PhD Conference on Sustainable Development
On 9 October 2025, the Lund University PhD Conference on Sustainable Development brought together doctoral students from across disciplines to share ideas, learn, and explore sustainability in research.
The conference will return in autumn 2026 – stay tuned for more information.
Please note: This event has already taken place. The page will be updated during 2026 ahead of the next conference in autumn.
This year’s theme: Sustainability pluralism: approaches, regions, actors
It is time to explore new directions in how we formulate the problem of sustainability and devise responses to it. This year’s theme, framed by Torsten Krause’s keynote address ‘Epistemic pluralism in interdisciplinary research – Where are we now and where are we heading?’, addresses both the opportunities and challenges that such an undertaking entail.
Invited key speaker is Torsten Krause from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (Torsten Krause - Lund University).
The Agenda 2030 Graduate School has organized four PhD conferences on sustainable development, each highlighting a specific theme. The next conference will take place on 9 October 2025.
The aim with the conference is to showcase ongoing research and networking opportunities for PhD students from the whole university. It will be a space to meet and share ideas and research, and hopefully strengthen existing as well as generate future collaboration across disciplines, departments and faculties. All PhD students at Lund University with an interest in sustainable development, broadly conceived, are welcome to join. If there is enough space, you are also welcome to participate if you are a master's student or PhD students from another university.
Submissions
The call for proposal submission is closed.
We invite Lund University PhD students to suggest panels, papers, posters and other activities of your choice. You can propose whole panels of fellow PhD students discussing research papers, or roundtable panels on a specific topic or theme. You can organise a knowledge sharing session, a walk and talk, submit an individual paper or poster, propose an artistic/cultural activity, an exhibition, living labs, videos or anything else. Feel free to experiment!
The deadline for submissions was 22 August 2025.
Registration
The registration to the PhD Conference on Sustainable Development is now open and will close 30th of September. It is a full day conference on 9 October, but it is also possible to participate during parts of the day.
Register here
Practicalities
There is no conference fee. The venue for the conference will be at the Faculty of Law, Lilla Gråbrödersgatan 4, Lund.
About the organiser
The Lund University PhD conference on Sustainable Development is organized by the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University, a cutting-edge research school and collaborative platform for issues related to societal challenges and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.