People, Society and Sustainability (PSS)

The Department of Economics and the Department of Urban and Rural Development are joined in the research school People, Society and Sustainability (PSS), covering social science, humanities research and design science.

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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What do we do?

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Upcoming courses

  • UPPSALA | 2025-10-13 - 2025-10-31

    An introduction to Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Applications, 5 ECTS

    This course provides an introduction to spatial econometrics and is specifically designed for PhD students with a basic background in econometrics.
  • UPPSALA | 2025-10-13 - 2025-11-22

    Qualitative research methods, 5 ECTS

    The course will provide an overview of qualitative methods used in social science. The course is designed around joint reading, written submissions and joint discussions in weekly seminars, connected with the course literature and the PhD student’s own research projects.
  • ONLINE, UPPSALA | 2026-06-01 - 2026-09-18

    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.
Coordinators
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    Jens Rommel, Associate Professor
    Decision-making and Managerial Behavior
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    Stephanie Leder, Associate Professor
    Division of Rural Development