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Lisette van Beek

Postdoctoral fellow

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Lisette van Beek, photo.
Contact details
  • Email: lisette [dot] van_beek [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
Organisation
  • Department of Political Science
  • Service point: 31
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Visiting research fellow
    LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • Profile area member
    LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions

Political Science

Research and areas of interest

  • Climate politics
  • Imaginaries
  • Futuring

Current research

Lisette has a background in psychology, environmental governance and Science and Technology Studies. In her research and teaching, she combines critical interpretative research with transdisciplinary engagements with artists, activists and policymakers. She is mainly interested in imaginaries of climate and nature, the role of experts in environmental politics and art-science approaches to imagine sustainable futures. 

Lisette is currently part of the NATURESCAPES project where she studies imaginaries of urban nature. In her PhD thesis (2019-2023) at Utrecht University, she studied the influence of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) in climate politics. She has also taught various courses on futuring and sustainability.

Research environment: Environmental Politics Research Group

Publications

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Introduction

Lisette is an interdisciplinary social scientist who studies imaginaries of sustainable futures.

Last updated: 1 Mar 2025 | webbredaktor [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se