Research projects
The Political Science Department's extensive research makes us one of the largest research environments in political science in Sweden and we feel proud of our ability to attract external funding. A large number of research projects are ongoing at the department at any given time. In many cases these can be classified as belonging to one or more of the department's thematic research groups.
Link to active research projects, networks, and dissertations in LU Research Portal
Current research projects, networks, and dissertation projects
(Un-)natural borders: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on the boundaries of European integration - ASG, Pufendorf IAS
Project: Network
Active Learning in Higher Education
1991/10/01 → 2032/06/25
Project: Other
A Divided Digitalized Democracy?
Renström, E., Bäck, H., Bossetta, M., Bruhn, T. & Røed, M.
2023/01/01 → 2025/12/31
Project: Research
All Aboard!? A multi-level analysis of societal security and preparedness in Sweden and Norway
Sjöstedt, R., Bäck, H. & Olsson, L.
2024/01/01 → 2028/12/31
Project: Research
At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present
Svenungsson, J., Goldman, A., Fridlund, P., Cronqvist, M., Stripple, J., Scheuer, B., Norocel, O. C., Pålsson, K., Keim, K., Burnett, A., Hammarlin, M., Dunér, D., Liljefors, M., Björk, M., Schmiedel, H. M., Lagerkvist, A., Gustafsson Chorell, T., Wassén, C., Liepe, L., Hägerland, T., Noll, G., Otter Johansen, T. & Kuhlin, J.
2023/01/01 → 2028/12/31
Project: Research
Att översätta innovation till praktisk handling – organisering och anpassning i utvecklingen av MaaS
Fred, M. & Mukhtar-Landgren, D.
2023/01/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
BECC AG: Social and ecological context of climate change adaptation for biodiversity
Ekroos, J., Sidemo Holm, W., Perrigo, A. L., Droste, N., Olsson, P. A. & Coria, J.
2021/05/01 → …
Project: Research
Behaviors shaping forests - An agent-based approach to land use changes in socio-ecological systems
Ekström, H., Droste, N., Brady, M. V. & Clough, Y.
2022/01/03 → …
Project: Dissertation
Beyond the welfare state: Europeanization of Swedish civil society organizations (EUROCIV)
Meeuwisse, A., Johansson, H., Jacobsson, K., Kristensen, F., Scaramuzzino, R., Lee, J., Nordling, V., Schütze, C., Frank, D., Kalm, S., Stubbergaard, Y., Hedling, E. & Wennerhag, M.
2011/01/01 → …
Project: Research
Bias and methods of AI technology studying political behavior
Fredén, A., Johansson, M., Kisic Merino, P. & Saynova, D.
2020/01/01 → 2026/07/31
Project: Research
BIOECONOMY Graduate Research School
Koca, D., Hatti-Kaul, R., DHertefeldt, T., Akselsson, C., Ness, B., Hansen, T., Mont, O., Hildingsson, R. & Frödin, O.
2017/01/01 → 2025/01/01
Project: Research
Capital-labour relations in a changing climate
2023/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
Clandestine Communications: Old Technologies, New Opportunities
2021/09/01 → …
Project: Research
CATSOS: Crimes Against the Security of Sweden
Khoshnood, A., Petterson, T., Khoshnood, A. & Beckman, O.
2024/01/12 → …
Project: Research
CISR: Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR)
Rydström, H., Turner, S., Hill, A., Banerjee, S., Hjärpe, T., Nicoli Aldini, C., Caretta, M. A., Gregoratti, C., Gustafsson, N., Harnesk, D., Islar, M., Kauko, S., Kim, Y., Linnell, M., Lundqvist, M., Lundberg, T., Mathieu, C., Di Matteo, C., Mattsson, A., Nordbeck, P., Qamar, A. H., Samper, J. A., Solano, P., Wiggill, M. & Zhao, H.
2023/04/27 → …
Project: Research
Defending What is Yet to Come: Towards a Critical Theory of Democratic Defense
Nitzschner, P., Malkopoulou, A. & Bartelson, J.
2020/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
Dissertation
2020/09/01 → 2025/06/01
Project: Dissertation
Dissertation
2021/09/01 → 2025/08/31
Project: Dissertation
Divine Ganges, Profane Development: Sacred Geographies and the Governing of Pollution
Svensson, T., Khan, S., Kinnvall, C. & Jogdand, Y.
