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In autumn 2026, the Faculty of Social Science will launch a new international master's programme at Campus Helsingborg: Innovation and Societal Change. The one-year programme is aimed at students who want to understand and influence how innovation can help meet today's major societal challenges, from climate change to social inequality. - Our society, both locally and globally, faces multiple and

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-masters-programme-innovation-and-societal-change-campus-helsingborg - 2025-11-29

On 24 October, the Faculty's six newly appointed professors will be inaugurated at a ceremony in the Main University Building. A total of 28 new professors will be inaugrated at Lund University. De new professors at the Faculty of Social Sciences are:Katherine Gough, Human GeographyMarkus Grillitsch, Economic GeographyKimberly Nicholas, Sustainability ScienceRoger Persson, Work and Organisational

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/congratulations-facultys-six-new-professors - 2025-11-29

The Faculty Office, ”Kansli S”, is currently preparing for a reorganisation at the turn of the year. The aim is to create a clearer, more efficient and better-coordinated organisation that meets the needs of the organisation and demands of the future more effectively. The Faculty Office has had an increasingly complex and growing workload for a long time. To meet this challenge and improve the wor

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-organisation-faculty-office-more-efficient-and-clearer-operational-support - 2025-11-29

Due to a vacancy in the Nominating Committee a by-election is now being held. You have until 26 November to cast your vote. The task of the faculty's Nominating Committee is to prepare nominations and to establish suggestions of candidates for the positions of dean and deputy dean as well as for the Faculty Board and the University Electoral College. As Magnus Jirström is leaving his position in t

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-nominating-committee - 2025-11-29

The Department of Sociology, which includes the divisions of Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Sociology, has elected a new head. Sandra Jönsson assumed the role on 15 November. We asked Sandra a few questions to introduce herself. Can you tell us a little about your background?I earned my PhD in work and organisational psychology at Lund University in 2005. After that, I spent many rewardin

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/meet-new-head-department-sociologiy - 2025-11-29

Several Faculty buildings in the Paradis area in Lund will be given new street addresses. This is due to police and ambulance staff having difficulties finding the exact location when responding to alarms. The new addresses are put into effect on 1 July 2019. Faculty units with new street addresses from 1 JulySchool of Social Work (the new building Gamla köket) – Allhelgona kyrkogata 8 and Norra v

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/new-street-addresses-paradis-area - 2025-11-29

It feels almost shameful to admit, but climate change has always felt like something abstract and far away. Of course, I know that climate change is happening. I can explain the greenhouse effect. I even use climate change as an argument for banning meat from my diet, reducing my consumption of animal-based products, and travelling through Europe by bus and train. I do all of these things because

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-when-climate-change-becomes-personal-reflection-researching-non-economic-loss-and-damage - 2025-11-29

The UN Climate Change Conferences regularly fail to adequately address climate change. Does this relate to how the conferences are designed and organised? Could developing a different culture of cooperation and communication help to make progress? Which mindsets and associated inner qualities might be conducive in this process? A new study and article by Professor Christine Wamsler and colleagues

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainable-climate-action-requires-new-mindsets - 2025-11-29

A wound in nature, cheap rubbish and dangerous for animals and humans. This is how plastic is presented in visual art and photography around the world, finds a new study. But according to the researchers, some problems are not illustrated. The study is co-authored by LUCSUS researcher Sara Ullström. Together with four research colleagues, Sara Ullström, has in a study identified five interconnecte

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/art-plastics-often-portrayed-waste-and-littering - 2025-11-29

Large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), is increasingly seen as a key component of climate change mitigation pathways that limit warming to 1.5C or 2C.  CDR approaches tend to be frames as novel and untested, and mostly focuses on hypothetical future scenarios. Yet CDR has a longer and, in many ways, more tangible history than this framing suggests – the lessons of which are largely overlooked i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/negative-emissions-and-long-history-carbon-removal - 2025-11-29

The official figures for forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August 2020 show a slight decrease from last year. But researchers at the Brazil's Space Research Institute, Inpe, warn that data may need to be corrected so much that they instead reveal the worst fires in a decade. Torsten Krause, researcher in forest hunting, deforestation and sustainability at LUCSUS, comments on the situation. W

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-fires-brazilian-amazon-august-2020 - 2025-11-29

Murray Scown and Kimberly Nicholas, researchers at LUCSUS, have analysed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions, as well as poorer regions, are insufficiently funded. Consequently, the majority of p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-analyse-how-billions-eu-farming-funding-subsidies-are-being-spent - 2025-11-29

LUCSUS researchers will be part of the upcoming 2020 Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance, where they will be organising a session on migration and climate change. LUCSUS and the University of Liége will be facilitating an innovative session on 16th of September, 2020 at 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CEST) in the 2020 Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance. The session “Is climate change migration a se

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/2020-virtual-forum-earth-system-governance - 2025-11-29

Sara Ullström, PhD in Sustainability Science, will present her work at a first seminar on 17th September. We asked her to explain what her research within the project, The takeoff of staying on the ground, is about. What do you explore in your PhD? My research investigates the questioning of high-carbon worlds through the case of the staying on the ground phenomenon in Sweden. This phenomenon cons

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-sara-ullstrom-studies-mobilisation-and-voluntary-action-connected-low-carbon-ways-life - 2025-11-29

In her first year seminar on 17th September, Kelly Dorkenoo, PhD at LUCSUS, will highlight her research on negative impacts of climate change in Cambodia. She aims to identify potential pathways to address disproportionate losses and damages from climate change at different levels in society.  What is your research about? My research is on the negative impacts of climate change in Cambodia. I focu

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-kelly-dorkenoo-focuses-negative-impacts-climate-change-cambodia - 2025-11-29

Negative emission technologies, or large scale carbon dioxide removal, are increasingly seen as key to slow or halt climate change. Researchers now warn that they are fraught with uncertainties, and raise questions about land use, justice and power. Wim Carton, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, explains what these technologies are about, and why the promises of these

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/uncertain-future-negative-emission-technologies - 2025-11-29

LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00:  The future of traveling, mobility and flyingFlying, or rather flying less, has been in the public debate for the las

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2025-11-29

LUCSUS has been awarded SEK 20 million for a new research project aimed at mobilising farmer organisations for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is one of eleven new research projects, with a focus on Agenda 2030, that have been awarded funding in one of Formas’ biggest targeted calls ever. Interview with LUCSUS researcher Ellinor Isgren, who is leading the new FORMAS proj

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-receives-grant-sek-20-million-realise-global-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-11-29

How can the climate movement continue its struggle and be a force for change in the light of other current crises such as social and economic injustices, inequalities and pandemics? Mine Islar, researcher at LUCSUS, says that joining forces with other causes and movements are one way forward, another is to stay focused and keep a long-term perspective. On October 15, LUCSUS is organising the event

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-will-climate-movements-continue-shape-future - 2025-11-29

New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities. Using Louisiana’s coastal wetlands as a case, researcher David O’Byrne argues that it is high time to turn away from a narrowly economic approach to coastal restoration, and instead focus on improving people’s quality of life, which is dependent on ecologi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/environmental-claims-and-social-needs-clash-louisianas-coastal-wetlands - 2025-11-29