The Climate Change Leadership group at Uppsala University will host the Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference in 2026. The conference will take place take place from June 9-11 2026 at Uppsala University.
The NESS conference has a long history of over 30 years of bi-annual gatherings of researchers within the broad field of social science and humanities approaches to environmental studies among the Nordic countries and beyond. The conference brings together scholars across research fields for meeting and discussing interdisciplinary knowledge co-production and co-creation for sustainability. It include a range of plenary sessions, but are particularly characterised by a stream of parallel workshops, focused on in-depth discussions of draft scientific articles.
The conference theme for NESS2026 is “Bridging the Gaps” and will, for example, offer discussions around the following questions
- How can gaps between environmental goals and implementation be bridged in policy and practice?
- How can scientific knowledge be more effectively integrated into policymaking, and how can policy needs better inform research?
- What characterises fruitful interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity – including co-production of knowledge – in science and policy, and how can it be advanced?
- How can gaps between science and society – and scientists and practitioners – be overcome?
- How can significant divides among different environmental disciplines be bridged?
A call for workshop proposals closed on 7 September 2025 and resulted in nearly 70 submitted proposals. The CCL team is delighted to see that this opportunity is so well received. The scientific committee will now screen and select proposals, for which later this fall a call for abstracts for participants will open.
Read more about NESS2026 www.uu.se/ness2026
