Research Conference Programme, 7 Nov 2023

Markku Rummukainen is Professor in Climatology at Lund University. His research has been on climate models, and their application. He has also participated over the years in the work of the IPCC in various capacities, and in Swedish and EU delgations to the UN climate negotiations since 2010, as well as the Swedish Climate Policy Council and had other expert roles related to science for policy. 

Chair:

Lena Halldenius, Professor, Human Rights Studies

Presenting researchers:

Josef Taalbi
Innovation and sustainable transitions - perspectives from economic history

Rhiannon Pugh & Janthe Albers
Navigating the Doughnut Transition; A Deep Transition Framework to analyse the Doughnut Economy in Amsterdam

Sofia Avdeitchikova
From smart specialization to smart transformation – (how) do regions integrate transformative ambitions in regional development strategies?

Sahana Subramanian (cancelled presentation)
Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour: A Study of Kerala’s
Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme (AUEGS)

Venue:

Konsertsalen

Chair:

Britta Sjöstedt, Senior lecturer, Department of Law

Presenting researchers:

Eric Brandstedt
A Policy Brief for a Just Transitiong

Carla R V Coelho
Quantifying biodiversity with life cycle assessment for decision-making

Claudia Ituarte-Lima & Maria Andrea Nardi
From Environmental Human Rights Defenders to Biosphere Defenders: examining agency for just pathways to sustainability 

Emilia Ganslandt (Cancelled presentation)
Different Means to an End: What we can learn from the Youth Climate Movement on How to Make an Impact

Venue:

Amfi

Chair: 

Henrik Smith, Professor, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)

Presenting researchers:

Anna Persson
Backyard buzz – how urban design and gardening practices can promote pollinators in backyards 

Maria Johansson
Motivating public engagement in biodiversity conservation and management 

Carolina Rodriguez
Review of evidence for linkage of nature-based approaches for enhancing biodiversity and adaptation to climate change

William Sidemo Holm 
Evaluating biodiversity assessment tools: enabling corporate decisions with reduced negative biodiversity impacts.

Venue:

Danssalen (max. capacity 30 people)

Hanna Andersson
Barriers and enablers for engagement in local climate change policy approaches to mitigation and adaptation

Olena Bokareva 
Sustainable decarbonisation in maritime transport in light of international and EU law 

Christian Brackmann
MILD Combustion with Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide Reforming - MINICOR

Monika Class
Blue Ecopoetics: Liquefaction in "Nobody" (2018)

Pinar Dinc
Maria Andrea Nardi
Mo Hamza
Lina Eklund
Hakim Abdi
ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict-Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation

Mirjam Glessmer
Teaching for Sustainability: the development of a cross-faculty taskforce to curate and create resources for educators

Peder Hjort
Sustainability research is different

Lisa Källström
A glimpse of the other: Sustainability and care

Emelie Lantz
The role of social sustainability in local partnerships

Jesica López
Land use change in the northern Colombian Amazon: the case of the arc of deforestation and cattle ranching

Yezhe Lyu
Aerosol emissions in the transition to a sustainable road transport system

Iran Augusto Neves Da Silva
Formalin-free fixation and xylene-free tissue processing preserves cell-hydrogel interactions for histological evaluation of both native and 3D ionically crosslinked alginate-based tissue engineered constructs.

Samuel Persson
Iron N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes with Push-Pull Functionality for Solar Cells

Chair:

Aysegül Sirakaya, Researcher, Department of Law

Presenting researchers:

Jutta Holst
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)

Anna Elfström & Josefine Henman
Effects of 1.5° Lifestyles: Rebounds and Consequences 

Marlis Wullenkord
Coping with global environmental change and the emotions it evokes: Empathy and nature connection as resilience factors

Romain Carrié
Managing landscapes to buffer effects of climate changes on bumblebees

Venue:

Konsertsalen

Chair:

Matthew Scott, Researcher, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Presenting researchers:

Emma Lysholm
Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production: Opportunities and Challenges of Research Beyond the Academy

Thomas Hickmann & Magdalena Bexell
Accountability challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals

Lennart Olsson
Lakatos and Lukes in the Field

Erik Swietlicki
The ACTRIS Sweden national research infrastructure

Venue:

Amfi

Chair:

Monika Class, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Languages and Literature

Presenting researchers:

Martina Angela Caretta
Women and water. An art-based academic-community partnership

Dan-Erik Andersson
LU4Water – Sustainable Water Research at Lund University

Anna Oudin
Projected Benefits of Air Pollution Reductions in a Representative Swedish Population

Rolf Larsson
Two solutions for more sustainable agriculture regarding water and nutrients

Venue:

Danssalen (max. capacity 30 people)

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir performs Violin with Þytur (Olofsson & Stefánsdóttir, 2021) within the installation Þytur* during the parallel sessions in the common area on the second floor of Stadshallen.

