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Emily Boyd

Emily Boyd

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Research

Emily is a Professor in Sustainability Science, currently based at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), an internationally renowned centre for research, teaching, and impact in Sweden that she directed for the past seven years. She is currently Director of the Sustainability Forum and co-Director of the Nature-Based Future Solutions Profile Area for scientific excellence at Lund University. She is the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Global Sustainability and is a member of the scientific committee for the Volvo Environment Prize, the scientific board of the Beijer Institute, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Center for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg.

 

Emily is a leading social scientist with a background in international development, environment, and climate change. Her expertise spans climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and loss and damage and she is an author for the 6th IPCC Working Group II, IPBES and UNEP. Her latest research as co-Director of Climes, the VR centre of excellence, focuses on extreme climate event attribution and storylines, their implications for climate justice and consequently national policy. Notable funders include ESRC, NERC, Leverhulme, VR, Formas, Belmont and the EU. She works collaboratively across disciplines, including the natural sciences and the arts, as well as beyond academia, actively cultivating global networks across Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia and Europe.

Teaching

Since, 2000 Emily has taught and coordinated a number of sustainability and development related courses. Her teaching portfolio includes topics on sustainability, geographies of resilience, climate change and development, and research methods.

At LUCSUS, Emily Boyd runs the LUMES masters course Resilience and Sustainable Development (2018-). 

She has been graduate supervisor to up to 40 PhD and Masters theses.

Professional work

Emily Boyd was Director of Lund University Centre for Sustainaibility Studies between 2016 and 2023.

She has previously had a number of leadership roles as research division lead for global development at University of Reading, including departmental impact lead and research director in the School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences (SAGES), Reading University.

She has extensive leadership and management experience in national and international research consortia and scientific assessments. She is an author for the IPCC, IPBES, and UKCCRA and a Earth System Governance Senior Fellow. 

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Other Social Sciences
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Climate Science

Free keywords

  • Sustainability
  • Resilience
  • climate change
  • Development Studies
  • Loss and Damages

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger
  3. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  4. SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
  5. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  6. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  7. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  8. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  9. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  10. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  11. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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