This weekly digest is a collection of news, upcoming events and other opportunities from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University and the wider area, compiled for Graduate School students.
- SASNET Panel Discussion
- RISE Awards – competition in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
- SANORD Conference – Knowledge Economies in a Changing World
- PhD Opportunity
SASNET Panel Discussion: “Women’s Rights in South Asia”itle
This week, SASNET is hosting a public panel discussion on the current state of women’s rights in South Asia. The discussion will include topics such as legal and political rights, socioeconomic challenges, and gender-based violence and safety. The panelists will represent different countries in the region, including India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan. The panelists are:
Nitasha Kaul, Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster (UK).
Kate Lonergan, Postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (UHGS), Uppsala University, with a research focus on reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence and atrocities.
Radha Adhikari, Dr. Lecturer at the School of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of Scotland (UK).
Maryam Safi, Research Fellow at the Afghanistan Programme, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
Date and time: 20th March 17:15-18:30
Location: Eden Auditorium, Department of Political Science
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Competition for students and doctoral students in entrepreneurship and sustainability
Do you have a contractor project that is also sustainable? Apply for the international competition RISE Awards!
RISE Awards stands for Real Impact on Society and Environment and is a competition for student-led projects that work to achieve the UN’s global sustainability goals. Each project must clearly strive to achieve at least one of the UN’s goals. You can be at an early stage, but the project should be more than a theoretical idea.
The competition consists of a local and international round. The local round will be decided in a live pitch competition on May 15th where the pitches will be recorded. Two winners will be chosen and their videos will be submitted to the international round. The winners of the international round will be awarded 2000 USD.
Deadline: 7 April 2025
For more information, visit this page
Apply for a travel grant for SANORD’s conference 13–15 August 2025
You can now apply for a travel grant for participation in SANORD’s annual conference, which will be arranged 13–15 August 2025 at Aarhus University, Denmark. The Knowledge Economies in a Changing World conference seeks to gather scholars, practitioners, and students to engage with critical issues around the changing landscape of global knowledge economies. It will provide a platform to interrogate the role of universities in navigating these transitions, advancing decolonial agendas, and fostering new forms of partnership and innovation.
For more information and instructions for the application, please contact Pär Svensson par.svenssson@er.lu.se.
Date and time: August 13-15
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Read more about the conference SANORD 2025: Knowledge Economies in a Changing World
PhD Opportunity in Gender Studies
The Department of Gender Studies is recruiting a PhD student, with the role commencing on the 1st September 2025. The position as a PhD student is a four-year full-time position that may require teaching or other departmental work up to 20%, which can extend the total employment period to a maximum of five years. Research at the Department of Gender Studies combines highly developed theoretical frameworks with solid, rich, and reflective empirical analysis, with strengths in intersectional perspectives on gender and sexuality and feminist methods.
Find out more information here.
Application Deadline: 6th April 2025