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Agenda 2030 PhD courses

The Agenda 2030 Graduate School provides interdisciplinary PhD courses based on the societal challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals.
The courses are open to all PhD students at Lund University and free of charge.

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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, Autumn 2024

Justice, Equality and the 2030 Agenda

1 November - 3 December 2024 (7,5 ECTS)

The course emphasizes the challenges involved in implementing the 2030 Agenda in both the Global North and the Global South, analysing processes of stratification, social exclusion, discrimination and unequal opportunities. The course takes a multi-scalar approach, linking global processes, politics, institutions and structures to their local practices, outcomes and experiences. The course invites doctoral students to connect their own research to the themes of the course, regardless of their disciplinary background.

PhD courses, Spring 2025

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

7 - 11 April 2025 (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
  • Registration is done via this webform
  • Registration deadline: 17 March 2024.
  • 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 and deadline for registration will be announced shortly.
  • Course convener: Max Koch
  • max [dot] koch [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (max[dot]koch[at]soch[dot]lu[dot]se)

Contact

Do you have general questions about the PhD courses?

Feel free to contact Ylva van Meeningen 
E-mail: ylva [dot] van_meeningen [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (ylva[dot]van_meeningen[at]cec[dot]lu[dot]se)

Previous PhD courses

We have listed all PhD courses given by the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University, which faculty gave the course and in which year the course was last given.

Page manager: ylva [dot] van_meeningen [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se | 12 Dec 2024