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I am now spending a few months at the Sydney Environment Institute as a visiting researcher. I am excited to learn from the critical work going on here in multi-species justice, transformative governance and inclusive biodiversity solutions! https://lnkd.in/grjW3Ziv

Thank you all lecturers and students who participated in this years PhD course on Critical Plant Studies at SLU Alnarp! It was a lot of fun exploring how our relationships with plants can be re-imagined through a wide range of perspectives and activities including plant intelligence, sentience, relationality and process philosophy, plant...

Earlier this spring I was invited as a speaker to a symposium on the status and future of biodiversity in Sweden organised at the Royal Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Future Earth. I presented on valuation of nature, and it was a fully packed day with lots of interesting talks which are now available on youtube (in Swedish)

Transformative research seeks to couple knowledge production with co-creating change. This paper is led by Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu and defines the transformative way of doing research to pro-actively support society's fight against pressing societal and environmental problems. We present six characteristics of transformative research. We...

The PhD course "Critical Plant Studies: Re-imaginings of vegetal life" is now open for applications for 2024.

In this new study called "Contested representations of benefits of urban nature in a densifying marginalised neighbourhood", we examine diverse representations of "benefits" of urban nature, and how these are considered and operationalised in planning by examining a case of densification in Bellevuegården, a marginalised neighbourhood in Malmö in...

How can psychedelics support sustainability? In this new paper published in the European Journal of Ecopsychology me and Marion Nilsson review the evidence of links between classic psychedelics and inner dimensions of sustainable change https://t.co/KWlQ4fxYiz. See abstract below:

I am happy to be part of the newly published paper The Core of Me Is That Which Observes: A Mixed-Methods Study of Trait-Level Sense of Self in the journal Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. In this study, led by Lena Lindström, we explored the phenomenology of sense of self among participants with different levels of...

Last week we did our first visit to the Lule river (Julevädno), as part of the project The role of local knowledge in assessments of biodiversity loss and climate change impacts.