Linn Axelsson at the Department of Human Geography, together with Charlotta Hedberg at Umeå University, has been granted research funding of SEK 5.1 million from the Swedish Research Council for research on the workers who build the industries in the 'New Green North´.
Dominic Power, Professor of Human Geography at Stockholm University, together with Tina Mathisen, Oslo Metropolitan University and Johan Jansson, Uppsala University, have written an article published in the Journal of Rural Studies.
Every year, the Department of Human Geography organises the Urban and Regional Planning Day, which gives the students of the Bachelor's Programme in Urban and Regional Planning a better picture of their future profession by having alumni talk about their experiences from education and work.