Agenda 2030 PhD courses

Admission priority will be given to the PhD students within the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. There is a possibility for PhD students from other universities and master students to participate in courses - please contact the course coordinator of the specific course for further information. Below you find information about currently offered courses, course registration and course coordinators.

PhD courses, Spring 2025

Nature-based Solutions at the Climate-Biodiversity-Health Nexus: Social and Natural Science Perspectives

NB! moved to spring term 2026, (3 ECTS)

This course incorporates social and natural science perspectives on nature-based solutions (e.g., environmental psychology, ecology, physical geography, epidemiology, human rights and governance). It thereby aims at broadening disciplinary boundaries and provides a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the climate-biodiversity-health nexus and proposed solutions within it (i.e., nature-based solutions). It aims at evaluating these solutions critically and fostering an understanding of challenges, trade-offs, and synergies when trying to solve complex global issues.

• Course syllabus at fukurser.lth.se
• Course convener: Maria Johansson and Marlis Wullenkord.
• maria [dot] johansson [at] abm [dot] lth [dot] se (maria[dot]johansson[at]abm[dot]lth[dot]se) and marlis [dot] wullenkord [at] abm [dot] lth [dot] se (marlis[dot]wullenkord[at]abm[dot]lth[dot]se) 

Degrowth and sustainability pathways

22 April-1 June 2025 (5 ECTS)

In the context of a climate and planetary emergency and the failure of ‘green growth’ solutions there is an increasing demand from society and students to learn about societal models that function without growth. This course will offer this by placing wellbeing for all species and natural systems at the center and rethinking our social systems independent of economic growth in fields such as work culture and labor, decision-making. Focusing on theoretical, yet empirically anchored, themes such as sustainable welfare, steady-state economy, sustainable wellbeing economy, work, care, conviviality and justice, the course unfolds strengths and limitations of these themes in the context of achieving socio-ecological sustainability, as informed by a range of complexities and scalar dimensions.

• Course syllabus (PDF, 215 kB, new tab)
• Course literature (PDF, 245 kB, new tab)
• Registration is done via this webform.
• Registration deadline: 4 April 2025.
• Course convener: Max Koch

• max [dot] koch [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (max[dot]koch[at]soch[dot]lu[dot]se)

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PhD courses, Autumn 2025

All My Relations IV: Nomadic Encounters

1-2, 4-6, 17 & 18 September 2025 (3 ECTS)

All My Relations IV is a course and three-day intensive Ecocamp that explores the potential of performative and interdisciplinary practices to trigger transformation in human behavior and ecological awareness. Artists and interdisciplinary researchers interested in existential resilience, more-than-human encounters, and sustainable development are invited to bring their questions to a laboratory designed to connect art, research, and everyday life. For its fourth edition, the Ecocamp transforms into a nomadic experience. During the three days walking, travelling, and traversing landscapes will be central to our practice, fostering new connections on the move and reflecting on human nature as one of migration, transition, and relational encounters. Both collaborative and solitary moments on the journey will foster reflection, dialogue, and creative engagement with ecology, interspecies relations, and sustainable futures. Prior to the workshop, seminars will provide a foundational understanding of key ecological concepts, resilience theories, and sustainability principles, complemented by an overview of the shared curriculum. 

• Course description (PDF, 193 kB, new tab).
• Longer course description at thm.lu.se.
• Course registration: Submit a max one-page application (PDF) to jan [dot] michelsen [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (jan[dot]michelsen[at]thm[dot]lu[dot]se) with the subject line ALL MY RELATIONS IV, including:
  • A short statement explaining your interest in the workshop;
  • A brief bio;
  • The questions, challenges, or phenomena from your practice, related to the themes of All My Relations, that you wish to bring to the walk.
• Registration deadline: 20 May 2025.
• Course convener: Sofie Lebech
• sofie [dot] lebech [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (sofie[dot]lebech[at]thm[dot]lu[dot]se)

Whose world? Resource (ab)use in the longue durée

1 December 2025 - 16 January 2026 (7,5 ECTS)

Who has the authority to shape the world—and at whose expense? Whose World? Resource (Ab)use in the Longue Durée is a doctoral course that invites participants to examine the historical foundations of environmental and social injustice. Bridging history, human rights, environmental studies, and legal scholarship, the course investigates how both natural and human resources have been defined, exploited, governed, and contested over time. This course offers insights about sustainability issues from a historical perspective by covering early modern and modern periods. Focusing on theoretical, yet empirically anchored themes such as mining industry, forestry, family law, time and temporality and rights tradition, both from indigenous/minority and majority population perspectives, the course unfolds resource abuse and use related to these themes and how this knowledge can be used as an integrated part of work on sustainability issues.

• Course description (PDF, 179 kB, new tab).
• Course schedule: A specific schedule will be added shortly, but scheduled dates are 1/12, 5/12, 12/12, 19/12, 5/1, 9/1, 12/1 and 16/1.
• Course literature (PDF, 78 kB, new tab).
• Course registration: Send an e-mail to Joachim Östlund (Joachim [dot] ostlund [at] hist [dot] lu [dot] se (Joachim[dot]ostlund[at]hist[dot]lu[dot]se)).
• Registration deadline: 21 November 2025.
• Course convener: Joachim Östlund
• Joachim [dot] ostlund [at] hist [dot] lu [dot] se (Joachim[dot]ostlund[at]hist[dot]lu[dot]se)