*Þytur (2020)

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir

Þytur* is a sound installation of 9 mono-channels created for the site of National Trust Formby as part of Stefánsdóttir’s site-specific public work Spherical White with Diamond. The work was commissioned by Curated Place (UK) in collaboration with the National Trust (UK) for NATUR-North Atlantic Tales.  Þytur is a sonic response to the site which is one of shifting shores and part of UK’s largest sand-dune system. The composition grew out of activations with various materials, field recordings, site-specific score, sonifications, archival digging and improvisations. At the same time Stefánsdóttir used the site’s morphing landscapes and transmogrification, as a key to its composition. 

The text in the work is constructed by Stefánsdóttir around Angela Rawlings’ work “Hocket barnacles” found in Sound of Mull (Rawlings, 2019). Performers of text material are Maja Jantar, Angela Rawlings, and Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir.

Length: continuous duration.

Mastering: Kent Olofsson.

*Icelandic for ruffling or whistling.

Hampus Jakobsson is the co-founder and general partner at climate tech venture fund Pale blue dot. Pale blue dot invests in early stage climate solutions across Europe and the US, and has to date raised more than $200m and invested in more than thirty companies. Prior to becoming an investor, Hampus started two startups (TAT The Astonishing Tribe and Brisk), and holds a MSc in computer science from Lund University.

Henrik Smith is professor of biodiversity and conservation science at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC). His research interest concerns both behavioural and conservation ecology, and the interface between the two disciplines. He is the coordinator of the strategic research area BECC and the LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions, as well as a member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council. 

Steinunn Knuts Önnudottir is a performance maker working with sustainable, immersive and participatory encounters. Her work has been played around the world and she a background as a lecturer at the Department of Performing Arts in Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavík where she was a dean 2011 - 2020. Steinunn is currently a Phd candidate at Malmö Theater Academy and a member of Agenda 2030 Graduate School with her project How Little is enough? an artistic research on sustainable methods of performance.  

Hjalmar Åhman is a recent graduate from the Industrial engineering and management program at LTH. His master thesis showcases his passion for the all three pillars (ESG) of sustainability: Diffusion of Solar PV in Kenya - Optimizing the value proposition for the commercial market. He recently started working as a sustainability consultant at EY where CSRD has surfaced as a hot topic. In his role, he took part in the Misum forum at SSE at the end of September. 

Yasemin Arhan Modéer is CEO of Altitude Meetings and also, among other things, Chairman of the Board of ChildFund Sweden. She has a strong commitment to linking societal needs to expertise in academia and is passionate about sustainability and bringing different actors together to solve challenges within climate, social sustainability and democracy. She often talks about the “Happy activist” and how valuedriven organisations are the ones that will survive in turbulent times and will make the most impact short and longterm. 

Annika Olsson is Dean at the Faculty of Engineering at LTH and professor in packaging logistics. Her main research area is in user oriented packaging innovation and packaging development for a sustainable society. Her research has a special focus on food and packaging supply chains, which is carried out in close collaboration with the related industry. In her role as Dean she is responsible for strategic partnerships and collaboration with industry.

Dr. Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir is a violinist, composer, curator and artist-researcher. She has addressed under-researched topics in music research: agency, the work of an interdisciplinary musician, and the role of the curatorial. She has also contributed to method development with focus on stimulated recall and the model of the laboratory. Overall, her work is driven by the wish to look at what sonic thinking can afford through its many material entanglements in our technosocial societies.

Richard Walters is a Senior Researcher in global change biology at the Centre for Climate and Environmental Science. He researches biodiversity responses to habitat and climate change and works together with societal actors to learn how we can best mitigate their effects. 

Yasemin Arhan Modéer is CEO of Altitude Meetings and also, among other things, Chairman of the Board of ChildFund Sweden. She has a strong commitment to linking societal needs to expertise in academia and is passionate about sustainability and bringing different actors together to solve challenges within climate, social sustainability and democracy. She often talks about the “Happy activist” and how valuedriven organisations are the ones that will survive in turbulent times and will make the most impact short and longterm. 

Per Mickwitz is the pro vice-chancellor for research, sustainability and campus development at Lund University. He is a professor of environmental policy and was previously the director of the IIIEE. His research has focused on environmental and sustainability policy, how politics can be evaluated, how innovations occur and in particular how system transitions towards sustainability can be supported.  

Kimberly Nicholas is an Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University. In her research, she studies the connections between people, land, and climate, with the goal of stewarding ecosystems to support a good life for everyone alive today, and leave a thriving planet for future generations. She is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE: How to be Human in a Warming World, and the monthly climate newsletter We Can Fix It. 

Dr. Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir is a violinist, composer, curator and artist-researcher. She has addressed under-researched topics in music research: agency, the work of an interdisciplinary musician, and the role of the curatorial. She has also contributed to method development with focus on stimulated recall and the model of the laboratory. Overall, her work is driven by the wish to look at what sonic thinking can afford through its many material entanglements in our technosocial societies.

Hjalmar Åhman is a recent graduate from the Industrial engineering and management program at LTH. His master thesis showcases his passion for the all three pillars (ESG) of sustainability: Diffusion of Solar PV in Kenya - Optimizing the value proposition for the commercial market. He recently started working as a sustainability consultant at EY where CSRD has surfaced as a hot topic. In his role, he took part in the Misum forum at SSE at the end of September.