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The Swedish Research Council has identified Lund University as a key actor in the next generation of strategic research areas. The university is proposed to be included in six new national research environments.“Lund University is building research for the future. The fact that the Swedish Research Council has identified us in six of eight new areas is clear proof that our research is of the highe
This year’s environmental report from Lund University highlights several positive developments: the University is meeting many of its sustainability targets, train travel is increasing and environmental requirements in procurement are increasing. At the same time, carbon emissions remain at roughly the same level and there are ongoing challenges with purchases linked to high carbon footprints, par
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sustainability-progress-continues-climate-neutrality-remains-challenge - 2026-04-15
Lund University leads a new network researching law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. Eleven European universities are participating with 15 PhD students. Four of these will be based in Lund.The grant will fund the new doctoral network MINARET. The researchers will study how constitutional change unfolds in Muslim-majority societies shaped by imperial legacies.T
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/major-eu-grant-lund-led-phd-programme-islamic-legal-cultures - 2026-04-15
Restart more often, more frequent updates are being introduced to improve IT security. Information about what you need to know about email is available on a new webpage.Time to restart more often!Do you remember the University’s restart fika break? A few years ago, a maximum limit of fourteen days was introduced for how long an update can be postponed in the client solutions managed by Lund Univer
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/it-news-restart-fika-and-new-webpage-about-email - 2026-04-15
Three students from LUSEM were invited as audience for the round table discussion in Stockholm with the Nobel laureates, earlier in December. The show was broadcast on SVT and BBC World on 18 December 2023 and can be streamed online anytime. We asked three quick questions about the experience to Rami Zalfou, a doctoral student in Economic History at LUSEM.What did it feel like to participate in th
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-students-audience-nobel-minds-round-table-discussion - 2026-04-15
Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historianMartha Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California (UCLA). She also works at the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Baile
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leading-us-economist-and-first-deputy-governor-riksbank-new-honorary-doctors - 2026-04-15
When President Emmanuel Macron visits Studentafton Wednesday, January 31, it is Sylvia Schwaag Serger, professor in Economic history at LUSEM, who will moderate the conversation. As proud as we are curious, we asked her a few quick questions ahead of her exciting talk. How did it come about that you will be moderating President Emmanuel Macron when he visits Studentafton? “I’m not sure, I was ask
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/meeting-president-macron-quick-chat-sylvia-schwaag-serger - 2026-04-15
The international application period is over and we can conclude that once again, LUSEM has some of the most popular master's programmes both within Lund University and nationally. What do the programme managers themselves think about the two most popular programmes, and what do the present and former students say? For many years, our Master's programme in International Marketing & Brand Managemen
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-claims-top-spot-among-most-applied-masters-programmes - 2026-04-15
The Conversation is an online news outlet written by researchers, working together with professional journalists. All content is published as open source and the website’s articles reach a total audience of 10 million readers – every month. Associate Professor Sverre Spoelstra is one of the LUSEM researchers who has chosen to write for The Conversation. The Conversation is an online news outlet wr
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sverre-spoelstra-how-researchers-reach-global-audience-conversation - 2026-04-15
Fredrik NG Andersson, docent in Economics at LUSEM argues that the framework of Financial policy has helped Swedish public sector investments to such a degree that it is highest among comparable Countries in the EU. The problems lie in how the pubic secto prioritizes its investments and in the need of an improved level of productivity in the construction sector. (See the clip in Swedish.) An artic
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-news-comment-det-finanspolitiska-ramverket - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET affiliated researcher Therese Boje Mortensen recently published two articles in Sydasien magazine on the outsourcing of Indian government schemes to local NGOs and PM Modi's supporters in the ongoing elections. Government schemes in India reach far – but government jobs do notThe Indian state outsources a range
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/therese-boje-mortensen-published-two-articles-indian-politics - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Oxford graduate Thakkar arrived in Lund for a month-long fellowship with SASNET. Chirayu Thakkar graduated recently from the Modern South Asian Studies program from the University of Oxford. He is currently a graduate student in political science at the Central European University, Hungary. His primary interests are I
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-research-fellow-chirayu-thakkar - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET affiliated researchers Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson recently participated in two seminars in Belgium on media challenges in the Indian and European elections. Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson, program director at LU School of Journalism, participated in a panel talk at the Press Club in ce
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researchers-presented-collaborative-project-belgium - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Rishi Jha recently presented his paper on narratives of displacement and evictions of the urban poor in Mumbai at the Frontiers of Accumulation at the University of Copenhagen. On May 13, 2019, Rishi Jha, doctoral student and Lund University's School of Social Work and SASNET affiliated researcher, presented his lates
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-presented-conference-university-copenhagen - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Chirayu Thakkar, currently visiting SASNET as a research fellow, published an on Modi's foreign policy in The Diplomat. In his article, that was published in The Diplomat's online format on 22 May 2019, Thakkar discusses the international but also the domestic rationale of PM Narendra Modi's "Look West" policy, aiming
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-sasnet-research-fellow-published-diplomat - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Admir Skodo has recently published a report on Afghanistan and the ongoing peace talks between the Talibans and USA in Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor. Afghanistan and the Taliban: Peace at what price?Peace talks have been going on last year between the United States and the Taliban for a solution to the long, bloody conf
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-has-published-report-afghanistan - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET director Andreas Johansson moderated a session on European Perspectives on the Indo-Pacific. On Monday 3 June SASNET co-hosted the joint symposium Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center? in Singapore. The symposium was an collaboration between, National University of Singapore – Institu
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-symposium-indo-pacific-singapore - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The South Asia across the Nordic Region Conference (SANR) 2019 took place on June 11 and 12 in Uppsala and had participants from various Swedish and foreign academic institutions. The 2019 SANR conference was hosted by Sasnet/Lund University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, and Swedish
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-successful-nordic-south-asian-conference - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Isha arrived in early June and will work for SASNET as a post-doctoral researcher for the next two years. Isha Dubey graduated with a PhD in History from the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in October 2017 for her doctoral dissertation, The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh and the Idea of ‘Home’: Migrati
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-post-doc-isha-dubey - 2026-04-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organised a panel on current Indian domestic and foreign policy at this year's Almedalen. The talk is now availabke as a podcast. At the recent Almedalen week, SASNET and UI hosted a seminar on current Indian policies and their relevance for Sweden
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/podcast-seminar-almedalen-2019 - 2026-04-15
