdar from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India. holds a SASNET/Gender studies lecture at Lund University on Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15.00–17.00.The seminar, is entitled ” Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World”. Venue: Room 221, Department of Gender Studies, Al

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetgender-studies-seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2026-09-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Chakra - Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies's Special Issue "Articulations of a Pandemic" is now available on our website. Earlier this year, SASNET had published a call for papers focusing on social-political, cultural, economic, and psychological cost of COVID-19 as well as the question of how to do proper re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-special-issue-published - 2026-09-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Guest lecture to be held by Professor David Ludden on April 27 at University of Copenhagen David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History at New York University, holds an open lecture entitled: History Inside Globalization: Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia at Un

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/david-ludden-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2026-09-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, was awarded a grant by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Dr. Myrvold received funding for her project "Iconic Scriptures in Colonial Punjab: Sikh Religion, Print Culture, and Politics" (project description below).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliate-kristina-myrvold-receives-research-grant - 2026-09-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The year 2020 has not been without challenges, but at SASNET we have succeeded in continuing to build knowledge and research on the South Asian region through a variety of formats and international collaborations. 2020 was a turbulent year, but despite the pandemic-related challenges, we at SASNET can look back on a w

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2026-09-01