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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 they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they gained from the LUMEs programme and what career advice they have for future LUMES g

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2025-10-05

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 explored the potential for art to affect social norms around flying. The Knowledge to Action, K2A, course is all about bringing your theoretical knowledge to bear on real world sustainability problems. Students get to identi

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/2019-knowledge-action-projects - 2025-10-05

The LUMES Alumni Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer (Batch 21) is the winner of the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019. The Centre for European Studies (CFE) annually awards a prize for a bachelor’s or master’s thesis written on a European topic at Lund University. The winner of the  the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019 is LUMES alumni Cristian Pons-Seres

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-wins-best-thesis-award-2019 - 2025-10-05

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 for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever.  At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge needs to be integrated in all aspects of society in order to facilitate the tran

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2025-10-05

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 impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. How is your daily life impa

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-10-05

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 of a research initative, The Contemplative Sustainable Futures Program, a platform for related research, education and networking activities. Christine Wamsler explains that:- Inner transformation can simply be understoo

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-elective-course-focuses-inner-dimensions-and-transformation-drive-sustainable-change - 2025-10-05

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 Environments, a mini-series of selected essays are now being published. First out is Lauren Tropeano, with the blog post: There’s more than just dirt beneath the lush lawns Read the blog post "There’s more than just dirt bene

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/blog-post-lumes-student-lauren-tropeano-theres-more-just-dirt-beneath-lush-lawns - 2025-10-05

As part of the Sustainability and Popular culture course in the master programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUMES), students have created a series of videos analysing the representation of sustainability within popular culture. The videos examines issues such as ecofeminism, urban gardening and narratives for a flight free future. The Sustainability and

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/representation-sustainability-within-popular-culture - 2025-10-05

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 10 best things about LUMES. Testimonials from LUMES students (2020) You learn a lot about sustainability, society, human relationships and the environment. You find friends with the same drive and passion towards making

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/top-10-best-things-about-lumes-programme - 2025-10-05

Lucia Di Paola graduated from LUMES in 2019. Today she works as Just Transition Officer. In this interview, she shares what she learnt from the LUMES programme and how the path to her current job looked like. She also gives some advice to current and future LUMES students. What do you do today? Where do you work, and what is your position? I am a Just Transition officer at ICLEI Europe, a network

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-lucia-di-paolas-career-path-become-just-transition-officer - 2025-10-05

LUMES alumni Georgia Verkuylen, graduated from the LUMES programme in 2018. Today, she works as a Reporting Analyst in Australia. In this interview, you can read about her career pathway and what skills and experiences from the LUMES progamme she values the most in her current job. What do you do today? Where do you work, and what is your position? I work at GreenCollar. My position is Reporting A

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-georgia-verkuylens-path-become-reporting-analyst - 2025-10-05

Takehiro Kawahara graduated from the LUMES programme in 2012. He works as an Analyst at BloombergNEF, which offers advisory service based on analysis on global commodity markets and the disruptive technologies driving the transition to a low-carbon economy. It covers energy, transport, commodities, materials and agriculture. Takehiro emphasises that the skills he learnt in the LUMES programme have

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-takehiro-kawaharas-path-graduation-research-analyst-tokyo - 2025-10-05

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 them about the course and their impressions of the LUMES programme, so far. Earth Systems Science is one of the first courses of the LUMES programme. The course focuses on the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of t

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/field-day-earth-systems-science-course - 2025-10-05

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 opportunity to talk to her about her job as a climate change and resilience advisor at Plan International - and her best memories from the LUMES programme. Tell us more about your job, what do you do as a climate change and resil

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-sara-tornros-path-climate-change-and-resilience-advisor-plan-international - 2025-10-05

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 connected to the lake Vombsjön and its surroundings. The game was developed within the course, Knowledge to Action (K2A), where students get to apply their knowledge to real world problems. – We developed a card game whic

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/student-innovation-teaches-children-about-sustainability - 2025-10-05

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-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). For the last nine years she has worked in the environmental sector in various roles as researcher, writer, lecturer, and journalist for different organisations in academia, media, and i

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-laura-betancur-alarcon-now-phd-student-investigating-social-ecological-relations - 2025-10-05

Två arkeologistudenter har scannat in stenföremål ur museets utställningar och skapat 3D-modeller där du kan snurra runt, zooma in och lära dig mer. Baptismal Font Lund University Historical Museum by Sjoerd van Riel on Sketchfab Masterstudenterna i arkeologi och antikens historia Sebastiaan van der Gaag och Sjoerd van Riel har scannat föremål på museet och skapat 3D-modeller. Du kan rotera bilden

https://www.historiskamuseet.lu.se/artikel/3d-modeller-av-foremal-i-museet - 2025-10-05

Polletter – oftast myntliknande föremål av metall – har en lång historia bakom sig. De har använts i Sverige sedan 1600-talet, och har utgjort betalningsmedel för allt från nöjen till mat, dryck och bränsle. På Lundakarnevalen har man använt polletter med namnet ”Karnedaler” för tredje året i rad. Om du besökte karnevalen i år men inte hann göra av med alla dina karnedaler, kanske du kan förvirra

https://www.historiskamuseet.lu.se/artikel/polletten-som-trillade-ner-i-ahus - 2025-10-05

Den 1 juli öppnar den nya utställningen "Borgfolk" på Glimmingehus. Flera av föremålen som ställs ut, bland annat saker som hittats i borgens vallgrav, kommer här från Historiska museet. Läs mer på Glimmingehus webbsida.Läs mer på Glimmingehus Facebook-sida.

https://www.historiskamuseet.lu.se/artikel/ny-utstallning-pa-glimmingehus-visar-foremal-fran-historiska-museet - 2025-10-05

Lunds universitet grundades 1666 och kan således se tillbaka på mer än 350 års verksamhet. Den nya utställningen ”Lund universitet – historia och historier” på Historiska museet, som öppnar den 31 maj, målar universitetets historia med breda penseldrag och visar några av dess finaste skatter. Utställningen visas i två salar på bottenplan i Historiska museet. I den mindre salen Skattkammaren berätt

https://www.historiskamuseet.lu.se/node/1013 - 2025-10-05