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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.  - We are delighted to host Luiza Saatova (Луиза Саатова) as a visiting PhD candidate for part of her Sverker Åstrom Foundation scholarship, We hope she will enjoy her stay with us, says Barry Ness, LUCSUS.Luiza’s PhD research at the Novosibirsk State University concentrates on understanding and fostering sustainable

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-hosts-visiting-phd-candidate-novosibirsk-state-university - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christine Wamsler has been appointed Professor of Sustainability Science to continue driving forward LUCSUS’ work on urban sustainability, risk reduction and adaptation. How do you build sustainable cities? How can cities respond to increasing disasters and climate change impacts? Who should be involved and how?- The

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/christine-wamsler-new-professor-sustainability-science - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ahead of the Sustainable Food in a Changing Climate event on 19th May, we interviewed Lennart Olsson from LUCSUS about his contribution during the day.What will you focus on in your talk on food supply and climate change?I will highlight the big trends we can expect for the coming decades in terms of productivity chan

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/our-food-preferences-are-very-important-climate-change-interview-lennart-olsson - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ahead of the Grand Opening of Sustainability Week and the Sustainable Food in a Changing Climate event on 19th May, we interviewed Kimberly Nicholas from LUCSUS about her contribution during these two events.What will you focus on in your two talks during Sustainability Week?I will focus on the environmental impacts o

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-you-eat-more-important-where-it-grown-interview-kimberly-nicholas - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS recently featured the research and recent article on perspectives on loss and damage by Director Emily Boyd. This week, Stephen Woroniecki, follows up with a comment on a contribution by Dr Koko Warner, Manager of the Climate Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Risks subprogramme, which includes the loss and damage w

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/human-mobility-and-paris-agreement-continuing-conversation-loss-and-damage - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Emily Boyd comments on the event on the theme of “sustainability in education”, on 18th October organised by Sustainability Forum and LUCSUS. The aim is to discuss how Lund University can become more sustainable – and all staff and students are encouraged to join.She says that a sustainable university – wher

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/there-are-many-areas-which-university-could-show-leadership-emily-boyd-creating-sustainable - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sustainability in education should be an issue for the University leadership, as well as researchers and teachers, according to Anne Jerneck and Kim Nicholas, both researchers at LUCSUS.Reflecting on Wednesday’s event for students and staff, on the theme “sustainability in education”, organised by Sustainability Forum

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainability-education-should-be-issue-university-leadership-say-lucsus-researchers - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Reflecting on the IPCC author meeting for the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C in Malmö this week, Professor Lennart Olsson highlights that LUCSUS’ unique research integration of social and natural sciences very much align with ongoing and future work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.– There

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/increasing-social-science-focus-work-ipcc-align-lucsus-research - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. To avoid the harmful impacts of unconscious bias in research and research grant funding it is becoming increasingly clear how important unconscious bias in training of academics is in order to help us understand our own biases. Karin Steen, head of the the Gender, Diversity and Equality committee at LUCSUS and one of

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/karin-steen-about-unconscious-bias - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. - We discussed questions of how people are geographically affected, who is affected, and therefore who might support or resist a particular political arrangement, and what this means for forests as ecosystems, Emily Boyd, Director at LUCSUS, says. She recently took part in a BECC (Biodiversity and ecosystem services i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/governance-climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss-global-forestry-sector-emily-boyd-comments-workshop - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. – The most efficient way to address increasing climate impacts in cities is to mainstream climate adaptation into planning policies and tools. Successful mainstreaming means that climate adaptation will be considered by ‘default’, because it is built into the system, says Christine Wamsler, Professor at LUCSUS, and au

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-adaptation-needs-be-better-mainstreamed-urban-governance-and-planning-says-christine-wamsler - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "Empowerment of vulnerable groups is unlikely to arise through interventions from climate adaptation projects only. Yet, often these projects are seen as drivers for social change", says Stephen Woroniecki, PHD-candidate at LUCSUS.  He says that, in a warming and increasingly unequal world, more and more people are on

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/nature-based-solutions-climate-change-what-scope-empowerment-vulnerable-groups - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Agroecology is a better alternative than large-scale agriculture - both for the climate and for small farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to LUCSUS researcher Ellinor Isgren. This agricultural model preserves biodiversity and safeguards food supply while avoiding soil depletion.  – We must consider other, alterna

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/agroecology-better-alternative-sub-saharan-africa - 2026-10-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Student journalist Lina Lockean join Director Emily Boyd in a reflection on the recent event Arts Meet Science - a day full of powerful conversations about the relationship between arts and science. Art Meets Science was an event organised by LUCSUS in collaboration with Skissernas Museum; inviting artists and scienti

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/festive-reflections-arts-meet-science - 2026-10-01

Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) has now received its reaccreditation through both the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and The Association of MBAs (AMBA). Thereby, the School holds its position in the ranks of top business schools worldwide awarded with a “Triple Crown”. The triple accreditation, or the Triple Crown, is the combination of accreditations held b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-reaffirms-its-triple-crown-accreditation - 2026-10-01

It is with great sadness that we today fly the flag at half-mast on the occasion of a memorial tribute to Antonio Marañon, teacher at the Department of Statistics at Lund University School of Economics and Management who passed away earlier this summer. Our thoughts are with the family and closest relatives.Det är med stor sorg vi idag flaggar på halv stång med anledning av en minnestund för Anton

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/flag-half-mast-today - 2026-10-01

“External engagement is at the centre of what happens at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), be it with partner companies, NGOs or alumni. It’s a bridge between these levels and the students, researchers and teachers at our school and a high priority of our’s”, says Anna France, relationship manager at LUBS. Together with her colleague David Gardner, operations manager of external engagement,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leeds-comes-lund - 2026-10-01

Most researchers want to do things correctly and much of the time this is straightforward: you do not need instructions in order to understand that you are to write your own text and not plagiarise others. But not all rules and processes are as obvious and some change over time.In order to make it easier for researchers to do things correctly, Lund University has produced a one-stop guide: “A rese

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-guide-makes-it-easier-researchers-do-things-correctly - 2026-10-01

Do you want to take your research further? Innovation developer Cecilia Jädert at LU Innovation encourages researchers to come and present their idea. Register for a workshop no later than 9 September. Also, read about the Faculty researchers who got help to start a business.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/innovation-workshop-researchers-how-think-entrepreneur-0 - 2026-10-01

Are you a university lecturer, teacher, student teacher, or researcher in educational science? Or just generally interested in school issues and higher education? You are warmly welcome to this fall’s Higher Seminars in Educational Science.Read more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/discover-falls-seminars-educational-science - 2026-10-01