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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic contributed with a chapter on Gender and Transitional Justice, and one chapter with Susanne Buckley-Zistel on Memorials and Transitional Justice in the book An Introduction to Transitional Justice edited by Olivera Simic. Learn m

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gender-and-transitional-justice - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Linda Nyberg defended her dissertation "Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid Policy" today, 21st April at 10:15 am in the Eden auditorium, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Discussant was Ben Rosamond from Copenhagen University.Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid PolicyL

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/linda-nyberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article "Peacekeeping deployment abroad and the self-perceptions of the effect on career advancement, status and reintegration” published in print a few weeks ago (published online in August). R

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-happens-military-careers-un-soldiers-after-their-un-service - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article ”The civilised Self and the barbaric Other: ex-rebels making sense of sexual violence in the DR Congo” which was recently published online. Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-ex-rebels-make-sense-sexual-violence - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Today, 26th April, Niklas Altermark will participate in the parliamentary hearing on personal assistance. Also participating are representatives of the disability movement, other researchers from a variety of disciplines and a number of people heavily involved when personal assistance was introduced. The pur

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-parliamentary-seminar-personal-assistance - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Björkdahl was invited to give a talk entitled ”Peace and the Politics of Memory” at St. Andrews University in Scotland on Monday the 17th April at the Arts Lecture Theatre. The talk was part of the School of International Relations, IR Monday Seminar Series.St. Andrews University's websiteAnnika Björkdahl's per

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gave-talk-scotland-peace-and-politics-memory - 2026-05-19

During his research education, Jonathan Timpka wanted to elucidate what is affecting the ability to work for patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Defending his Ph.D. thesis on November 19th, Jonathan tells about his wide range of projects within the Restorative Parkinson Unit led by Per Odin. Tell us about your Ph.D. research! My research engagement has been quite diverse, ranging from reg

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-jonathan-timpka - 2026-05-19

Gene expression inside Parkinson’s disease patient’s brain cells seems to trigger structural changes of the Parkinson-linked protein alpha-synuclein. This was discovered when MultiPark researchers converted skin cells from Parkinson patients into midbrain cells in the dish. The study was published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder lin

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/environment-inside-brain-cells-holds-clues-protein-aggregation - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Niklas Altermark’s article 'The Post-Institutional Era: Visions of History in Research on Intellectual Disability' is included in the 30 year anniversary issue of the leading disability studies journal Disability & Society. AbstractIn this article, I address how the history of intellectual di

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/glancing-back-intellectual-disability-research - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Per Andersson defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" on 19th May at 10 o'clock in Hornbergssalen, Kulturen, Lund. External reviewer: Reader Lucas Leeman, Department of Government, University os Essex, UK."Essays on the Politics of Taxation"Per Andersson's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/andersson-has-defended-his-thesis - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Stephanie Kappler published the book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation. Peace, Space and Place with Routledge. The book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analyzing the links between peacebuilding agency, space and place. It focu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-investigates-peacebuilding - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH. Fabio Cristiano gave a talk at the conference “Fear and Loathing of the Online Self” in Rome, featuring Franco Bifo Berardi, Jodi Dean, Wendy Chun, Gabriella Coleman, and many others. More info: http://networkcultures.org/online-self/program/.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cristiano-online-conference - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Kurtis Boyer has a new chapter entitled: "Saving the Polar Bear and Other Objects" published in the new anthology : "Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory" from the University of Alaska Press. Link to PublisherLink to Kurtis Boyer's Personal Page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/boyer-affect-and-politics-arctic-wildlife-protection - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck has published the article “Representing the Region on the Floor: Socioeconomic Characteristics of Electoral Districts and Legislative Speechmaking”. The article which focuses on how representatives from different regions participate in parliamentary debates.Read full articleHanna Bäck's personal webpage

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-representation-and-parliamentary-debates - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell gave a number of papers at the ECPR conference “European Conference on Politics and Gender” in Lausanne, Switzerland 8-11 June. Annika Bergman Rosamond was also an invited speaker on the final plenary roundtable  'Gender at the Border: the Refugee Crisis in Europe’

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/plenary-roundtable-and-papers-ecpr-conference - 2026-05-19

During his Ph.D. studies, Alexander Svanbergsson has established a modelling system to screen for factors affecting the aggregation of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease. On the 3rd of December, it is time for him to defend his work supervised by Prof. Jia-Yi Li. Now, Alexander tells us about his research in the research group Neural Plasticity and Repair at MultiPark. What is your research ab

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-alexander-svanbergsson - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nina Wilén has published the article "Gender and Blue Helmets" that reviews two new books on gender and peacebuilding. The books are The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, policing and the UN's first all-female peacekeeping unit, by Lesley J Pruitt, and Gender and peacebuilding, by Claire Duncanson.Both books focus on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-comparing-two-books-gender-and-peacebuilding - 2026-05-19

Nina Wilén, guest researcher at the Department of Political Science, has together with Bert Ingelaere at the University of Antwerpen published the article "War-torn Congo has been called the “rape capital of the world.” Here is how fighters think about sexual violence." "Here's what we've missed until now: How do rebels think about sexual violence? That's what we asked former rebels in Congo". Nin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilen-how-rebels-think-about-sexual-violence - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Björkdahl och Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have published the article "Feeling Silence in a Place of Pain" in International Feminist Journal of Politics. The article describes the denial of war-time wrapes in the small town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnien-Herzegovina. "What are we doing here? We are here to expe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/silence-deny-war-time-wrape - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 (i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/robyn-eckersley-lund-guest-professor-2019 - 2026-05-19