2020/01/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
ECO-Syria: ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict-Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation
Dinc, P., Hamza, M., Eklund, L., Nardi, M. A. & Abdi, H.
2023/09/01 → 2024/08/31
Project: Research
Ekologisk kompensation
Lundmark, L., Alkan Olsson, J., Hanson, H., Knaggård, Å. & Smith, H.
2019/03/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
Embedded disposability: A cultural political economy of plastics
Holmberg, K., Stripple, J., Skovgaard, J. & Hasselbalch, J.
MISTRA, Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research
2020/09/01 → 2025/06/01
Project: Dissertation
Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation
Krause, T., Zelli, F., Nardi, M. A., Sjöstedt, B., Ituarte-Lima, C. & Valencia, S.
FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
2023/03/01 → 2027/02/28
Project: Research
Existential Sustainability: Expanding the Discourse on Sustainability
Project: Network
Feminist Activism in the Contemporary Middle East: Transnationalism, performances and repertoires of contention
Abdelmoez, J., Aggestam, K. & El-Husseini Dean, R.
2021/09/01 → 2025/09/01
Project: Dissertation
Financing industrial decarbonisation: Managing risks and uncertainties to promote green investments in energy intensive industry
Andersson, F. N. G., Arvidsson, S., Fischer, T., Moursli, R., Bauer, F., Månberger, A., Nilsson, L. J., Skovgaard, J., Hildingsson, R. & Park, H.
FORMAS, a Swedish research council for sustainable development
2020/12/01 → 2024/11/30
Project: Research
Foreign Policies of European Union Member States
Manners, I., Whitman, R. & Hadfield, A.
2021/01/01 → 2025/01/01
Project: Research
Forest management practices for climate targets and environmental objectives – adaptive strategies based on novel combinations of ecosystem modelling, policy analysis and visualisation
Fors, H., Jönsson, A. M., Stripple, J. & Lagergren, F.
2020/08/17 → …
Project: Research
Gender and Foreign Policy
Aggestam, K. & True, J.
2021/03/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
Gendering Peacemaking in the Middle East
Aggestam, K. & Eitrem Holmgren, L.
2021/03/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
GlyphoSentiment: Glyphosate in social media - a spatio-temporal analysis of twitter controversies among European stakeholders
Droste, N., Dupoux, M., Boke Olén, N., Simaki, V., Abdi, H., Rundlöf, M. & Bossetta, M.
2021/01/01 → …
Project: Research
GreenPole: Green forest policies - a comparative assessment of outcomes and trade-offs across Fenno-Scandinavia
Droste, N., D'Amato, D., Ekström, H., Iliev, B. E., May, W., Thomsen, M., Christiansen, D. M. & Ayonghe, N.
Nordic Forest Research (SNS), FORMAS, a Swedish research council for sustainable development
2021/08/01 → 2025/07/31
Project: Research
Helpful Violence: investigating the gendered relationship between drones and their military users
2022/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
Imperial Capacity: Studying the Impacts of Colonial Bureaucracies on State Development
2024/01/01 → 2027/12/31
Project: Research
Incels and the manosphere. Radicalization into misogynist extremism in Sweden
Bäck, H. & Renström, E.
2023/01/01 → 2025/12/31
Project: Research
Justice and Radical Critique
Strandgaard, J.
2016/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
Land is life
Gabrielsson, S., Boyd, E., Yengoh, G. T. & Åkerman, A.
2019/02/01 → …
Project: Research
LU Land
Project: Network
LHRRH: Lund Human Rights Research Hub
Project: Network
Lund University Agenda 2030 Graduate School
Project: Network
AI Lund: Lund University AI Research
Project: Network
LUCASN: Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network
Project: Network
Making sense of state climate (in)action: An existentialist study of how states imagine global climate change
2023/07/01 → 2026/06/30
Project: Research
Medical Intelligence
2021/12/01 → …
Project: Commissioned research
Mistra BIOPATH
Arvidsson, S., Elliot, V., Smith, H., Gipperth, L., Droste, N., Alkan Olsson, J., Stenseke, M., Loor, M., Generosi, J., Sahlin, U., Börjesson, P., Asgharian, H., Andersson, F. N. G., Islar, M., Somsen, J., Svahn, F., Paananen, M., Appelgren, V., Baeckström, Y., Jonäll, K., Dzielinski, M., Liu, L., Jonsson, S., Lundtofte, F., Magnusson, J., Sterner, T., Antonelli, A., Groom, B., Silvestro, D., Palme, U., Svensson, J., Cao, V., Lindblad, M., Sidemo Holm, W., Coelho, C., Olofsson, E., Fransson, L. & Mao, J. Q.
