No photo of Christian Lund
  • Source: Scopus
20122024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Short presentation

I am Chair of Global Develoment and professor of Development, Resource Management, and Governance. I have a PhD in International Development Studies

 

Primary fields of research

My research focuses local politics and the dynamics of property in developing societies. I investigate how socio-legal conflicts over citizenship and land feed into state formation processes. Field experience: Niger, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Laos and Indonesia. I directed the ProCit research programme from 2012-16, and I am currently directing the ERC Advanced Grant programme Rule and Rupture (2016-20, www.ruleandrupture.dk). I have supervised 37 PhD students and 8 post docs since 2000

Current research

See above

Teaching

I am course responsible for the MSc course Global Politics. In addition, I contribute to Practicing Interdisciplinarity and Critical Development Studies.

Possible conflicts of interest

Since 2018, I have been on the board of the Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS. I receive a small honorarium.

 

CV

Link to CV

Main employments:

Professor in Development, Resource Management, and Governance, University of Copenhagen (Chair of GlobaDevelopment Section) (since 2012)

Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (2004-12)

Director of the Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University (2003-11)

Associate Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1999-2004)

Research Fellow, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1995-99)

Graduate Student, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1992-95)

Manager of village water supply section, Projet Danois, Niger (1990-92)

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Geography, Roskilde University (1990)

Consultant with Danagro Adviser (Carl Bro Group) (1989)

 

Visiting Professor, Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden (Oct-Nov 2014)

Visiting Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley (2008-09)

Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics, Department of Economic History (March 2005)

Visiting Senior Researcher, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen (2002)

Visiting Lecturer at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille (Mar-Apr 2001)

 

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or