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7 Feb 2023
LUMES alumni Laura Betancur Alarcón is now a PhD-student investigating social-ecological relations in the Magdalena basin in Colombia
Laura Betancur Alarcón graduated from LUMES in 2019. Today she is pursuing a PhD at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human...
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5 Dec 2022
Join Applicant Weeks at Lund University
Between 28 November–16 December 2022, Lund University will be hosting 'Applicant Weeks' for all prospective students and applicants. If you are interested in studying at Lund Unive...
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3 Oct 2022
Student innovation teaches children about sustainability
Students within the master’s programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES) have created a card came for children about the different sustainability issues c...
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4 Oct 2021
LUMES alumni Sara Törnros path to climate change and resilience advisor at Plan International
In the autumn, Sara Törnros from Batch 17, returned to the the LUMES programme – this time as a lecturer at the Resilience and Sustainable Development course. We took the opportuni...
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16 Sep 2021
Field day with the Earth Systems Science course
Last week the new batch of LUMES students had their first field day for the course Earth Systems Science in Lund’s botanical garden. We took the opportunity to talk to three of the...
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5 May 2021
LUMES alumni Georgia Verkuylen's path to become a reporting analyst
Read about Georgia Verkuylen's job as a Reporting Analyst and what she learnt from the LUMES programme.
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5 May 2021
LUMES alumni Takehiro Kawahara's path from graduation to research analyst in Tokyo
Read about Takehiro Kawahara's path to become an Analyst at BloombergNEF, and about the skills he gained from LUMES.
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7 Apr 2021
LUMES alumni Lucia di Paolas career path to become a Just Transition Officer
Read about LUMES alumni Lucia Di Paloa's path to her current job as a Just Transition Officer.
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24 Mar 2021
Top 10 best things about the LUMES programme
More than 900 students has graduated from the LUMES programme since it started in 1997. We asked some of our current students what they think about the programme, and list the top ...
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21 Dec 2020
The representation of sustainability within popular culture
Videos by students from the master programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University
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8 Dec 2020
Chat with us online during the Lund University Application Week, on December 10.
We are pleased to invite you to meet with us on the 10th of December at 1:00 - 2:00 pm and ask us your questions about studying with us! We will be holding an open Q&A in this sess...
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22 Sep 2020
Blog post by LUMES student Lauren Tropeano: There’s more than just dirt beneath the lush lawns
In the LUMES course, political ecology, one of the assignments is to write a blog post on the theme ‘everyday political ecology’. In collaboration with the blog Undisciplined Envir...
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24 Jun 2020
LUMES elective course focuses on inner dimensions and transformation to drive sustainable change
The LUMES elective course, Sustainability and Inner Transformation, examines if personal sustainability can have a bearing on driving change for sustainability. The course is part ...
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4 May 2020
Reflections on the corona pandemic by LUMES student Hanna Geschewski
LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the im...
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27 Apr 2020
Welcome LUMES batch 24
Congratulation on being admitted to LUMES and welcome to Lund University and the LUMES programme.
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18 Mar 2020
New course on Climate Change and Society
Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need fo...
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15 Jan 2020
LUMES Alumni wins Best Thesis Award 2019
The LUMES Alumni Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer (Batch 21) is the winner of the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019.
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26 Sep 2019
2019 Knowledge to Action Projects
Students tackled overconsumption through setting up a centre for borrowing household items; devised an action plan to ensure that our universities become more sustainable, and expl...
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18 Apr 2019
Meet LUMES Alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner (batch 19)
LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today th...
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29 Oct 2018
Knowledge to Action Projects 2018: travel policies, overfishing, flood management and biodiversity loss
An examination of the travel policy in Malmö municipality, flood management solutions in local neighborhoods, lobbying and regulation in Denmark, and biodiversity policies for univ...