2022/10/01 → 2026/09/30
Project: Research
MultiForSe: Mångbruk, privat skogsägande och sociala lärande nätverk. Familj skogsägare som gräsrots agenter för alternativa skogsskötselmetoder.
Danley, B., Dressel, S., Glass, J., Droste, N. & Bjärstig, T.
2022/12/01 → 2026/11/30
Project: Research
Narrating Climate Futures
Stripple, J., Nikoleris, A., Tenngart, P., Hildingsson, R., Nielsen, T., Petersén, M., Åhman, M., Ericsson, K., Smith, B., Jönsson, A. M., Rummukainen, M., Skovbjerg Jensen, C., Nicholas, K., Busch, H., Mccormick, K. & Miller, P.
2017/09/01 → …
Project: Research
NATURESCAPES: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient, Nature Positive and Socially Just Communities in Diverse Landscapes
Voytenko Palgan, Y., Mccormick, K., Stripple, J. & Hedlund, K.
2023/12/01 → 2027/11/30
Project: Research
OS EU: Ontological Security in the European Union
2002/01/01 → …
Project: Research
Planetary Political Cinema
2016/09/01 → 2030/09/01
Project: Research
Planetary Politics
2013/08/01 → 2034/06/25
Project: Research
InBorder: Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance
FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
2021/02/23 → 2025/12/31
Project: Research
Plastics in a circular society: Alternative organising beyond resource efficiency
Chertkovskaya, E., Stripple, J., Hasselbalch, J., Deere Birkbeck, C., Gäbken, J., Luciani, D., Auty, L. & Visser, V. N.
FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
2021/12/01 → 2026/11/30
Project: Research
Polarization as a challenge to government formation in parliamentary democracies
2021/01/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
Polarizing pandemics. Identity, emotions, and attitudes toward Covid-19 prevention
Renström, E. & Bäck, H.
2023/01/01 → 2025/12/31
Project: Research
Policy-lab for nature-based solutions in cross-municipal climate adaptation
Dänhardt, J., Alkan Olsson, J., van Praagh, M., Knaggård, Å., Thelander, H. & Poussart, A.
FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
2023/11/01 → 2026/04/30
Project: Research
Political deliberation in welfare state development
2020/01/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
Psychological Defence Research Institute
Pamment, J., Smedberg, M., Falkheimer, J., Hedling, E., Ördén, H. & Nothhaft, H.
2022/09/01 → 2027/08/31
Project: Research
Pufendorf Theme: Coastal Perspectives
Hallin, C., Knaggård, Å., Alexanderson, H., Zander, U., Persson, A., Sahlin, U., Wingren, C. & Thorén, H.
2023/09/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
DigRep: Representation in the digital era: Democratic consequences of changing engagement in the Swedish disability movement
Bahner, J., Melander, S. & Krantz, O.
Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (Forte)
2022/07/01 → 2025/06/30
Project: Research
Research School on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
Project: Network
ReClAd: Responsibility for Climate Adaptation Across Political Levels, Sectors and Public-Private Boundaries
Knaggård, Å., Persson, E., Eriksson, K. & Brolin, L.
FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
2022/12/01 → 2026/11/30
Project: Research
STEPS Phase 2: STEPS – Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways, Phase 2
Hatti-Kaul, R., Egan, N., Generosi, J., Hulteberg, C., Bauer, F., Zhang, B., Englund Örn, O., Sayed Ali Sayed, M., Hagman, A., Leiva Eriksson, N., Pyo, S., Madsen, S., Palm, E., Nilsson, L. J., Ericsson, K., Stripple, J., Holmberg, K., Liu, J., Molina-Besch, K., Mankar, S., Warlin, N., Nguyen, T., Nordin, A., Dash, S., Jannasch, P., Karlsson, H., Abdelaziz, O., Garcia Gonzalez, N., Peric, S., Valsange, N. & Rehnberg, N.
