PhD Conference on Sustainable Development, 9 October 2025
New ideas are needed to address complex societal challenges. On 9 October 2025, the Lund University PhD Conference on Sustainable Development encourages interdisciplinary collaboration to advance academic research on sustainability. It's a space to share ideas, learn, and explore.
This year’s theme: to be announced soon
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 where the theme is going to be announced shortly.
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 a PhD student from another university.
Submissions
The call for proposal submission is now open.
We invite 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!
We will provide a meeting space with opportunities for conference participants to meet, network and exhibit their work, performance or poster. If you need support or have practical questions about how to organise different activities, we can give some support.
Here is information on how to submit your proposal.
The deadline for submissions is 22 August 2025.
Registration
The registration to the PhD Conference on Sustainable Development will open shortly. It is a full day conference on 9 October, but it is also possible to participate during parts of the day.
Practicalities
There is no conference fee. The venue for the conference will be in 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.