This PhD course is intended for students conducting research related to analysis, design and innovation processes for the needed transformations to achieve sustainability goals. The teachers of the course will offer advanced discussion in theories of transitions and will illustrate their theoretical work through case studies conducted in various places […]
Jochen Markard (ETH-Zürich) was elected as the new chairman of the STRN network. His term started as of the 1. of January. Jochen follows Frank Geels (Manchester University). Lea Fünfschilling from Lund University was elected as a new board member. Check out: Jochen’s website Jochen’s twitter Lea’s website […]
There has been a remarkable response to the call for submissions, with over 300 abstracts submitted and more coming in. Over the past few weeks we have witnessed first hand the mobilization of the transitions research community, which is truly global in nature. Many thanks to all those who have […]
The 30th STRN newsletter (December 2018) is out now. Many thanks for all your contributions!
The Rapid Transition Alliance is seeking to provide what we call evidence-based hope about how, when and where rapid transitions are possible. We are doing this with reference to current and historical examples from around the world. Amid some of the understandable despair about lack of action to combat climate […]
The Call for Abstracts for the 4th NEST conference due to take place in Lisbon at Universidade Nova de Lisboa has brought yet another increase in submissions: in total we have received 119 submitted abstracts! This is three times more applications than last year. This can be seen as […]
The NEST PhD-Network and the STRN methodologies thematic group jointly invite PhD students and junior researchers to a Winter School on “Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability Transitions Research”. It will take place from the 11th to 15th March 2019 at Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany. Please find the program here: […]
The CfP has been published. The new deadline for submitting your abstract/ proposal is January-22, 2019. See conference website for further information. Important dates: 22 January 2019: Abstract submission deadline 22 February 2019: Communication of decisions 22 March 2019: Early bird registration deadline 2 June 2019: Full papers submission […]
We are happy to announce the launch of a new thematic group on Urban Transitions and Transformation Research on urban transitions is a central element in the wider research agenda on the ‘geography of transitions’, i.e. research that explores spatial dimensions of sustainability transitions and the particularities of institutional contexts. […]
The Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) is inviting paper abstracts for the 4th annual NEST Conference 2019 (#4THNEST), with the theme: “Transitions to where? Shared values and visions for sustainability transitions.” The conference will be held on April 4-5, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline […]
