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Latest articles and announcements from STRN
4 May 2026
The STRN Steering Group (SG) is seeking 5 members to support the network’s development. SG members provide advice to the Board and also take on specific tasks such as organizing workshops, leading thematic or working groups, or […]
23 March 2026
The STRN thematic group on Equity and Justice in Transitions (Ju-ST) is convening a global workshop series to better understand diverse conceptualizations of justice and how these can be embedded in sustainability transitions thought and […]
9 March 2026
We are pleased to announce the release of the STRN Newsletter 58. This edition opens with an editorial by Daniel Rosenbloom, Bruno Turnheim, Bipashyee Ghosh, and Florian Kern reflecting on the growing importance of strengthening […]
5 March 2026
The International Sustainability Transitions conference (IST) is the yearly scientific gathering of the global community of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working on socio-technical transitions for sustainability. IST is organized under the auspices of the Sustainability […]
18 February 2026
There is a shared view that the STRN has the capacity and the responsibility to play a more active role in policy engagement and to enhance the impact of the field. To help inform future […]
16 January 2026
Call for Abstracts – 4th Workshop of the Thematic Group on ‘Multi-system Dynamics’ in Sustainability Transitions After three successful workshops in Oslo (2023), Gothenburg (2024), and Winterthur (2025), we are happy to announce that the […]
8 December 2025
We are pleased to announce the release of STRN Newsletter 57. This edition opens with an editorial by Teis Hansen (University of Copenhagen), the new Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, who reflects on […]
1 December 2025
Carleton University has become the first North American institutional member of our network. Located in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, Carleton connects world-class researchers, industry leaders, and over 30,000 students to tackle the most pressing global […]
25 July 2025
We are happy to announce the release of the STRN Newsletter 56. This edition opens with an editorial by Nuno Bento (DINÂMIA’CET, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon), offering reflections on last month’s IST’25 in […]
11 July 2025
Whose voices are heard when we talk about sustainability? In a powerful new blog, Kanika Balani and Carla Douglas González reflect on what it means to centre equity and justice not only in theory, but […]
14 May 2025
We are pleased to share the final agenda of the 10th Annual NEST Conference 2025, which will be held at SPRU in Brighton later this month. Please check here to see the full list of participants, speakers, […]
17 April 2025
Attention all STRN ECRs and PhD candidates: Funding support for educational research upskilling and capacity building, 2025-2026: The Education and Learning in Sustainability Transitions thematic group is delighted to offer funding support to emerging scholars in […]
14 April 2025
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The STRN_Newsletter_55 has been published! Some highlights of this newsletter include an editorial from Anna Bergek reflecting on the recently held STRN PhD School, updates from our Thematic Groups, […]
26 March 2025
To support a more inclusive and globally diverse IST 2025 conference, STRN, in close collaboration with the local IST organizers, is offering needs-based financial support to early career researchers from around the world. We are […]
20 March 2025
Building on the success of the special track on Multi-System Dynamics at last year’s International Sustainability Transitions conference and three successful Workshops on the topic in the last years, Ingrid Mignon, Allan Dahl Andersen, Ksenia Onufrey, […]
17 March 2025
On March 6-7, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) hosted the 3rd International Workshop on Multi-System Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions in Winterthur, Switzerland. Organized by Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer and Jochen Markard, the workshop was […]
7 March 2025
On behalf of the “Building Capacity for Sustainable Development” seminar series, we are pleased to share an invitation to their next session on Wednesday, March 12. This seminar will focus on the critical question of […]
19 February 2025
The 3rd International Workshop on Multi-System Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions will take place on March 6-7, 2025, at ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) in Winterthur, Switzerland. This workshop builds on previous MSI events and […]
13 January 2025
We are excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the 16th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference is officially open! The conference will take place from June 24 to June 26, 2025, in Lisbon, […]
19 December 2024
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 54th STRN Newsletter has been published! Some highlights of this newsletter include an editorial from our STRN board, the latest information on IST`25, and an introduction of our newly […]
