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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
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Other affiliations
  • Doctoral student
    BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Research Areas

Climate action, sustainable lifestyles, aeromobility, flying less

Current Research 

My PhD research is part of the FORMAS funded research project The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground which studies the growing cultural shift in Sweden to reduce flying because of its climate impact. In my research, I explore changing discourses of aeromobility, particularly focusing on the emergence of a flight-free movement and the ways in which this movement increasingly contests and rearticulates norms and meanings regarding air travel in a carbon-constrained world. The aim with my research is to enhance the understanding for how this form of collective mobilization around low-carbon ways of living challenges deeply rooted high-carbon practices and enables social and cultural change in the transition to a sustaianble society. 

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

25 May 2022