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European Union research group

Understanding European Union multilevel politics from the local to the state, supranational, and planetary levels

On this page, the European Union research group (EURG) is presented, including the conveners, researchers in the group, selected publications, and related education.

We have restarted the European Union research group!

European politics is more important than ever. Therefore, we are excited to let you know we have restarted European Union research group this semester. Our aim is to provide a bottom-up research group, where your interests and needs are addressed. We focus both on the EU and European politics more broadly, and we strongly encourage everybody disregarding substantive or methodological focus to join! 

About the group

The European Union research group brings together researchers on the social, economic, ecological, conflict, political and institutional dimensions of the EU and membership of the EU. The group includes researchers on political theory, public administration, comparative politics, international relations, international political economy, political psychology, and gender politics.

The research group integrates research, teaching, and public engagement to better understand the EU and membership of the EU through its impact in local, regional, state, international, and planetary politics. Its activities include shared research events, projects, and publications, as well as wider public engagement to improve the understanding of the EU in Sweden and the research profession.

If you would like to join the group's mailing list, contact the conveners listed below.

Malena Rosén Sundström
E-post: malena [dot] rosen_sundstrom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (malena[dot]rosen_sundstrom[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

Julie Hassing Nielsen
E-post: julie [dot] hassing_nielsen [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (julie[dot]hassing_nielsen[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

See the members' personal pages by clicking on each name under the heading 'Researchers in the group' or visit Department of Political Science - Research output - Lund University

Selected publications

  • Rikard Bengtsson, Ian Manners, Hans-Åke Persson, Linda Gröning and Ola Zetterquist, Det europeiska projektet: politik och juridik - historia och framtid (Liber, 2013).
  • Kennet Lynggaard, Ian Manners and Karl Löfgren (eds.) Research Methods in European Union Studies (Palgrave, 2015).
  • Ian Manners and Richard Whitman (eds.) ‘Another Theory is Possible: Dissident Voices in Theorising Europe’, Special Issue of Journal of Common Market Studies, 2016, 54(1).
  • Rikard Bengtsson and Malena Rosén Sundström, The EU and the Emerging Global Order (Lund Political Studies, 2018).
  • Maria Strömvik and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren (red.) "Kommunen i EU", särskild utgåva av Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018, 120(5).
  • Julie Hassing Nielsen and Tereza Capelos (eds.) ‘The Political Psychology of European Integration: Brexit and Beyond’, Special Issue of Political Psychology, 2018, 39(6).

To get to know the group, we have two meetings scheduled for this semester. 

 20 March: 12-13: We meet at talk about interest, needs, ideas etc. 

Venue: Large conference room

 24 April: 12-15: Presentation of research 

Venue: 230 Eden 

For the second meeting, everybody is encouraged to present their research and will get feedback.  All stages of research are warmly welcomed, and we encourage particularly junior researchers (PhDs and Postdocs) to join.