Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Master's Thesis

Education facts

Code: MESM02

<p>During the fourth term of the LUMES programme the student is required to write and successfully defend a Master's thesis of 30 university credits.</p><p>The thesis should be a synthesis and further development of the knowledge and competences gained during the three terms of course work in LUMES on top of undergraduate studies. The thesis work should develop the student’s potential for professional sustainability work and/or for further research.</p> <p>The process puts great demands on the capacity to work independently. The thesis work should increase the student's ability to seek, evaluate, integrate, and produce knowledge. In addition, it should foster the skill to handle complex issues, phenomena, and situations. In substance, the thesis should focus on a local, national, regional, global, or multiscalar sustainability challenge or problem, and analyse it in relation to dimensions of sustainability.</p> <p>For guidance, every student has access to a qualified individual supervisor and a supervision group of students. The student will defend the thesis in a dialogue with an opponent at a final public seminar, at the end of the course.</p><p>https://www.lumes.lu.se/programme-overview/programme-outline/4th-semester</p>

Entry requirements

The student must have fulfilled course requirements of at least 75 credits in the LUMES programme.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science: Master's Thesis

  Lund University

  Start date: 19 January 2026

  End date: 7 June 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %