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Lisette van Beek, photo.
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Lisette van Beek

Visiting research fellow

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Lisette van Beek, photo.
Contact details
  • Email: lisette [dot] van_beek [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
Organisation
  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • Service point: 59
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Postdoctoral fellow
    Department of Political Science

Political Science

Research and areas of interest

  • Climate politics
  • Imaginaries
  • Futuring

Current research

Lisette has a background in psychology, environmental governance and Science and Technology Studies. In her research and teaching, she combines critical interpretative research with transdisciplinary engagements with artists, activists and policymakers. She is mainly interested in imaginaries of climate and nature, the role of experts in environmental politics and art-science approaches to imagine sustainable futures. 

Lisette is currently part of the NATURESCAPES project where she studies imaginaries of urban nature. In her PhD thesis (2019-2023) at Utrecht University, she studied the influence of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) in climate politics. She has also taught various courses on futuring and sustainability.

Research environment: Environmental Politics Research Group

Introduction

Lisette is an interdisciplinary social scientist who studies imaginaries of sustainable futures.

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