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About UTRI

Umeå Transformation Research Initiative (UTRI) is available to everyone at Umeå University and supports increased exchange, collaboration and co-operation between various research domains focusing on sustainability research. We also welcome new collaborations with other universities and external stakeholders in the sustainability field.

The original founders of UTRI

Clas Ahlm Professor, senior consultant (attending) physician
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+46 90 785 23 09
Therese Bjärstig Associate professor
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Christoffer Boman Associate professor
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+46 90 786 67 56
Karl Johan Bonnedahl Associate professor
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+46 90 786 65 24
Runar Brännlund Professor emeritus
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+46 90 786 62 70
Åke Brännström Professor
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+46 90 786 78 62
Katarina Eckerberg Professor emerita
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Annika Egan Sjölander Professor
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+46 90 786 79 40
Magnus Evander Professor
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+46 90 785 17 90
Bertil Forsberg Professor
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+46 90 785 27 51
Kalle Grill Associate professor
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+46 90 786 68 07
Katrin Holmqvist-Sten Associate professor
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+46 90 786 59 76
Jan Karlsson Professor
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+46 90 786 60 02
Rasmus Karlsson Other position
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+46 90 786 60 01
Carina Keskitalo Professor
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+46 90 786 50 80
Johan Lundberg Associate professor
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+46 90 786 95 40
Erland Mårald Professor
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+46 90 786 65 45
Jon Moen Professor, other position
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+46 90 786 96 47
Ulf Näslund Professor
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+46 90 786 88 60
Maria Nilsson Professor
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+46 90 786 60 14
Annika Nordlund Associate professor
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+46 90 786 78 30
Christer Nordlund Professor, other position
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+46 90 786 97 33
Thomas Olofsson Professor
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+46 90 786 67 10
Elsa Reimerson Associate professor
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+46 90 786 61 78
Joacim Rocklöv Visiting professor
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Lars Samuelsson Associate professor
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+46 90 786 62 41
Camilla Sandström Professor
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+46 90 786 64 50
Anders Sjöstedt Professor, senior consultant (attending) physician
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+46 90 785 11 20
Anna Sténs Other position
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Patrik Wennberg Associate professor, consultant (attending) physician
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+46 90 786 94 50
Anna Zachrisson Associate professor
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+46 90 786 61 85

Frauke Ecke, associate professor, SLU

Why a network at Umeå university is important

All of us who were part of founding UTRI have long yearned for a cross-disciplinary platform for collaboration. Umeå University has strong and dynamic research about sustainability, climate, environment and many related perspectives. 

But despite sustainability being a core part of Umeå University’s vision, no funding or forums to meet and develop ideas around sustainability were available before UTRI was founded. The goal of UTRI is to bring together various disciplinary perspectives, people and research groups that would not meet otherwise.

UTRI Young Researcher Network

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Vision

  • To build a forum for all creative research environments at Umeå University in which we can create pioneering multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research around sustainable transition
  • To create a strong research network supporting Umeå researchers in their development of new and high-quality multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research around sustainable transition  
  • To create a place for people to meet across faculties for scientific debates, discourses, and new collaborations to allow for studies into conflicts of aims and create synergy effects in environmental targets 
  • To facilitate pioneering research about sustainable transition at Umeå University that also contributes to solving local and global challenges 

Problem formulation 

It has become increasingly important that research environments, research exchanges and collaboration involve many established groups, disciplines and faculties. This is why a forum supporting pioneering and strong interdisciplinary research is needed. 

Despite the many strong research environments at Umeå University, no forum has been available in which researchers can gather around funding calls, in which ideas are born in new constellations and events, and in which workshops give kindling to new ideas and results. 

Umeå University’s research on sustainability issues has not been unified or communicated clearly, neither between the various groups working with sustainability and transformation within the University, nor externally to funding bodies or other research environments.  

The UTRI research network is an important part of creating an extensive research environment for sustainable transition at Umeå University by offering the platforms for commitment, interaction, influence, visibility and facilitation of ideas. 

Mission

  • To build a research network supporting Umeå researchers in their development of pioneering and high-quality multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research around sustainable transition 
  • To create places for people to meet across faculties for scientific debates, discourses and new collaborations, for example in relation to conflicts of aims and synergies in environmental targets
  • To support researchers who wish to tailor activities to support creative multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, across disciplines and within the entire Umeå University network

Completed events

Here you will find a list of events that UTRI has been involved in.

Steering group

Christoffer Boman Associate professor
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+46 90 786 67 56
Annika Egan Sjölander Professor
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+46 90 786 79 40
Carina Keskitalo Professor
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+46 90 786 50 80
Erland Mårald Professor
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+46 90 786 65 45
Jon Moen Professor, other position
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+46 90 786 96 47
Maria Nilsson Professor
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+46 90 786 60 14
Annika Nordlund Associate professor
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+46 90 786 78 30
Henrik Sjödin Research fellow
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+46 90 786 80 88

Support funktions

Kristina Lindblom Communications officer, public relations officer
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+46 90 786 94 88
Johanna Gardeström Project coordinator
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+46 90 786 99 27

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Latest update: 2021-06-22