Ongoing projects

Making science actionable. Towards a transformative expertise on climate change, biodiversity loss and chemical pollution (2025-29). The project explores the conditions and challenges for developing expertise for transformative change. It does so through a comparative analysis of three expert organizations on climate change, biodiversity loss, and chemical pollution. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas and is led by Rolf Lidskog and Monika Berg is researcher in the project.

Transformative Expertise and Corporations Sustainability Work (2025-2030). The project funds a PhD student as part of The Knowledge Foundation's Jubilee Doctoral Students-initiative. PI for the project is Linda Soneryd, the PhD student Ulrika Winter started in October 2025.

Fossil Free Futures. Divestment across the Nordics (2022-2026). The project explores initiatives to divest the pension fonds from fossil fuels in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The project is funded by the research program Future Challenges in the Nordic (jointly funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland and others). The project is hosted by Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research and is led by Linda Soneryd.

The Roles of Social Science Expertise for Transformative Change. This project investigates the conditions and challenges for developing social scientific expertise for transformative change and studies two global environmental challenges: climate change and biodiversity. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council VR (2023-26) and is led by Rolf Lidskog and Karin Gustafsson is researcher in the project.

What Can Science Deliver and What Does Policy Want? Expectations on Science in Support of Climate Change Action (2020-2023) funded by the Swedish Research Council, VR, and led by Göran Sundqvist, University of Gothenburg. Linda Soneryd is researcher in the project.

(Un)sustainable lifestyles: social (im)possibilities to consume less (2022-2024. This project studies social challenges to reduce consumption. Based on a qualitative interview study, experiences among people with attempts or plans to reduce consumption, is compiled. The project is funded by The Swedish Research Council Formas with Magnus Boström as project leader and Åsa Callmer as post-doc and Linn Rabe and Merve Tuncer as researchers.

AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal (ACCTING). The project’s research, co-creation activities and pilot actions aim to facilitate equal and just sustainable impacts. The project will study the impact of Green Deal policy initiatives on changes in individual and collective behaviours, with particular attention to vulnerable groups, and their effect on inequalities in the EU, on the basis of a multidimensional gendered and intersectional conceptual framework. The consortium includes 12 partners with Örebro University assuming scientific leadership. The project, funded by EU, is led by Sofia Strid at ORU, and participating researchers from environmental sociology is Magnus Boström, Carina Green and James White.

Climate neutral Örebro 2030 3.0. The project, led by Örebro municipality, continues its effort to facilitate collaboration that leads to structural and cultural system innovations for climate change, in both new and existing districts in Örebro. Örebro University, and the Environmental sociology unit, is a partner. In this continuation project Magnus Boström and Merve Tuncer contribute, primarily by. conducting a pilot study on experiences from concrete sharing systems in Örebro. In the previous Climate neutral Örebro 2030, Magnus Boström and Rolf Lidskog contributed with a theoretical article on sharing. The project is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.

To trust or not to trust? Youth’s attitudes, emotions, and trust in climate change science. (2022-2024). This project focuses on one aspect of youth’s CC-engagement that has not been studied in-depth before, their relation to, and trust, in climate change science. The project focus on what role trust in CC-science plays in youth’s identity development, at an individual level and as actors in CC-organizations. The project, founded by the Swedish Research Council Forte, is led by Maria Ojala at ORU, and and participating researchers from environmental sociology is Karin Gustafsson.

The logic of measuring, managing and governing ecosystems (EcoLogic). (2021-2026) The project studies how environmental expertise on ecosystems is formed and how it performs in national policy-formation. It seeks to deepen the understanding of processes that makes ‘nature’ governable through specific government technologies, such as measuring environmental impact, the establishment of new national regulations and management systems and ways of justifying environmental impact. The project is funded by the Norwegian research council and led by Gisle Andersen, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre. Researchers at Örebro University are Hogne Sataoen and Monika Berg.