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Recipients of the Torsten Hägerstrands Stipends 2015

The Boards of Sydsvenska Geografiska Sällskapet and Torsten Hägerstrands Stiftelse hereby wish to announce the recipients of the Torsten Hägerstrands Stipends 2015. A total of 14 applications were received and subsequently scrutinized by a Working Group within the Boards. The working group then presented a suggestion of recipients to the Boards for their respective decisions.

The recipients of the 2015 stipends are:<?xml:namespace prefix = o />

Karin Lindsjö, Department of Human Geography, Lund University for giving feed-back to the local Community from her earlier field-works and supplementary field-work within the framework of her doctoral project concerning education at primary and secondary levels in Tanzania with a special focus on, so called, "Skipped Generation Households", viz. households that have been severely hit by the AIDS-epidemic. The field-work is carried out in the Iringa Region of Tanzania.

Hele Kiimann, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University for supplementary field-work in Estonia within the framework of her doctoral project: Human Niche Construction on Costal Landscapes of North-West Estonia.

The stipends will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Sydsvenska Geografiska Sällskapet och "Geographers gathering" on May 21 at 1800 hours in Sångsalen, Akademiska Föreningen, Lund. Participation in the meeting is reported to - Franz-Michael [dot] Rundquist [at] keg [dot] lu [dot] se (Franz-Michael[dot]Rundquist[at]keg[dot]lu[dot]se).