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Sara Ullström

Sara Ullström

PhD Student

Sara Ullström
Contact details
  • Email: sara [dot] ullstrom [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se
  • Mobile: +46 73 716 39 58
Organisation
  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • Visiting address: Josephson, Biskopsgatan 5, Lund
  • Room number: Josephson, 116
  • Service point: 59
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Doctoral student
    BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Research Areas

Climate action, sustainable lifestyles, aeromobility, flying less

Current Research 

In my research, I explore the rise and spread of a movement to reduce flying in Sweden (Staying on the ground) and the ways this movement contests and rearticulates norms and meanings regarding high-carbon practices. The aim with my research is to enhance the understanding for how social mobilization around low-carbon ways of living challenges deeply rooted consumption and lifestyle practices and enables social and cultural change in the transition to a sustainable society.

My research is part of the FORMAS research project The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground.

Teaching

I currently teach in two courses at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science:  

MVEN15: Klimatförändringen, vetenskap, och samhälle

MVEN16: Klimatpolitik, samhällsstyrning, och kommunikation

 

Publications

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Introduction

Sara Ullström is a doctoral student at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). She holds a bachelor degree in political science and a master’s degree in applied climate strategies, both from Lund University. Her research focuses on the role of social and cultural change in low-carbon transformations.

Research projects

The takeoff of staying on the ground (2019-2022, funded by Formas) 

A research project exploring the rising movement in Sweden to reduce flying because of its associated climate pollution, and the potentially transformative cultural shift it represents

17 Mar 2023