Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN)

📣 Call for Abstracts now open | #IST2026 (31 Aug–2 Sept 2026, Zurich)

For more details about submission requirements, tracks, and sessions, please visit www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-abs...!

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🇨🇦 We’re excited to welcome Carleton University as STRN’s first North American institutional member, an important milestone that reflects the growing global reach of our network!

Read the full announcement 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/carleton-uni...

01.12.2025 12:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Today is the final day to submit your application for the STRN PhD School 2026 at Linköping University, Sweden (March 16–20, 2026)!

👉 Apply here: lnkd.in/gifUmQY2

24.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Propose a session track or special session for #IST26 in Zürich (31 Aug–2 Sep 2026)!

Help us create an engaging, inclusive, and meaningful programme around the theme “Hope – in challenging times and sustainability transitions.”

🔗 Link to full call: www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-ses...

15.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

📢 Applications open!
STRN PhD School 2026 hosted by Thomas Magnusson, Harald Rohracher, Wisdom Kanda and colleagues.

📍 Linköping University, Sweden
📅 March 16–20, 2026

Apply by Oct 14, 2025 via this form 👉https://survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_1GqKjUyK7ZnmLwG

26.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photo of a book. Title "Doing Justice! Doing Just This!"

People standing together in a circle, discussing things and weaving a net of ideas and concepts.

View in a workshop group.

Flor Avelino on “Researching Justice in Sustainability Transitions“

First day of Summer School 2025 “Justice in an interlinked world: revisiting rural-urban and South-North relationships in sustainability transformations” offered valuable moments of exchange and reflection. #justiceinterlinked2025
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social

10.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

⏰ Last day to apply!

Join the STRN Methods School in Vienna (17–20 Nov) with Jonathan Köhler, Flor Alkemade, Klaus Kubeczko, Julia Wittmayer and many more modelling experts from the Austrian Institute of Technology

👉 More info and application form here: www.transitionsnetwork.org/events/metho...

01.09.2025 07:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier Read the latest articles of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

Yesterday I delivered my first desk decision report to the Associate Editors of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. It is a great honour to take over the role as Editor-in-Chief from Bernhard Truffer who has done a tremendous job in developing the journal.

14.08.2025 08:58 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Time to catch up with the latest sustainability transition community updates 🏃‍♀️💨

The 56th STRN Newsletter is out now!

You can find it right here 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Happy summer reading!

25.07.2025 08:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feminist utopias of sustainability transitions | Sustainability Transitions Research Network The 10th NEST Conference brought together over a hundred early career researchers for two days of vibrant exchange, critical reflection, and community building. The event featured strong participation...

How can feminist utopias reimagine sustainability transitions?

At #NEST25, a workshop explored care, equity & interconnection in green transitions.

Read the full blog by Giulia Mininni, Carla Douglas González & Rachael Durrant here transitionsnetwork.org/feminist-uto...

14.07.2025 08:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sustainability talks and visa walls – reflections from the NEST conference 2025 on whose voices are heard:

In a new blog, Kanika Balani and Carla Douglas González reflect on what it means to centre equity and justice not only in theory, but in practice.

Full text: www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/su...

11.07.2025 07:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📡 Tomorrow’s #IST25 plenary will be livestreamed on YouTube!
🗓 26 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:30 (GMT+1)
🎙 “Transition Policy and the Role of Transition Research”
📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/@dinamiacetiul

25.06.2025 17:42 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The #IST25 is on!

With over 500 participants from all around the world.

Nuno Bento from ISCTE officially kicks off the conference, after Florian Kern announces that @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social is finally on BlueSky!

24.06.2025 10:30 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

IST’25 is on: Florian Kern, chair of @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social, introducing what STRN does & how far we have come since 2009. This time, I am co-organising track 6 on actors in accelerating transitions: 7 sessions today & tomorrow - looking forward to the discussions in ED4_A306_Aud & beyond.

24.06.2025 10:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This morning I presented at #IST25 in Lisbon! I presented work from the Horizon2020 project #ROBINSON on how technologies face varying social acceptance in Norway. Energy technologies may face opposition due to local paradoxes, but even ambivalence can be problematic @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social

24.06.2025 13:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New here and not sure who to follow? 👀
We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time.
Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️
go.bsky.app/7STgwpg

23.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 0

Excited to announce we've joined BlueSky just in time for #IST25! Follow @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social for conference updates and highlights from Lisbon throughout this exciting week!

👉 Want your conference highlights shared on our official channels? Tag our account and use #IST25

23.06.2025 07:40 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0