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The participants in the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice have started their independent Work in the Field projects this Spring. The eight participants have partnered up with performing arts venues and will conduct artistic investigations, involving different communities and organizations in Malmö, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Prague, and the small island of Møn. They will be sharing their researc

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/work-field-students-ma-performing-arts-critical-practice - 2026-07-11

Pernilla August has been appointed the new honorary doctor for 2024 at Lund University's Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. The honorary title will be awarded to her during a ceremony taking place on Friday, May 31 in Lund.On Friday, May 31, Pernilla August will participate in the ceremony in Lund to receive her honorary doctorate from Lund university. The doctoral promotion is the largest acade

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/pernilla-august-appointed-honorary-doctor-may-31 - 2026-07-11

Since 2020 Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir has been a PhD student at the Malmö Theatre Academy and is now defending her dissertation project: “How Little Is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters.” Part of her PhD defence is the exposition at IAC during the Malmö Gallery Weekend (26 September to 3 October 2024).In her PhD project Steinunn has been exploring sustainable

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/how-little-enough-meet-steinunn-knuts-onnudottir-get-possible-answers - 2026-07-11

Theatre Academy PhD student Charlotte Østergaard participates in Stockholm University of the Arts' international artistic conference Alliances and Commonalities, 17-19 October, 2024 together with former PhD student Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir, and the conference Hurricanes and Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic research, Umeå University 4-6 December 2024. Charlotte Østergaard and Marie Ledendal, fro

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/malmo-theatre-academy-phd-student-charlotte-ostergaard-participates-conferences-her-research-project - 2026-07-11

Large-scale installation with projection on the façade of the public library of two of the largest Buddha statues that were destroyed by the Taliban; a performative celebration of solidarity and remembrance. In March 2001, the Taliban blew up two of the largest Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley. In 2013, cultural practitioners projected the statues onto the empty mountain wall as an a

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-students-malmo-theatre-academy-part-malmos-forbidden-culture-week - 2026-07-11

Malmö Theatre Academy's MA in Performing Arts as Critical Practice is organizing the Intersectional Performance Pedagogies symposium, 4-8 November 2024. Part of the symposium is the open workshop Working with f(r)ictions – towards decolonial and speculative practices, with Sonya Lindfors Cameroonian.Lindfors Cameroonian is a Finnish choreographer and the artistic director of UrbanApa. The open wor

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/open-workshop-working-frictions-towards-decolonial-and-speculative-practices - 2026-07-11

The Nordic First St. John's Lodge Jubilee Foundation was established in 1867 with the purpose of supporting promising young people in their education in science, arts or crafts.This year, the scholarship has been awarded to Monirah Hashemi, Maryam Hashempour and Zsófia Rebeka Kozma. All three are students in our artistic master's program in performing arts as critical practice. Warm congratulation

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/masters-students-awarded-2024-jubilee-fund-scholarship - 2026-07-11

Sophia New is the new lecturer and tutor at the MA program Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. Previous to her role here, Sophia has been the course Leader for MA programmes at Wimbledon College of the Arts, UAL. We took the opportunity to ask Sophia New a few questions to get to know her better.  Hi Sophia!  Please tell us how you found your calling in the theatre, and

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/get-know-sophia-new-new-lecturer-ma-program - 2026-07-11

The Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, has been conferred with an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Fineand Performing Arts at Lund University. Jon Fosse has received great international recognition for his works. His plays have been translated into over 40 languages and are regularly performed on stages around the world – in over 8

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/jon-fosse-receives-honorary-doctorate-faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-lund-university - 2026-07-11

For three weeks in November the students of the MA Performing Arts as Critcal Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy have been experimenting in the studios as prepara:on for their final projects in Spring 2025. On 5th and 6th December, they will be sharing some of the outcomes of these experiments and open up their processes. Below you’ll find the detailed schedule. The time slots include a short conve

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/ma-work-progress-showings - 2026-07-11

The income and education levels of a child’s environment determine their relationship to nature, not whether they live in a city or the countryside. This is the finding of a new study conducted by researchers and BECC-members at Lund University, Sweden. The results run counter to the assumption that growing up in the countryside automatically increases our connection to nature, and yet the study a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/socioeconomic-circumstances-shape-childrens-connection-nature-more-where-they-live - 2026-07-11

CEC director Henrik Smith, is one of the researchers behind a debate article in Dagens Nyheter on September 8. The researchers are arguing that there is a unique possibility to use the areas that was damaged in the fire to create a new protected forest area. "The forest fire in Västmanland had disastrous consequences in human terms. But the fire opens at the same time up the possibility to create

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-coordinator-henrik-smith-about-forest-fire-area-dn-debatt - 2026-07-11

Øystein Opedal was one of 494 European researchers to receive an ERC Starting Grant for his project “POLLCLIM: Plant adaptation in a changing pollination climate“. As Øystein is a member of BECC, we were curious to know a little bit more about his grant. The ERC Starting Grant is intended for early-career researchers and the only selection criterion is scientific excellence. After undergoing peer

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/oystein-opedal-receiving-erc-grant - 2026-07-11

Hydrogen is expected to play an important role in the transition to a climate-neutral society. Although hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas with a direct climate impact, there are large knowledge gaps about its indirect impacts on the climate and environment. The Horizon Europe-funded research project HYway aims to fill these gaps. We spoke to David Wårlind from Lund University who is leading one of

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-project-fills-knowledge-gaps-climate-impact-hydrogen-emissions - 2026-07-11

Long-term effective methods are needed to curb the negative effects of coastal erosion. Within the LIFE Coast Adapt project, researchers from Lund University, together with officials from Region Skåne and several coastal municipalities in Skåne, have tested various nature-based methods to contribute to a practice in the field. The project has now come to an end with promising results. In the LIFE

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/collaboration-led-methods-can-protect-our-coastal-environments-erosion - 2026-07-11

Read the 2014 self evaluation of BECC. Some of the headlines of the report are: research output, strategic value for the society and the business sector and research and education integration. The BECC Self Evaluation is one step of the total evaluation of the strategic research environments. Before summer the final BECC self-evaluation was sent in, answering 20 questions about our performance dur

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/curious-about-how-becc-doing - 2026-07-11

To create a functional urban environment for people, the environment and biodiversity, cities need to make careful considerations. Urban densification can be positive, for example in terms of reducing car traffic and providing better services to more people. At the same time, it can be at the expense of green spaces and human health. Johanna Alkan Olsson is a senior lecturer at CEC and has been re

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/five-challenges-and-tips-creating-functional-urban-environment-when-densifying-cities - 2026-07-11

Summer may be extending longer into the season, but we still have changed the name of our annual meetings in September to Autumn meetings. And this year autumn showed itself in full effect when ClimBEco students arrived by train from the north and the south into Helsingborg on 25-27 September and getting ready for this autumn meeting entitled “The Nature of the Urban: Sustainability challenges in

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-autumn-meeting-2024 - 2026-07-11

In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threatens the environment, climate and indigenous people in the Amazon. More efficient use of existing pastures and alternative livelihoods are some of the factors needed to protect the rainforest, according to a new thesis by Jesica López. Colombia's rainforest is part of the Amazon and i

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-thesis-highlights-sustainable-solutions-protect-amazon-rainforest - 2026-07-11

The government has appointed Olof Johansson Stenman, professor of economics at the University of Gothenburg and a BECC PI, as a new member of the Climate Policy Council. "It is an honor, but above all, it is an important task that the council has," he says. The Climate Policy Council is an independent and interdisciplinary expert body that evaluates and reviews the government's climate policy. The

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/olof-johansson-stenman-new-member-climate-policy-council - 2026-07-11