PSS Research School
People, Society and Sustainability (PSS) aims to function as a platform for all PhD students at SLU working with topics related to sustainable resource management, rural development, landscape architecture, environmental communication, agrarian history, and economics. The research school aims at creating an arena based on the humanities and social science perspectives that can critically engage with interdisciplinary issues pertaining to issues that are central to society.
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Upcoming courses
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Connecting research and policy: policy relevance, implications and recommendations in research, 2.5 ECTS
Enhance your ability to turn research into real-world policy impact. This course supports doctoral candidates in analysing policy relevance and communicating evidence-based recommendations effectively. -
Academic writing and text awareness, 3 HEC
The doctoral course “Academic writing and text awareness” (3 HEC) gives you the opportunity to reflect on your own strategies for writing and handling texts, both as a reader and a writer. The course is online and open to PhD students at SLU. -
Preparing to finalise the doctoral thesis and its kappa, 3 ECTS
This course explores the challenges of writing the summarising chapter ("kappa") for a compilation thesis, and considers how to prepare to write it. The course clarifies the purpose of the kappa, and the significance of its strong unifying narrative. On-campus dates: 5-8 May 2026. -
Introduction to Machine Learning in Agricultural Economics, 3.5 ECTS
An introduction to key machine learning methods, practical applications, and data anlytics. -
Environmental communication and the politics of disagreement, 5 ECTS
This course runs in the form of a summer school that explores environmental communication from three key social science perspectives, focusing on social, symbolic interaction, discourses and information infrastructures. -
Developing stylish analytical writing for social sciences, 5 ECTS (CANCELLED)
This PSS Writing Course has been cancelled, but interested students are encouraged to register for the online writing course "Academic writing and text awareness" (3 HEC) of SLU Library, with registration deadline 9 March 2026.
Coordinators
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Stephanie Leder, Associate Professor
Division of Rural Development