Research Conference Programme, 4 Dec 2024

Åsa Persson is Research Director and Deputy Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Thematic Research, Linköping university. 

At halfway point of Agenda 2030, the world is not on track to meet the goals and targets, as concluded by the UN Global Sustainable Development Report. Crises have delayed action and conflicts undermine societies’ ability to develop in sustainable ways. In this talk, I look at what science has recommended in order to accelerate transformations, and what current headwinds and tailwinds mean for their feasibility. And what does this mean for a post-2030 agenda? How can science support in revising or rethinking sustainable development at the global level?

Caroline Delgado is a Senior Researcher and Director of the Food, Peace and Security Programme at SIPRI. 

The world faces an urgent and intertwined crisis of escalating food insecurity, conflict, and environmental threats, each exacerbating the others in a vicious cycle. Rising armed conflicts, climate change, and severe ecological pressures have destabilized fragile food systems, pushing millions closer to famine and stoking global instability. Since 2015, gains in combating hunger have reversed, with food insecurity worsening alongside rising greenhouse gas emissions, resource depletion, and a near-quadrupling in major conflicts. By 2050, 2.8 billion people could live in high-risk regions, highlighting the critical need for coordinated, systemic action that integrates conflict resolution, climate adaptation, and sustainable food systems to break this viciouscycle.

Chair:

Markus Gunneflo, Department of Law

Presenting researchers:

Susanne Arvidsson, Business Administration 
CSRD and ESRS: A focus on the first phase of the corporate adoption process

Eric Brandstedt, Human Rights Studies 
The responsibilities of local governments for a just transition

Olena Bokareva, Department of Law
Legal Framework for Sustainable Carriage of Carbon Dioxide for Permanent Storage

Lovisa Halje, Business Law 
Transposing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive into Swedish law. Alternatives and pitfalls

Venue:

Konsertsalen

Chair:

Lisa Eklund, Department of Sociology

Presenting researchers:

Jörgen Dahlqvist, Malmö Theatre Academy
Using ’conversation theatre’ to engage citizens in deliverable conversations on democracy

Christian Palacios Haugestad, LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies) and University of Oslo
The politicisation of climate anxiety in public debate: a critical discourse analysis of news portrayals and reactions on social media

Emilia Ganslandt, LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Time to reconsider Nordic Exceptionalism? – The case for a Nordic Intersectional Environmental Justice in a Time of Crisis 

Thomas Hickmann, Department of Political Science
The role of universities in the global endeavor to implement the Sustainable Development Goals

Venue:

Amfi

Chair: 

Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Presenting researchers:

Pablo Pastor Vidal, Department of Law
The humanitarian-development-peace nexus: looking for sustainable responses for refugees

Fariborz Zelli, Department of Political Science
SDG Change Agents under Threat: The Case of Environmental Human Rights Defenders in Colombia

Tanya Andersson Nystedt, Social Medicine and Global Health 
Included and excluded: an intersectionality-based policy analysis of young migrants' vulnerability to sexual violence in Sweden

Anna Tegunimataka, Department of Economic History
Island Women and the Obesity Transition: A Comparative Analysis of Female Obesity Prevalence and Socioeconomic Gradients in Small Island Developing States

Venue:

Himla Borelius (max. capacity 25 people)

Chair: 

Jenny Palm, The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE)

Presenting researchers:

Jonathan Freidrich, Department of Human Geography
Towards circular couplings: Conceptualizing the globally integrated circular economy

Linda Stihl, Department of Economic History
Circular transitions in global production networks? A multi-scalar approach to anticipating socio-economic and socio-environmental effects of ‘x-shoring’

Eugène Petelin, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies
Security priorities in circular economy transformation

Vitor Souza, Packaging Logistics 
Towards an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to accelerate the transition of global value chains into the circular economy

Venue:

Danssalen (max. capacity 30 people)

Sami Al-Daghistani, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
Economic Cosmology: Ethics, Sustainability, and the Nonhuman in the Muslim World

Britta Sjöstedt - Beyond Borders, Department of Law
Participatory Strategies for Environmental Recovery in Ukraine

Carla Coelho, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
Quantifying impacts of global croplands on biodiversity

Emma Kritzberg, Department of Biology
Time to Walk the Talk: From climate Ambition to Efficiently Reduction the Academic Carbon Footprint

Sara Willhammar, William Tärneberg, Networks and Security
NextG2Com for a sustainable digital transformation of society

Ivan Maximov, Solid State Physics
Towards Sustainable Semiconductor Ecosystem in the Baltic Region

Mirjam Glessmer, Centre for Engineering Education, Steven Curtis, Division for Higher Education Development Karin Steen, LUCSUS, and Terese Thoni, Sustainability Forum
Teaching for Sustainability: the development of a cross-faculty initiative to curate and create resources for educators

Tullia Jack, Service Studies
Methods that make a difference

Sara Håkansson, Agenda 2030 Graduate School
Lund University Agenda 2030 Award – nominate a young researcher today

David Gisselsson Nord is professor of molecular pathology and vice dean for international affairs and security at the Faculty of Medicine. 

As the world becomes more volatile and politically polarized, international collaboration in research and education is increasingly challenged by security issues and pressures to align with national policies. How does this impact daily operations for faculty leadership and co-workers? How should universities adapt to maintain the ability to work internationally to solve global challenges?

Antje Jackelén is senior advisor at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, and former Archbishop of the Church of Sweden.

Sustainability is not only an ecological, economic and social necessity. With increasing awareness of global crises, spiritual sustainability is gaining more attention.

A vital aspect of spiritual sustainability is the engagement with the great intellectual traditions of humanity. When the moorings to the big words and ideas break, the result is micromanagement through rules. “We are just doing our job. We just follow the rules.” This is never good enough when humanity is at stake. There are situations and times that require people, individually and collectively, to think and act outside their comfort zone.

Such situations and times are now. This means that the hunger of the soul needs to be satisfied with special care.

Chair:

Åsa Lundqvist, Department of Sociology

Presenting researchers:

Oscar Gustafsson, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies
A Critical Miss? How Multilevel Substitution Can Help Alleviate Future Cobalt/Lithium/Graphite Constraints

Juan Samper, LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
What is the resource in conflict? 

Mikael Klintman, Department of Sociology
Framing Naturalness in Times of Crisis: Disputes Over Ultra-Processed Plant Proteins and Sustainability

Venue:

Konsertsalen

Chair:

Jamil Khan, Environmental and Energy System Science

Presenting researchers:

Juan Ocampo, Department of Business Administration
Organizing Money - The process of implementing a complementary currency in a context of scarcity

Tullia Jack, Department of Service Studies
Sharing for sustainable development

Alexandra Kjellman, Department of Design Sciences
Towards sustainable packaging in e-commerce: A case study

Venue:

Amfi

Join LU Innovation for a workshop on how your research can create impact in the world through innovation

During the workshop, we examine how your own research could bring about meaningful change by adopting the perspectives of 'need', 'approach', and 'benefit'.   

We will start by considering the needs your research could meet and what problems it could solve, for example, during environmental crises or global conflict. Then, we will discuss your unique way to approach these problems and consider the potential benefits your solutions could bring to society. Lastly, we will discuss how to take your ideas to the next level.  

The workshop will be led by Peter Franck, Innovation Developer, who is specialised in sustainability and green tech and Sophie Picasso, Innovation Developer with a focus on Social Innovation.

LU Innovation website - lu.se

Venue:

Hilma Borelius (max. capacity 25 people)