Staff
Head of department and subject coordinator: Welat Songur
Administrative staff: Martina Lindberg
Researchers, teaching staff and other employees:


Simon Birnbaum
PhD
Senior Lecturer
Main research interests: political philosophy, political ideas and the future of the welfare state, with special emphasis on social citizenship, justice, and sustainability.
Social Sciences
ME615
My research is about surveillance including the relationship between trust and surveillance. I also teach political science at the School of Social Sciences.
Social Sciences
ME618
Postdoctoral researcher in political science
Social Sciences
ME613

Research interests: Competitive victimhood, conflict, peace, reconciliation.
Social Sciences
ME611

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
MA789
Linda Ekström
Senior Lecturer
I am a political scientist with an interest in issues concearning teaching and learning in civics education
Social Sciences
ME614

International relations, specifically the politics of technology and expertise, space policy, and cybersecurity. I lead the project "Russia in Space".
Social Sciences
ME621

PhD student. My research concerns energy politics and the phasing out of nuclear and fossil energy.
Social Sciences
ME616
I am a Senior Lecturer in political science and responsible for Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Science.
Social Sciences
ME612


I am Affiliate Professor of Political Science. One of my areas of research is government communication. Web: https://www.polexmedia.com/external link
Social Sciences
My research is on populist radical right parties in the Nordic region and Europe.
Social Sciences
ME622
Martina Lindberg
Academic Secretary
Swedish politics, political leadership, social media and politics, police education.
Social Sciences
ME439A

I am Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research. My research concerns peacebuilding, including transitional justice, politics of memory, and reconciliation processes.
Social Sciences
ME616
Vasileios Petrogiannis
Doctoral Student
Post-Soviet regime change, stateness, Estonia, Ukraine, European organisations.
Social Sciences
MA719
Researching space politics within the project "Russia In Space"
Social Sciences
ME611

Project Researcher (Professor, PhD) in Political Science. Focus areas: comparative politics, Central and Eastern Europe, political institutions, executive and presidential power
Social Sciences
