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Ola Hall, head of department, has initiated a new Competence Centre on Earth Observation and Social Sciences — a hub for research, collaboration, and innovation at the intersection of satellite data, AI, and societal development. - Our goal is to bridge Earth observation and social science to better understand and address key societal challenges — from sustainability and welfare to urban change an

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/launch-new-competence-centre-earth-observation-and-social-sciences - 2025-12-15

This three-week event will feature 35 different interactive webinars with recruitment staff, programme staff, and current students. You can join our recruitment officers for a presentation and Q&A about how to apply, subject area sessions with an open Q&A with programme staff and students from each faculty, and several live chat events with current students and alumni! Be sure to stop by and join

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/join-us-lund-university-applicant-weeks-28-november-16-december-2022 - 2025-12-15

We are happy to announce 1-2 PhD positions in Human Geography at the department. Click here to read more and to apply.  

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/1-2-doctoral-studentships-human-geography - 2025-12-15

How to Make Money: Histories of Capitalism from Elsewhere The Human Ecology Division proudly presents: A public lecture with Timothy Mitchell: How to Make Money: Histories of Capitalism from Elsewhere On 17 November, at 10 am. In Världen, Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 12. Timothy Mitchell is professor of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University, a leading political and social theorist and historia

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/public-lecture-timothy-mitchell - 2025-12-15

Amr Khairy Ahmed will defend his PhD dissertation "Egypt Ignited: How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76)." on the 17th of November 2023, 13:00. Amr Khairy Ahmed will defend his PhD dissertation "Egypt Ignited: How Steam Power Arrived on the Nile and Integrated Egypt into Industrial Capitalism (1820s-76)." on the 17th of November 2023, 13:00.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/phd-defense-amr-khairy-ahmed - 2025-12-15

The Student Office is now open for the fall semester and you are welcome to visit us between 13.00 - 15.00 on Tuesdays and 09.00 - 12.00 on Wednesdays. Dear students, The Student Office is now open for the fall semester and you are welcome to visit us between 13.00 - 15.00 on Tuesdays and 09.00 - 12.00 on Wednesdays. You can also call us during these hours or e-mail us when the office is closed. 

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/opening-hours-student-office - 2025-12-15

Over Christmas and New Year, we look forward to much needed rest, both for students and the department's staff. Between December 23 and January 7, we are therefore closed (this also applies to the Student office). Regular opening hours apply again from 8 January 2024. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/departments-opening-hours-over-christmas-and-new-year - 2025-12-15

Welcome to the first season of the KEG-podcast. In each episode you will meet researchers from the department and learn more about human geography research. In the first episode that will be released on February 19 we will talk to researcher Stine Madsen about Sustainable transition in Danish waste management. The interview is held in English. You can listen to the KEG Podcast here.The podcast is

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/coming-soon-keg-podcast - 2025-12-15

The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study that explores the fashion industry's ethical marketing in its advertising and communication aimed at consumers.  Such ethical marketing and communication can involve companies using messages that reinforce the image that th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thesis-sheds-light-how-fashion-companies-use-greenwashing-marketing-campaigns-contributes - 2025-12-15

Congratulations to Master's student Alice Petersson from the Department who won the prize for her thesis "Opportunities for Agency in Offshore Wind Power in Skåne, Sweden?". in KEFU Skåne's essay competition in December 2023. This is the 38th time that KEFU awards a prize of SEK 20,000 for the best thesis in municipal and regional management, organisation and economics.Watch the film where Alice P

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/masters-student-won-prize-competition - 2025-12-15

Martina Angela Caretta, docent at the department, is a co-writer of a newly published article in Carbon Brief. The researchers, in the article, addresses their recent study, published in One Earth, where they’ve investigated how the effectiveness of well-established adaptation options in relation to water changes as the world warms. Their findings show that the effectiveness of water-related adapt

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/climate-adaptation-becomes-less-effective-world-warms - 2025-12-15

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Gunnar Törnqvist on April 7th, 2024. Born in 1933 Professor Törnqvist had a long career, marked by his significant contributions to the study of industrial location, the diffusion of innovation, creativity in time and space, and the evolving economic geography of Europe. Also of note was his public service on expert groups and c

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/memory-gunnar-tornqvist - 2025-12-15

On Friday 24 May, PhD Student Mathilde Martin defended her thesis “Mattering at the periphery – Geographies of peri-urban life and its discontents.” Curious about Mathilde’s thesis? Here’s what it’s all about: Amid rising social discontent in the peripheries of Western European democracies, this thesis offers an exploration of “places that don't matter” through the lens of the French Yellow Vests.

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/mathilde-martin-defended-her-thesis-about-french-yellow-vests - 2025-12-15

Explore this topic in a recently published article (a systematic Scoping Review) by researchers Vasna Ramasar, Martina Angela Caretta and Muriel Côte from the department. This systematic review, which was partially funded by FORMAS grant to Ramasar and Caretta and a internal small grant at the The Department of Human Geography, Lund University, showcases their research interests around extractivis

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/resistance-extractivism-induced-water-insecurity-does-gender-have-role-it - 2025-12-15

Johan Miörner, a researcher at the department, has co-authored a report on behalf of the research institute EAWAG. The report looks at how sustainable cities should develop strategies and practices to reduce water consumption and manage wastewater more sustainably to meet the challenges of climate change. The authors have reviewed six global cities that are already actively developing effective pr

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/less-water-consumption-and-sustainable-wastewater-management-new-report-shows-how-cities-should - 2025-12-15

The Storsjöodjuret, a mythical cryptid* with its roots in Jämtland, was mentioned for the first time as early as the year 1643 and is now being brought up to date again in a new doctoral thesis in human ecology. In the thesis, the author Sanna Händén-Svensson examines how perspectives such as social, cultural, historical and the local affect the shaping of the Storsjöodjuret. The aim of the study

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/new-human-ecology-thesis-storsjoodjur-cryptid-borderland-between-reality-and-imagined - 2025-12-15

Welcome to Lund University. Which university did you recently come from?– I came from Loughborough University in the UK, where I had been since 2010. Prior to that I was based at the University of Copenhagen for 17 years, hence speak fluent Danish. What is (or has been) the main focus of your research? – My research focuses primarily on low-income housing and livelihoods in urban areas of the glob

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/meet-katherine-gough - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15

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 ships, and especially sai

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/hanna-bach-defended-thesis-sustainable-transition-maritime-shipping-sector - 2025-12-15

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 takes readers on a journey through time and space and in a highly interdisciplinary trajectory. This aligns with Thomas' research career, which

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/thomas-malm-publishes-anthology-his-life-researcher - 2025-12-15