CEFO – The Center for Environment and Development Studies Research Forum
https://climatechangeleadership.blog.uu.se/cefo/
CEMUS Research Forum is a transdisciplinary research forum open to researchers and PhD-students at Uppsala University, SLU and other universities in Sweden. CEFO activities focus on environment, development and sustainability studies. We collaborate with other universities and departments to enrich research education through our transdisciplinary Sustainability Seminars, PhD courses, workshops, lectures and field trips. CEFO was initiated by PhD-students, staff and students at CEMUS in 2002 as a research school between Uppsala University and Swedish Agricultural University (SLU).
CEFO is mainly driven by PhD students from across Uppsala University, along with senior faculty support. Our affiliated members and other participants are from diverse departments and disciplines, bringing multiple perspectives to the discussions. We encourage conversations framed by problem, not by discipline.
What We Do
Twice per month we host a research seminar series featuring talks and workshops from CEFO members and invited speakers. We run skills workshops and organize field trips. We also initiate and run student-driven PhD courses in collaboration with faculty and offer opportunities for getting feedback for your research from a wider audience. We welcome new members from all departments who hope to broaden their horizons. Seminars, workshops and events are open to any interested PhD students, researchers, master’s students and interested public.
Below you find a schedule for our activities, you are of course welcome to join them. In addition to that, we would be happy to send you invites to our activities, if you are interested in that please send an e-mail to our coordinator helena.fornstedt@angstrom.uu.se.
To become a formally affiliated PhD student see the affiliation agreement and contact the coordinator (Helena). If you are a mater student or researcher we would be happy to include you in our group as a non-affiliated member. The more the merrier!
Supported by
Uppsala University Climate Change Leadership Node and NRHU Natural Resources and Sustainable Development Programme.
CEMUS Centre for Environment and Development Studies, an interdisciplinary center for education, outreach, and research at Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
Spring 2021 Schedule
The interdisciplinary seminar takes place Tuesdays 10:15-12:00 twice per month during term time in via zoom or/and in the Baltic Library, at the Department of Earth Sciences, Villavägen 16. The first and last seminar each term includes planning discussions where PhD-students and researchers suggest future activities. The seminar is hosted by affiliated CEFO Members and supported by CEMUS, NRHU and the Climate Change Leadership Node at Uppsala University.
| Time | Title | Location |
| Tuesday,
Jan 26 10:15-12.00 |
Constitutional Meeting: – Affiliates and participants | Zoom meeting |
| Tuesday,
Feb 9 10:15-12.00 |
The Future for CEFO
A workshop where we talk about what we want CEFO to be in the future. Laila and Isabel from CCL will join us in this. |
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| Tuesday,
Feb 23 10:15-12.00 |
“Sustainability: past, present, and future” The PhD candidates; Pascoal João Gota, Anselmo Matusse and Vincenza Ferrara will present their ongoing or upcoming studies of the past and the present which might help find solutions for the future. |
Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |
| Tuesday,
March 9 10:15-12.00 |
Who doesn’t like cycling? Reconsidering the governance of urban cycling in Uppsala Daniel Valentini, PhD Candidate in landscape architecture the SLU Who’s not in favour of biking? Cycling and the bicycle play increasingly dominant roles in discourses on sustainable urban mobility. While actors in urban areas and beyond principally approve of increased urban cycling levels, crucial questions revolve around the strategies, policies, plans and instruments to promote cycling. My PhD-research hones in on these issues on the governance for urban cycling by studying Uppsala as a case city. Valentini is particularly interested in the role of innovations in reconsidering who governs cycling and through which means. This talk will provide a broad overview of his PhD-research. He will present preliminary findings on the governance of cycling as directed by Uppsala Kommun, as well as the engagement of various actor groups to provide new perspectives on cycling advancement in the city. Theoretically, he will draw on theories of sustainability transitions but also test early ideas on urban planning at the intersection to degrowth scholarship. |
Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |
| Tuesday,
March 23 10:15-12.00 |
Walk and talk in Stadsskogen | |
| Tuesday,
April 6 10:15-12.00 |
‘Climate Change Leadership in Negotiations: How the IPCC navigates climate action.’
Youba Sokona, vice chair of IPCC. Joint session with the course Climate Change Leadership – Strategies and Actors for Change. |
Open for CEFO affiliates/members and CCL course participants |
| Tuesday,
April 20 10:15-12.00 |
‘Decolonising Climate Change Leadership’
Stefania Barca, Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership. Joint session with the course Climate Change Leadership – Strategies and Actors for Change. |
Open for CEFO affiliates/members and CCL course participants |
| Tuesday,
May 4 10:15 -12.00 |
‘Thriving Cities Initiative: Scaling down Doughnut Economics’
Andrew Fanning, Data & Analysis Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute. Joint session with the course Climate Change Leadership – Strategies and Actors for Change. |
Open for CEFO affiliates/members and CCL course participants |
| Tuesday,
May 18 10:15 -12.00 |
Mikael Karlsson, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change Leadership. Joint session with the course Climate Change Leadership – Strategies and Actors for Change. |
Open for CEFO affiliates/members and CCL course participants |
| Tuesday,
June 1 10:15 -12.00 |
Constitutional meeting – election of new coordinator |
Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |