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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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. -
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. -
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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Stephanie Leder, Associate Professor
Division of Rural Development