All news
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5 Mar 2025
Researchers shed light on feminist geography at festival
Four researchers from the department participated in the “Feminist Festival” in Malmö this weekend. Martina Angela Caretta held a keynote speech titled What do gender and intersect...
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26 Feb 2025
New PhD position in economic geography
The Department is hiring a PhD student in economic geography. The position is connected to research projects that focus on innovation and socio-technical transitions in the urban w...
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7 Feb 2025
Thomas Malm publishes anthology on his life as a researcher
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 pa...
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23 Jan 2025
Hanna Bach defended thesis on sustainable transition in the Maritime Shipping Sector
Congratulations to Hanna Bach who defended her thesis "Navigating Sustainable Shipping - Multi-scalar Transition Dynamics in the Maritime Shipping Sector." We took the opportunity ...
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18 Dec 2024
Opening hours during the Holidays
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 co...
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6 Nov 2024
Meet Katherine Gough
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26 Sep 2024
New human ecology thesis on the Storsjöodjur - a cryptid in the borderland between reality and the imagined
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 do...
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12 Sep 2024
Less water consumption and sustainable wastewater management. - New report shows how cities should develop strategies to tackle the effects of climate change.
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 strateg...
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10 Sep 2024
Resistance to Extractivism-Induced Water Insecurity. Does Gender Have a Role in It?
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.
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24 Apr 2024
In memory of Gunnar Törnqvist
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5 Apr 2024
Climate adaptation becomes less effective as the world warms
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, publis...
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21 Feb 2024
Master's Student won prize in competition
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 KEF...
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13 Feb 2024
Thesis sheds light on how fashion companies' use of greenwashing in marketing Campaigns contributes to unsustainable consumption of clothes
The thesis, entitled Fashioning the Ecological Crisis: Sustainability and Feminism in Fashion Advertising and Communication in Contemporary Sweden, is a critical feminist study tha...
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6 Feb 2024
Coming soon, the KEG Podcast!
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...
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20 Dec 2023
The department's opening hours over Christmas and New Year
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 als...
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31 Aug 2023
Opening Hours Student Office
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.
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31 Aug 2023
PhD defense: Amr Khairy Ahmed
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 No...
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13 Apr 2023
A public lecture with Timothy Mitchell
How to Make Money: Histories of Capitalism from Elsewhere
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16 Feb 2023
1-2 Doctoral studentships in Human Geography
We are happy to announce 1-2 PhD positions in Human Geography at the department.
