Our colleague Vincenza Ferrara has received the award for outstanding scientific work by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for her doctoral thesis "Historical olive agroecosystem of Sicily". Grattis!
www.vitterhetsakademien.se/priser/ovrig...
Nu söker vi en GIS-assistent på heltid! In och sök!
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Vi söker en forskningsassistent i samhällsplanering/kulturgeografi inom ett europeisk projekt. Arbetet omfattar intervjuer, observationer samt bakgrundsresearch om kulturinstitutioners betydelse. @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
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More funding news! The Swedish Research Council funded research into societal preparedness and security for the project "Navigating the Shifting Scales of Food Preparedness: Societal and Farmer Resistance to Crises". PI Anders Wästfelt with Qian Zhang Oscar Jacobsson Vincenza Ferrara. Congrats!
Funding news! The Swedish Research Council has funded the project "Embedded lives: Contextual effects on life course trajectories" within the national programme on segregation. PI: @bomalmberg.bsky.social with Samaneh Khaef @jutakaw.bsky.social and Linn Axelsson, 2026-2029. Congratulations!
Congratulations to our colleagues Eva Andersson (PI), Ida Borg and Juta Kawalerowicz who received funding from Forte for a 3-year project on "How neighbourhood, school and crime redirect the individual’s life course". Grattis! @evaandersson.bsky.social @idaborg.bsky.social @jutakaw.bsky.social
Some of our colleagues attended the Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association in Prague, Czech Republic, July 14-18.
www.memorystudiesassociation.org/conference-p...
Early July, seven colleagues attended the European Network for Housing Research conference in Paris: Nickella Jose @anatra.bsky.social @idaborg.bsky.social Marianne Abramsson @jutakaw.bsky.social @evaandersson.bsky.social and @bomalmberg.bsky.social
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A group of colleagues were at the European Conference on African Studies in Prague this week. @flofloflorian.bsky.social
Ilda Lourenco, Lena Fält, Jack Odeo and Fernanda Oliveira de Almeida participated. www.ecasconference.org/2025/
Congratulations to Jennifer Clapp @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social who has been awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren guest professorship for 2027 at Human Geography, Stockholm University @humangeosthlm.bsky.social www.vr.se/soka-finansi...
Congratulations to our colleagues Onyanta Adama (PI), Ilda Lindell and Lena Fält who received funding from Formas for the project "Towards an inclusive circular economy: the contribution of informal workers in urban Africa”!
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We have a few colleagues in Washington D.C. at the #PAA2025 this week presenting fresh research in the field of population geography
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The 2025 VEGA symposium will be held on the theme "Think we must: Against the denial of worlds and their destruction". Organized by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, April 24, Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm
(for english programme scroll down)
ssag.se/vegadagen/
Please take part in this survey we co-organize, if you are a planner in the Baltic Sea Region and if you are interested in knowledge exchange and cross-cooperation! (LinkedIn)
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In his talk, Professor Stroud will introduce his work on multilingualism, linguistic landscapes and linguistic citizenship as well as explore the analytical and methodological potentials of the concept of shoals for conducting research in culturally diverse landscapes.
Location: our seminar room
On January 21 at 13 hrs, prof Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University) will present a talk titled "Navigating the Shoals (Borderlands): Between Fixity and Fluidity in Semiotic/Linguistic Landscape Research".
(see more below)
We have a postdoc position for 2-3 years in the project "Hyping agriculture and transit in 15-minute Cities", led by professor Anders Wästfelt:
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Our human geography colleagues at Örebro University are looking for a temporary researcher (70% for a year)
www.oru.se/jobba-hos-os...
We enjoyed a delicious julbord (Christmas food buffet) at the beautiful #villagodthem with all colleagues. God jul!
Join our colleague Fernanda Oliveira De Almeida for an exciting evening organized by the NGO “The Latin American Groups”, on the struggle of smallholder women in Brazil
For more information (in Swedish) and registration: www.latinamerikagrupperna.se/2024/11/aw-k...
We have a new professor in the department! Stockholm University has just decided to appoint Lowe Börjeson as professor in Geography, especially Human Geography. Congratulations to Lowe and the department! Read more about Lowe here: www.su.se/english/prof...
Join us! A live stream on Youtube about Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning at our department, going on now! Every episode will be published on Kulturgeografens YouTube-channel when the live broad cast is done. In Swedish
www.youtube.com/@humangeoSU
Six researchers from the @humangeosthlm.bsky.social are presenting their recent research on housing at the #ENHR2024 in Delft
We had a very pleasant two day department conference listening to new research projects and discussing issues on teaching and communication #skåvsjöholm #stockholmuniversity
More funding! The cooperation project ”A Planners’ Forum for the Baltic Sea Region” has been funded by Svenska institutet. Peter Schmitt will work together with VASAB Secretariat, Nordregio, Estonian Association of Spatial Planners and the German Academy for Territorial Development. Hurra!
The project "Sustainable Transitions. Action Research and Training in Urban Perspective (STARTUP)" just received EU Horizon-funding. The project will be coordinated by Sapienza University of Rome and participants from our department are Thomas Borén, Peter Schmitt and Dominic Power. Congratulations!
A group of 4 researchers from the population geography research group are representing the department at the European Population Conference in Edinburgh this week
We enjoyed a summery lunch and a guide through the botanical gardens at #bergianskaträdgården and we are almost ready for summer! @stockholmsuniversitet
Our PhD student Jack Odeo's paper on algorithmic suturing related to urban networks in Nairobi was just recognized as highly commended article for 2023 in the journal IJURR www.ijurr.org/article/algo...
