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By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 18 January 2024 Voinha, who was approaching the age of one hundred, interviewed by her grandchild Iury Salustiano Trojaborg. Image from a videotaped interview. Photo: Ulrik Trojaborg Nair Ferreira Barbosa da Costa, kindly called Voinha in the family, was married off at 14. She gave birth to thirteen children, had to le
By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 February 2024 Markus Gunneflo, the new coordinator of the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. Photo: Kennet Rouna Markus Gunneflo has always been interested in interdisciplinarity, and working with PhD students has been the most enjoyable part of his professional life. A perfect combination for the new coordinator of the Ag
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-coordinator-passion-interdisciplinarity-markus-gunneflo - 2025-07-09
By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 February 2024 Markus Gunneflo är sedan årsskiftet koordinator för forskarskolan Agenda 2030. Foto: Kenneth Rouna. Markus Gunneflo har alltid intresserat sig för tvärvetenskap och att få arbeta med doktorander har varit det roligaste i hans yrkesliv. En perfekt kombination för uppdraget som forskarskolan Agenda 2030:s
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/markus-gunneflo-ny-koordinator-med-passion-tvarvetenskapen - 2025-07-09
Published 21 February 2024 Photo: We Animals Media Popular media discourses and heated debates on possible transitions to plant-based food systems can sometimes give the impression that veganism is a newfangled trend or that advocacy for animals is an intrinsically Western or even ‘white’ social phenomenon. However, such portrayals neglect how advocacy for Earth Others can be traced way back in th
Published 29 April 2024 Maria Takman and Christie Nicoson. Photo: Hilde Skar Olsen and Sara Håkansson Two new PhDs! Congratulations to the Graduate School's two new doctors, Maria Takman and Christie Nicoson. On 26 April, they successfully defended their doctoral theses at Lund University. Both scholars have made significant contributions in their respective fields. Maria Takman has written "From
By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 10 June 2024 Tanya Andersson Nystedt has successfully defended her thesis on migrants' vulnerability to sexual violence. We are proud to announce that the Agenda 2030 Graduate School PhD student, Tanya Andersson Nystedt, successfully defended her thesis on 5 June and now has her PhD! Tanya has been an integral part of
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/thesis-successfully-defended-tanya-andersson-nystedt - 2025-07-09
By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 12 June 2024 Eating according to new dietary recommendations reduces premature deaths and greenhouse gas emissions. Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff compared seven dietary indices to find a good way to measure how we eat in relation to the recommendations. The Planetary Health Diet. That's the diet that will k
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/stubbendorffs-index-paves-way-sustainable-healthy-diets - 2025-07-09
Published 18 June 2024 As the climate crisis deepens, discussions on sustainability are evolving to include the existential aspects of human life. In the autumn of 2023, Lund University's Agenda 2030 Graduate School introduced a PhD course on existential sustainability. The course ended with a student conference, where some of the papers are now being shared with a wider audience. Sustainability h
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/integrating-existential-aspects-sustainability - 2025-07-09
By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 19 September 2024 'We can't build cities that are fundamentally unsustainable and expect individual behaviour change to solve the problems. Urban development must contribute to norm change by actively redistributing resources,' says Alva Zalar in her thesis. Can a new neighbourhood be a spearhead for sustainability if
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-thesis-sheds-light-hyllies-sustainable-urban-development - 2025-07-09
By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 26 September 2024 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has experimented with podcast interviews, created four performance works and several video articles. Photo: Sara Håkansson PhD student Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir not only has a background as a director, writer, theologian, life coach and actor. When she started her PhD in Lund
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/how-little-does-it-take-create-artistic-experience - 2025-07-09
By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 17 October 2024 Stricter environmental requirements and alternative sources of income for the population are needed to stop deforestation in the Amazon, Jesica López's thesis shows. Photo: Sara Håkansson In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threat
Published 19 December 2024 Juan Ocampo's research examines how complementary currencies are implemented in communities, drawing on observations from a collaboration in Kenya. Photo: Sara Håkansson What does it take to implement a complementary currency in a community, and how does it reshape social, technical, and economic dynamics? Juan Ocampo, a PhD graduate from Lund University’s School of Econ
Published 8 January 2025 October 25, 2023HAIDI participated in the CASE dayCASE (Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments) is a research centre at Lund University that works to develop knowledge on ageing and health. Helena Sandberg and Fredrika Thelandersson participated in their annual popular scientific conference to talk about the ongoing research within HAIDI.October 11, 2023HAIDI partic
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-activities-2022-2023 - 2025-07-09
Published 15 January 2025 September 19–20, 2024HAIDI participated in the Socio-gerontechnology Network Meeting in ViennaThe Finnish team member Hanna Varjakoski participated in the annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network, which was held in Vienna, Austria. The two-day meeting titled as "Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World" brought together various scholars from social scienc
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-activities-2024 - 2025-07-09
Published 31 January 2025 Lund University is creating a national and international platform for interdisciplinary research in strategic communication and defence. Three researchers at the Department of Communication lead the new research environment. The research environment Communication, Defense Willingness and Democratic Resilience is located at Campus Helsingborg with funding of SEK 3 million
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/research-initiative-explores-defence-willingness-and-democratic-resilience - 2025-07-09
Published 29 January 2025 On Friday, January 24, Isabelle Karlsson defended her thesis titled "Making foreign policy matter: A discursive analysis of the strategic communication of Sweden's feminist foreign policy", which shows the complexity of strategic communication in an international context. Positive public opinion is important for states to realise foreign policy objectives and ambitions. T
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/isabelle-karlsson-successfully-defends-her-doctoral-thesis - 2025-07-09
Published 25 February 2025 Image: Michael Jeske/Pixabay We are excited to share three new research papers from the Healthy Ageing in a Digital World project, exploring key challenges and opportunities in digital health for older individuals. Barriers to Digital Health Services for Individuals Aged 75+This study examines the challenges older adults face when using digital health services in Finland
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-papers-healthy-ageing-digital-world - 2025-07-09
Published 3 March 2025 HAIDI Research Activities February 20–21, 2025. The Finnish team member, Hanna Varjakoski, participated in the Ageing in the Digital Era: An Interdisciplinary Debate on ICTs and Social Inclusion for Older Adults conference in Milan, Italy. The two-day conference was organized by an interdisciplinary research group from the ACTIVE-IT research project investigating population
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/haidi-research-findings-presented-international-conference-milan - 2025-07-09
Published 6 March 2025 This year, Media and Communication Studies instituted an award for exceptional master's theses in the subject. The papers given the Peter Dahlgren Excellent Dissertation Award had been publicly defended and received the highest grade."We instituted this prize to celebrate the hard work our international master programme students put into their theses every year and the amazi
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/first-recipients-peter-dahlgren-excellent-dissertation-award - 2025-07-09
Published 11 March 2025 On Friday, February 28, Monica Porzionato defended her thesis "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Strategic communication studies usually consider emotions as psychological effects of communication or as an influence on people's understanding of an issue. In the first case, emotions like joy or de
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/successful-defence-dr-monica-porzionato - 2025-07-09
