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LUCSUS PhD candidate Sara Ullström competed in the national popular science competition, Forskar Grand Prix. We took the opportunity to talk to her about the experience and the importance of communicating your research to an audience outside of the scientific community. Forskar Grand Prix is the biggest national competition in presentation technique where researcher present their research in a com

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-candidate-sara-ullstrom-knows-how-pitch-her-research-4-min-these-are-her-tips - 2025-10-25

LUCSUS Director professor Emily Boyd, has recently been appointed Editor-In-Chief for the journal Global Sustainability. Emily Boyd took over the editorship from the previous Editor-in -Chief, professor Johan Rockström. As the new editor-in-chief, Emily Boyd would like to see a new dynamic phase in Global Sustainability. She thinks that Global Sustainability has the potential to be at the forefron

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-new-editor-chief-global-sustainability - 2025-10-25

Net zero emission pledges by countries and companies are everywhere at the moment. Most of these pledges rely on massive amounts of carbon removal, yet details on how this will transpire remain largely absent. The COP26 agreement suggests that markets will play a central role, but there are significant problems with this approach. Carbon removal, also known as “negative emissions”, is the process

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/we-cant-let-markets-decide-future-removing-carbon-atmosphere - 2025-10-25

The “Staying on the ground” movement initiated in Sweden has gained rising influence internationally, indicating the start of an important shift in not just attitudes but also culture regarding travel behaviors and visions of living well under climate change. A recently published paper by LUCSUS PhD  candidate Sara Ullström, LUCSUS researcher Kimberly Nicholas and political scientist Johannes Stri

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-did-flying-go-luxury-aspiration-contested-norm-sweden - 2025-10-25

Offshore wind power is presented as one of the solutions to solve the energy crisis in southern Sweden. But the issue has been met with a "not in my backyard” attitude, as many municipalities say no to the government's decision. LUCSUS researcher Henner Busch, shares his thoughts on how to involve local communities and create a more just energy transition. Earlier this autumn, the Swedish governme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/conflicts-between-national-climate-targets-and-local-communities-jeopardize-renewable-energy - 2025-10-25

An examination of the travel policy in Malmö municipality, flood management solutions in local neighborhoods, lobbying and regulation in Denmark, and biodiversity policies for universities. These were some of 2018 Knowledge to Action Projects – the course where LUMES students get to apply their knowledge to real world problems. Chad Boda and David O’Byrne, teachers at LUMES, say that for many stud

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/knowledge-action-projects-2018-travel-policies-overfishing-flood-management-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-10-25

LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they gained from the LUMEs programme and what career advice they have for future LUMES g

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2025-10-25

Students tackled overconsumption through setting up a centre for borrowing household items; devised an action plan to ensure that our universities become more sustainable, and explored the potential for art to affect social norms around flying. The Knowledge to Action, K2A, course is all about bringing your theoretical knowledge to bear on real world sustainability problems. Students get to identi

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/2019-knowledge-action-projects - 2025-10-25

The LUMES Alumni Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer (Batch 21) is the winner of the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019. The Centre for European Studies (CFE) annually awards a prize for a bachelor’s or master’s thesis written on a European topic at Lund University. The winner of the  the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019 is LUMES alumni Cristian Pons-Seres

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-wins-best-thesis-award-2019 - 2025-10-25

Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever.  At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge needs to be integrated in all aspects of society in order to facilitate the tran

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2025-10-25

LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. How is your daily life impa

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-10-25

The LUMES elective course, Sustainability and Inner Transformation, examines if personal sustainability can have a bearing on driving change for sustainability. The course is part of a research initative, The Contemplative Sustainable Futures Program, a platform for related research, education and networking activities. Christine Wamsler explains that:- Inner transformation can simply be understoo

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-elective-course-focuses-inner-dimensions-and-transformation-drive-sustainable-change - 2025-10-25

In the LUMES course, political ecology, one of the assignments is to write a blog post on the theme ‘everyday political ecology’. In collaboration with the blog Undisciplined Environments, a mini-series of selected essays are now being published. First out is Lauren Tropeano, with the blog post: There’s more than just dirt beneath the lush lawns Read the blog post "There’s more than just dirt bene

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/blog-post-lumes-student-lauren-tropeano-theres-more-just-dirt-beneath-lush-lawns - 2025-10-25

As part of the Sustainability and Popular culture course in the master programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUMES), students have created a series of videos analysing the representation of sustainability within popular culture. The videos examines issues such as ecofeminism, urban gardening and narratives for a flight free future. The Sustainability and

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/representation-sustainability-within-popular-culture - 2025-10-25

More than 900 students has graduated from the LUMES programme since it started in 1997. We asked some of our current students what they think about the programme, and list the top 10 best things about LUMES. Testimonials from LUMES students (2020) You learn a lot about sustainability, society, human relationships and the environment. You find friends with the same drive and passion towards making

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/top-10-best-things-about-lumes-programme - 2025-10-25

Lucia Di Paola graduated from LUMES in 2019. Today she works as Just Transition Officer. In this interview, she shares what she learnt from the LUMES programme and how the path to her current job looked like. She also gives some advice to current and future LUMES students. What do you do today? Where do you work, and what is your position? I am a Just Transition officer at ICLEI Europe, a network

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-lucia-di-paolas-career-path-become-just-transition-officer - 2025-10-25

LUMES alumni Georgia Verkuylen, graduated from the LUMES programme in 2018. Today, she works as a Reporting Analyst in Australia. In this interview, you can read about her career pathway and what skills and experiences from the LUMES progamme she values the most in her current job. What do you do today? Where do you work, and what is your position? I work at GreenCollar. My position is Reporting A

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-georgia-verkuylens-path-become-reporting-analyst - 2025-10-25

Takehiro Kawahara graduated from the LUMES programme in 2012. He works as an Analyst at BloombergNEF, which offers advisory service based on analysis on global commodity markets and the disruptive technologies driving the transition to a low-carbon economy. It covers energy, transport, commodities, materials and agriculture. Takehiro emphasises that the skills he learnt in the LUMES programme have

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-takehiro-kawaharas-path-graduation-research-analyst-tokyo - 2025-10-25

Last week the new batch of LUMES students had their first field day for the course Earth Systems Science in Lund’s botanical garden. We took the opportunity to talk to three of them about the course and their impressions of the LUMES programme, so far. Earth Systems Science is one of the first courses of the LUMES programme. The course focuses on the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of t

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/field-day-earth-systems-science-course - 2025-10-25

In the autumn, Sara Törnros from Batch 17, returned to the the LUMES programme – this time as a lecturer at the Resilience and Sustainable Development course. We took the opportunity to talk to her about her job as a climate change and resilience advisor at Plan International - and her best memories from the LUMES programme. Tell us more about your job, what do you do as a climate change and resil

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-sara-tornros-path-climate-change-and-resilience-advisor-plan-international - 2025-10-25