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Full project titleFlood Resilience in Slums: Community-Responsive Adaptation in Kibera, Nairobi. Funding organisationThe research is funded under the research programme “Sustainability and resilience – Tackling climate and environmental changes”, which is is jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Sida and Formas. Project timeline2016–2019. Project leaderAt LUCSUS, the pr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/inclusive-resilience-building-floods-informal-settlements - 2026-05-17

Migrant farm workers are some of the most vulnerable people within the global agricultural system. Now climate change is increasingly affecting their health and wellbeing, as well as agricultural production, exacerbating poverty and inequality for people making their living on farm labour. Ongoing research at LUCSUS is studying how climate change, both extreme events such as droughts, floods and f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-climate-change-affecting-lives-farm-workers-case-turkey-and-colombia - 2026-05-17

15 December 2025 12:00 to 13:00 | Other Vi vet alla att det behövs förändringar på systemnivå. Så spelar det egentligen någon roll vi som individer gör? Ja, det gör det – de senaste årens forskning visar att det finns större potential att påverka än vad många av oss kanske tror. Välkommen till ett livesamtal med hållbarhetsprofessor Kimberly Nicholas som i flera år studerat vilka livsstilsval och

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/live-pa-facebook-vad-kan-just-du-gora-klimatet - 2026-05-17

Professor Christine Wamsler is passionate about integrating inner development into academic curricula and institutional structures in order to support students cultivate the inner capacities and practical tools they need to foster resilience, navigate complexity, and contribute to sustainable solutions. Now, she is leading a new project, ALIGN – Embedding Inner Student-Centered Exploration and Dev

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/align-embedding-inner-student-centered-exploration-and-development-higher-education - 2026-05-17

Women make up 70 per cent of Zimbabwe's agricultural labour but have little influence over farmlands and resources. Recent research shows that women farmers are uniting to challenge traditional norms and are gaining influence and respect while promoting sustainable agriculture. When men leave Zimbabwe's rural areas for work in cities and abroad, women farmers establish agricultural leadership comm

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/zimbabwes-women-farmers-fighting-patriarchal-land-laws-and-reshaping-sustainable-agriculture - 2026-05-17

A novel research report maps how workers are experiencing efforts to decarbonise the steel industry in Sweden. It identifies how people’s expectation of change is marked by previous transitions, that blue- and white-collar workers view transitions differently, and how work is a source of great pride to people. "Our aim was to explore the societal impacts of change in different places. Through inte

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-workers-are-experiencing-efforts-decarbonise-steel-industry-sweden - 2026-05-17

13 February 2026 10:00 | Thesis defence Bernard Ekumah has written a thesis entitled: Contesting agrarian futures: Structural contradictions and collective struggle among smallholder farmersExternal reviwer: Associate professor Paul Austin Stacey, Roskilde UniversityMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal  About the eventLocation:Ostrom, Josephson, Bis

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-defence-sustainability-science-bernard-ekumah - 2026-05-17

22 January 2026 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar At LUCSUS, we organise seminars related to our research, education, and impact work, often in collaboration with partner organisations and civil society.  Too hot, too coldDwelling in discomfort as a question of thermal justiceSpeaker: Alice Guilbert, doctoral researcher and assistant at the Institute of Environmental SciencesIn Switzerland, temperatures ke

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/lucsus-seminar-too-hot-too-cold-dwelling-discomfort-question-thermal-justice - 2026-05-17

5 February 2026 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar At LUCSUS, we organise seminars related to our research, education, and impact work, often in collaboration with partner organisations and civil society.  Book presentationInsurgent ecologies between environmental struggles and postcapitalist transformationsSpeaker: Salvatore Paolo de Rosa, Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of CopenhagenDis

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/lucsus-seminar-insurgent-ecologies-between-environmental-struggles-and-postcapitalist - 2026-05-17

19 February 2026 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar At LUCSUS, we organise seminars related to our research, education, and impact work, often in collaboration with partner organisations and civil society.  Transboundary Ecologies of WarDestruction, Resistance, and the Quest for PeaceSpeaker: Pinar Dinc, Associate Professor and Researcher, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund UniversityThis pres

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/lucsus-seminar-transboundary-ecologies-war-destruction-resistance-and-quest-peace - 2026-05-17

25 February 2026 12:00 to 17:00 | Other Invitation to discuss the scientific implications. Something quite dramatic happened in the EU in December last year. The European Parliament, after decades of political wrangling, decided to approve certain forms of genetic engineering (NGT1 – New Genomic Technologies Type 1 – typically gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9, but excluding transgenic technologies,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/scientific-revolution-european-union-approval-new-genomic-technologies-plant-science-and-breeding - 2026-05-17

A new study on agricultural development in Uganda suggests that it is possible to influence policy without alienating the country's notoriously volatile authorities. The findings challenge assumptions about mobilisation under repression and offer lessons for groups seeking social change in politically restrictive environments. Sustainability researcher Ronald Byaruhanga examined how farmers and ci

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-ugandan-farmers-teach-us-about-politics-under-repression - 2026-05-17

LUCAS student from Croatia What is your background?My background is in Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Even though my bachelor’s degree isn’t directly in social sciences or climate change, I started to see a lot of connections between workplace safety, environmental protection, and climate issues. Over time, I became more interested in how climate change affects not just the environ

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lucas-climate-change-and-society/lucas-student-portraits/marin-slijepcevic - 2026-05-17

Marin Slijepčević Chloé Pierre Kerstin Saathoff Johan Ståhlberg

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lucas-climate-change-and-society/lucas-student-portraits - 2026-05-17

LUCAS student from France What is your background?For the past seven years, I have been involved in an environmental association that advocates for comprehensive education on global issues for young people, particularly in secondary schools. This is where I developed my awareness of environmental issues. I also pursued a BA in Political Science with a specialisation in international relations in F

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lucas-climate-change-and-society/lucas-student-portraits/chloe-pierre - 2026-05-17

Maja Essebo Murray Scown Bregje van Veelen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lucsus-teacher-portraits - 2026-05-17

Associate senior lecturer What is your academic background? My PhD is in Human Geography. Before that I studied Environmental Sustainability (Master) and Geography & International Relations (Undergraduate). My main topic of research is low-carbon transitions, and although most of my education has been in geography, I also often borrow ideas from sociology and political science for studying how tra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lucsus-teacher-portraits/bregje-van-veelen-teacher-portrait - 2026-05-17

Researcher and Director of Studies for LUMES and LUCAS What is your academic background?Political science (master) and human geography (PhD).What courses are you teaching and what is your research about?In LUMES I teach the course Politics of sustainability and in LUCAS the course Transformational approaches to climate change. I usually also supervise master thesis students and give lectures in va

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lucsus-teacher-portraits/maja-essebo - 2026-05-17

5 March 2026 13:00 to 14:00 | Seminar Research seminars with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Seminar presentationSoraida Chindoy Buesaquillo, Inga indigenous leaderSolanyi Ordóñez, member of the Tent of ResistanceValentina Lomanto-Perdomo, film director & PhD student, LUCSUSTorsten Krause. Associate Professor, LUCSUSThis short documentary film narrates the socio-env

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/re-existences-body-art-and-spirituality-defence-life-film-screening-and-qa - 2026-05-17

LUCAS student from Germany/Sweden What is your background?I have been in the corporate world for 16 years; the majority of this time I spent working at Google in different locations, most recently as a Senior Program Manager in the EMEA News Partnerships team managing innovation projects. Before that I spent some time in technical account management for ad serving, as well as online PR.My educatio

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lucas-climate-change-and-society/lucas-student-portraits/kerstin-saathoff - 2026-05-17