On Friday 13 December, Petra Östergren successfully defended her thesis ‘Sweden's Ban on Sex-Purchase: Morality politics and the governance of prostitution’ and can now call herself a doctor in social anthropology. The thesis examines Sweden's 1998 ban on buying sex. The material was collected between 2009 and 2019 and analyses the law from legal, political and social perspectives as well as withi

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/petra-ostergren-has-defended-her-thesis-swedish-sex-purchase-act - 2025-08-21

At the turn of the year, the Department of Gender Studies became the Division of Gender Studies alongside the Divisions of Social Anthropology and Sociology in a new larger Department. The work with the merger include reviewing all system technical aspects so that the transition will take place as smoothly as possible. “We have also set up a committee with representatives from the various discipli

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/new-year-new-department - 2025-08-21

Something to announce

https://www.cgbkansli.lu.se/en/article/testnews - 2025-08-21

LUCSUS office buildings LUCSUS announces three new Associate senior lectureship (tenure track) positions in Sustainability Science Associate senior lecturer in Sustainability Science: Geographies of Sustainability  (link to the announcement at lu.varbi.com) The applicant should have an interdisciplinary background with a focus on natural science and methods. The position focuses on the geographica

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-positions-associate-senior-lecturers - 2025-08-21

The first session of outdoor pedagogics, to stimulate the children’s reflections and questions around their local environment, facilitated by the artist and pedagogue Jasmine Cederqvist. A unique collaboration between school children and researchers and students at LUCSUS, focusing on children’s thoughts and questions related to sustainable development, aims to contribute to the development of a f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-school-children-focuses-childrens-ideas-and-questions-sustainable-development - 2025-08-21

Boy cycling to school through smog in Indonesia (Photo: Aulia Erlangga) How vulnerable is humanity in the face of climate change? And how have people around the world already been impacted? These are some of the questions to be answered on 28 February by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two researchers from Lund University participated in the final report – Martina Angela Carett

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-how-vulnerable-are-we-and-how-can-we-adapt - 2025-08-21

Next to the Swedish craft beer brewery Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers have built a greenhouse where they test the possibility to grow all year-round hops. In a collaboration with the Swedish local brewery, Brygghuset Finn, LUCSUS researchers are working toward finding ways of improving sustainability of the craft beer industry. The project is part of an international research project, which f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-collaboration-local-brewery-improve-sustainability-craft-beer-industry - 2025-08-21

How to source inner qualities and capacities for life-long learning and transformation? In the new book, “Revolutionizing sustainability education”, LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler and LUMES alumni Iris Maria Hertog and Lucia Di Paola, reflect on the importance of nourishing inner qualities and capacities for supporting sustainability across individual, collective and system levels. Currently,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-book-revolutionizing-sustainability-education - 2025-08-21

LUCSUS researchers Barbara Schröter and Torsten Krause are studying how we can achieve more sustainable value chains for e.g. gold and cattle in Colombia. The Caquetá River in Putumayo, Colombia. Photo: Barbara Schröter The increasing demand of minerals, oil, and agricultural goods have severe negative social and environmental impacts. The extraction of resources leads to land dispossession of sma

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/achieving-more-sustainable-value-chains-are-crucial-preventing-deforestation-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-08-21

New study quantifies how well 12 measures reduce car use, drawing from real-world experience in cities across Europe. Researchers have identified the top 12 ways European cities have been able to curb car use. The most effective measure was applying a congestion charge, with the notable case of London, where city traffic dropped by 33% following the change. Most success stories involved both “carr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/most-effective-ways-reducing-car-traffic - 2025-08-21

With a focus on justice and transformative change, PhD candidate Natalia Rubiano wants to contribute to fill some of the knowledge gaps in the space of Carbon Removal and Negative Emissions. Read more about her research, which sustainability challenges she finds most interesting and how she as a researcher addresses those challenges. What do you explore in your research? My PhD project seeks to ex

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-natalia-rubiano-studies-social-and-ecological-implications-negative-emissions - 2025-08-21

To meet the climate crisis, we urgently need more integrative policy approaches that link inner and outer dimensions of climate change, states a newly released report co-authored by LUCSUS Professor Christine Wamsler. – Climate change is a physical reality, demanding urgent political, structural and practical solutions. But its inner dimension, overlooked entirely by mainstream approaches, is a cr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-about-meeting-climate-crisis-inside-out - 2025-08-21

Image by Svensk kolinlagring from the farm Måttgårds regenerativa, in Halland, Sweden. The agricultural sector and industrial food system is a major contributor to climate change, and biodiversity loss, and particularly vulnerable to its impacts. It is therefore essential to re-think how the agricultural systems can sequester more carbon, and simultaneously create vital ecosystems. A recent resear

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-study-envisioning-sustainable-carbon-sequestration-swedish-farmland - 2025-08-21

A new report written by LUCSUS researchers Kimberly Nicholas and Wim Carton, together with other researchers from the network Researchers' Desk, analyzes the Swedish political parties' climate policies prior to the election. Find out who is listening to the climate science and who is not. – Climate policy should be evidence-based, fair, & get to the root of problems. Together with eight other rese

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-analyzes-swedish-political-parties-climate-policies-prior-election - 2025-08-21

Kelly Dorkenoo argues that research on loss and damage could benefit from engaging more meaningfully, both methodologically and empirically, with the concept of disproportionality. In a new research article, PhD student Kelly Dorkenoo, together with researcher Murray Scown, and Director Emily Boyd, examines disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change. She argues that disproportionali

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-research-disproportionality-loss-and-damage-climate-change - 2025-08-21

LUCSUS warmly congratulates the recently announced 2022 Right Livelihood Award laureates: Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman (Somalia), Oleksandra Matviichuk/Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine), Cecosesola; Central de Cooperativas de Lara (Venezuela) and the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (Uganda). Since 1980, the Right Livelihood has recognized individuals and organizations for their exception

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/congratulations-2022-right-livelihood-award-laureates - 2025-08-21

Barry Ness and Darin Wahl hope that their insights can both enhance other ongoing research in the field, as well as deepen comprehensions of transdisciplinary processes. Sustainability science is about making impact for societal transformations. Building transdisciplinary relationships for the co-creation of knowledge with organisations outside academia is crucial to enact change. New research fro

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-build-transdisciplinary-and-trusting-relationships-societal-transformations - 2025-08-21

Michaelin Sibanda explores how agroecology has become a social agency, and form a space for organizing for women. What do you explore in your PhD? In my PhD-project, I am exploring gender and women´s mobilization strategies for sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, how agroecology helps erode patriarchal relations within rural communities in Zimbabwe. Due to low crop product

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-michaelin-sibanda-studies-gender-and-womens-mobilization-strategies-sustainable - 2025-08-21

Bernard's research is part of the project, "Mobilizing farmer organisations for sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. What is your research about? My research is part of a larger project, "Mobilizing farmer organisations for sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa." My focus is to examine the emergence and growth of smallholder farmers' organisations in Gha

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-bernard-ekumah-studies-smallholder-farmers-organisations-and-large-scale-land - 2025-08-21

Rising temperatures of the Indian Ocean are killing the seaweed, and threatening the livelihoods and traditions of women seaweed farmers in Zanzibar. Photo credit: Natalija Gormalova / Climate Visuals Countdown Guy Jackson, post-doctoral researcher at LUCSUS, has co-written a new explainer on loss and damage, published by the by Loss and damage Collaboration. It unpacks the what, why, how, where,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-contributes-new-explainer-non-economic-loss-and-damage - 2025-08-21