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Highlights from LUCSUS Annual Report 2024 LUCSUS Annual Report 2024 (PDF) Words from the DirectorReflecting on my first year as LUCSUS Director, we must first acknowledge the urgent societal and environmental challenges and conflicts confronting us. Academia faces increasing political pressure to be more societally relevant and impactful, while societal trust in higher education institutions conti
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/about-lucsus/annual-report-2024 - 2025-10-05
LUMES student from Germany What is your background?I hold a bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Design Management and gained professional experience in the cosmetics industry. Before starting LUMES, I worked as a project manager in research & development, where I had the opportunity to contribute to a corporate sustainability strategy.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?The interdisciplinary natur
Ida Hartwig Abhishek Reddy Kandadi Mila Danklefsen Hamidakhanim Huseynova Sophie Peck Laura Ciamei
LUMES student from Azerbaijan What is your background?I am a master's student specialising in “Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science” at Lund University, where I am deeply engaged in exploring innovative solutions for a more sustainable future.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?With an academic background in Geography from my bachelor's studies, I’ve always been fascinated by the id
LUMES student from India What is your background?I have a background in textile studies and technology and then did a year of business studies with sustainability and that’s how i ended up in the LUMES programme in Sweden. Why did you choose the LUMES programme?I loved researching on sustainability and various aspects of it and I kept working on it. I bumped into the LUMES master programme due to
LUMES student from Poland What is your background?I have a bachelor’s degree in Oceanography, where I focused on environmental chemistry. My thesis explored the presence of organic pollutants in polar organisms. After graduating, I took an unexpected but exciting step into public relations, where I spent nearly three years working on national environmental campaigns in Poland. This gave me the cha
LUMES student from Germany What is your background?I have a background in Global Studies, a bachelor I did at Maastricht University.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?I chose LUMES because I was looking for an interdisciplinary master's degree in sustainability and thought that this programme covered many interesting topics such as Earth System Sciences, Geography of Sustainability and Social
LUMES student from Italy/Philippines What is your background?I’m Italian-Filipina and grew up in Hong Kong. I hold a BA in Media and Information from the University of Amsterdam, and shortly after graduating moved to Copenhagen to pursue my studies at LUMES.Why did you choose the LUMES programme?My international upbringing meant I was exposed to different perspectives on the same issues. I got to
27 October 2025 10:00 to 12:00 | Seminar The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, schemes proliferate for muscular adaptation or for new technologies to turn the heat down at a later date by removing carbon dioxide from the air or blocking su
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/book-launch-long-heat-climate-politics-when-its-too-late - 2025-10-05
13 April 2026 08:00 to 18 April 2026 17:00 | Other Save the date! Sustainability Week will be held for the 10th time on 13-18 April – everyone is welcome! Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and Lund Municipality invite people to a week of activities focusing on sustainability. A wide range of topics are discussed during the week, and everyone is welcome.Information about
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/sustainability-week-2026 - 2025-10-05
9 October 2025 10:00 to 12:00 | Seminar PhD candidates at LUCSUS hold three seminars during their education - a start-up seminar, a mid-seminar, and a final seminar. Participation in seminars is essential for doctoral students to reach learning outcomes fully. The seminars are always in English. Stefan Schüller is a doctoral student at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-seminar-stefan-schullers-first-year-seminar - 2025-10-05
23 October 2025 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Ana Maria VargasClimate adaptation is often framed as urgent and inevitable — yet in many communities, especially those living in poverty, it is met with quiet defiance, legal challenges, or outright sabotage. This seminar explores how resistance emerges
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/when-adaptation-meets-resistance-how-shape-climate-policy-below - 2025-10-05
13 October 2025 13:00 to 14:30 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Genevieve GuentherFossil fascism is rising in the United States. To build a permission structure for its actions, the Trump regime is suppressing science, taking control of the news media, and silencing communities harmed by extreme weather. Yet at the sa
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/language-climate-politics - 2025-10-05
13 October 2025 15:00 to 17:00 | Seminar PhD candidates at LUCSUS hold three seminars during their education: a start-up seminar, a mid-seminar, and a final seminar. Participation in seminars is essential for doctoral students to reach learning outcomes fully. The seminars are always in English. Bernard Ekumah's doctoral research focuses on examining the emergence and growth of smallholder farmers
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-seminar-bernard-ekumahs-final-seminar - 2025-10-05
9 December 2025 08:30 to 17:00 | Conference Welcome to the Lund University's 5th research conference on sustainable development, this year in collaboration with University of Cambridge, UK. Link to conference and registration: Knowledge for Sustainable Development 2025 | Sustainability ForumThe registration deadline is 27th of November. The IPCC is clear: human-driven climate change is already hav
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/knowledge-sustainable-development-2025-breaking-barriers-climate-solutions - 2025-10-05
24 October 2025 10:00 | Thesis defence Michaelin Sibanda har författat en avhandling med titeln: Sowing Seeds of Change: Feminist collective action for agroecological transformation in ZimbabweFakultetsopponent: Senior researcher Floriane Clement, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)Mer information om avhandlingen finns i Lunds universitets forskningsportal Abou
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/disputation-i-hallbarhetsvetenskap-michaelin-sibanda - 2025-10-05
24 October 2025 10:00 | Thesis defence Michaelin Sibanda has written a thesis entitled: Sowing Seeds of Change: Feminist collective action for agroecological transformation in ZimbabweExternal reviewer: Senior researcher Floriane Clement, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)More information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal Ab
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-defence-sustainability-science-michaelin-sibanda - 2025-10-05
16 October 2025 10:00 to 11:00 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Frederik Andersen TjalveIn this seminar, Frederik Andersen Tjalve discusses the entanglements between campesino and Chiquitano communities and extractivist-fueled environmental devastation in the rural landscapes of La Chiquitanía. He begins by relating t
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/ghost-within-forest-campesino-settlers-and-environmental-ruination-la-chiquitania - 2025-10-05
Full project titleFlood Resilience in Slums: Community-Responsive Adaptation in Kibera, Nairobi. Funding organisationThe research is funded under the research programme “Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental changes”, which is is jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Sida and Formas. Project timeline2016–2019. Project leaderAt LUCSUS, the pr
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/inclusive-resilience-building-floods-informal-settlements - 2025-10-05
Climate Adaptation, Risk Reduction and Empowerment Funding organisationsLund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID)The Swedish Research Council FormasSwedish Environmental Protection AgencyTimelineSince 2015ParticipantsChad BodaChristine WamslerDavid O’Byrne,Ebba BrinkStephen WoronieckiDescriptionCoastal cities are increasingly e
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/sustainable-coastal-planning-and-management - 2025-10-05