MISTRA, Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research
2020/09/01 → 2024/08/31
Project: Research
SWEMENA: SWEMENA: Swedish Middle East and North Africa Network
Project: Network
Taxing for the welfare state: public finances and progressivity in the rise of social spending (1910-1970)
Torregrosa Hetland, S. & Domingo, O. S.
2018/07/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
TBC; part of wider FORMAS-funded collaboration 'Forest Visions: envisioning forest management practices for a fossil free society in the face of goal conflicts and uncertainties’
2020/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
ECONPARTY: The Consequences of Economic Growth and Decline on Party Behavior
2021/11/01 → 2024/09/30
Project: Research
The consequences of securitization: A comparative study of Sweden's and Denmarks threat construction of the A(H1N1) and Covid-19 epidemics
FORMAS, a Swedish research council for sustainable development
2021/01/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
The investment citizenship industry: exploring power and legitimacy in global governance
2023/01/01 → 2025/08/31
Project: Research
The investment citizenship industry: exploring power and legitimacy in global governance
2023/01/01 → 2025/12/31
Project: Research
MECW 2.0: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) 2.0
Aggestam, K., Berndtsson, R., Abdelhady, D., Abdelmoez, J., Abdi, H., Barhoum, R., Brogaard, S., Dinc, P., Eitrem Holmgren, L., Eklund, L., El-Husseini Dean, R., Fogelin, H., Gren, N., Hamza, M., Hashemi, H., Janson, T., Khodaei, B., Kärrholm, M., Luczak, M., Lundgren, S., Mansourian, A., Mehrabov, I., Naghibi, A., Nardi, M. A., Pericoli, A., Pilesjö, P., Rennick, S. A., Scharbrodt, O., Shanneik, Y., Småberg, M., Storie, L., Strömbom, L., Svenungsson, J., Taha, H., Thompson, D., Törnquist-Plewa, B., Verre, F., Zalfou, R., Zhao, P., Ajjoub, O., Almahfali, M., Avery, H., Cristiano, F., Foroughanfar, L., Hosseini, H., Jamali, S., Malmström, M. & Sofos, S.
2021/01/01 → …
Project: Research
The politics of state-building: Studying investments in state capacity through legislative debates
Goenaga, A. & Domingo, O. S.
2022/01/01 → 2025/12/31
Project: Research
The State as an Agent of Cosmopolitanism
Liebsch, J., Kalm, S. & Bexell, M.
2018/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
The State as the Enemy - Citizens Explaining Post-Soviet Corruption
2012/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
The tribunalization of violence, extractivism, and civilian victimization during conflicts
2023/09/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
ForPol: Transdisciplinary co-production in forest policy research
D'Amato, D., Droste, N., Ekström, H., Iliev, B. E., May, W. & Thomsen, M.
2022/01/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
Transform2030 : Transformative partnerships for sustainable development. Assessing synergies, effectiveness, and legitimacy of UN multistakeholder partnerships for the 2030 Agenda
Bexell, M., Bäckstrand, K., Jönsson, K., Jensen, M. S., Pattberg, P., Widerberg, O. & Koliev, F.
2020/12/21 → 2024/11/30
Project: Research
Troubling Testimonies. Knowledge production through Yazidi women’s war narratives
2021/01/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
Urban Arena
Project: Network
VW: Viral wars: Understanding how videos matter in contemporary conflicts
Ølgaard, D. M.
2016/08/31 → …
Project: Research
Vi vill bli bäst på att vara kommun - evidensbaserade beredningsprocesser i Simrishamn
Fred, M., Mukhtar-Landgren, D. & Knaggård, Å.
2024/01/01 → 2025/02/28
Project: Research
Wildfire in Sweden: Post-fire Forest Management - Societal Perceptions, Acceptability, and Ecosystem Recovery
Droste, N., Kljun, N., Andresen, L., Danley, B., Santín, C., Doerr, S. H., Kelly, J. & Fridén, A.
2023/02/01 → …
Project: Research