PhD seminars at the Department of Economy and Society

13:00-15:00

PhD planning seminar
Title: Riding on innovation – A thesis proposal for a study of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in equestrian sports technology
PhD student: Madeleine Englund
Location: To be announced

13:15-15:00

Half-time PhD seminar
Title: Floods vulnerability and the quest for 'resilience' – a challenge for urban planning and development in Matola, Mozambique.
PhD student: José Neves
Discussant: Nicklas Guldåker, Senior lecturer in Human geography, Lund university
Location: Zoom

10:15:12:00

Public defense, licentiate thesis
Title: Station communities’ as a strategy for sustainable regional development.
A case study of small towns with train stations in the Västra Götaland region, Sweden (prel.)
PhD student: Charlotta Capitao Patrao
Opponent: Lukas Smas, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Human geography, Stockholm university
Location: Conference room, Viktoriagatan 13, fifth floor and on Zoom.

13:15-14:15

PhD planning seminar
Title: Routes of recreational walking
PhD student: Oskar Abrahamsson
Location: To be announced

13:15-15:00

Public defense, doctoral thesis
Title: The impacts of the land tenure reform programme on tenure security and agricultural development in Rwanda: the case of Musanze district, Northern Province (prel.)
PhD student: Emmanuel Myuombanos
Opponent: Professor Anne Jerneck, LUCUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies
Location: B44 and on Zoom

13:15-14:15

PhD planning seminar
Title: Women’s everyday lives in agriculture: challenges to reducing poverty and food insecurity in rural Mozambique: cases from Inhambane Province
PhD student: Tania Fernandes Jeque
Location: To be announced

13:15-15:00

Half-time PhD seminar
Title: Exploring the relationship between urban park design and maintenance - the devil is in the detail.
PhD student: Shelley Kotze
Discussant: Moa Tunström, Senior lecturer in Human Geography, Dept of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University
Location: To be announced

13:15-15:00

Public defense, doctoral thesis
Title: Rural encounters with the city: a study of the gendered livelihood strategies of migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PhD student: Elizabeth Dessie
Opponent: Nicola Ansell, professor in Human Geography, Brunel University, London
Location: B44 and on Zoom.