2 December 2024
Official media statement The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) and Energy Politics, Policy, and Governance (Energy-PPG) research network have issued a joint open letter to Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva, urging the European Commission to enhance support […]
13 November 2024
The ECPR Research Network on Energy Politics, Policy, and Governance and STRN have written a joint open letter to the European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva, urging the European Commission to enhance support for social science-focused energy […]
23 October 2024
Dear STRN members, We are excited to announce that we are now officially on LinkedIn! You can follow us here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainability-transition-research-network-strn In addition to a classic profile on which we will share the latest news, […]
4 October 2024
The Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) is excited to announce that our annual conference will be held next year at the University of Sussex on May 29th and 30th. This will […]
3 October 2024
Dear colleagues and friends of sustainability transition studies, The 53rd STRN Newsletter is out now! This issue features an editorial by the newly elected Steering Group Members Daniel Rosenbloom and Aline Scherrer, focusing on their […]
3 October 2024
After the conclusion of the yearly STRN Steering Group Election, we are very happy to welcome the new members of the STRN Steering Group: Aline Scherrer, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI (Junior […]
23 September 2024
The NEST/STRN methodology school took place from July 8th to July 12th, 2024, at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, hosted by the Design Impact Transition (DIT) Platform and the Dutch Research Institute for […]
23 September 2024
This year, the NEST conference was organised in a hub format and took place across three continents with 100+ participants. What follows are reports from each of the three hubs: The African Regional Hub was […]
17 September 2024
We are happy to announce the September appointment of the NEST webinar series. Assistant Prof. Bjarne Steffen of ETH Zürich will speak on “The role of finance in sustainability transitions: Empirical insights and levers for […]
21 August 2024
APPLY NOW – STRN PhD School “Systems, Theories, Policies and Practices: An Introductory PhD Course in Sustainability Transitions Research” Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden February 3-7, 2025 We’re extremely happy to announce the […]
9 July 2024
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 52nd STRN Newsletter has been published! In the Newsletter the first editorial of the STRN New Chair’s – Florian Kern.Read the newsletter to learn more about IST2024, STRN […]
18 June 2024
The STRN steering group and board announced today that it has elected Dr Florian Kern as the network’s new chair. Dr Kern will take over from Dr Jochen Markard as of 20th of June 2024 […]
13 May 2024
Save-the-date! STRN PhD School “Systems, Theories, Policies and Practices: An Introductory PhD Course in Sustainability Transitions Research” Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden February 3-7, 2025 We are extremely excited to announce that the first […]
7 May 2024
We are happy to announce the May appointment of the NEST webinar series. Assistant Prof. Katharina Hölscher of Utrecht University will speak on Transformative urban governance and governance capacities. The session will take place on Thursday, 16th […]
22 April 2024
We cordially invite you to a meeting of the thematic group “Urban Transitions and Transformations” during the conference. The thematic group wants to accommodate and foster dialogue between a range of discourses in science and […]
15 April 2024
Due to several requests from our community we have decided to extend the abstract submission to April 27, 2024. We invite all Ph.D. candidates, Master’s students, and ECRs working on sustainability transitions to submit a […]
2 April 2024
Call for New Thematic Groups We are reaching out to the community to propose new Thematic Groups. Thematic Groups (TGs) are self organizedspaces to foster collaboration and knowledge pertaining to a particular theme related to […]
2 April 2024
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 51st STRN Newsletter has been published! In the editorial the STRN Chair’s – Jochen Markard – goodbye message. Read the newsletter to learn more about STRN Events, Updates […]
4 March 2024
The application to this year’s STRN/NEST Method School under the theme “Transformative Research Unlocked,” hosted by the Design Impact Transition (DIT) Platform and the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), is officially open. Guided by […]
22 January 2024
Mark your calendars for next year’s 9th NEST Conference on September 6-7, hosted by Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Digitalization & Sustainability (CREDS). The conference will be held in a […]
16 January 2024
Call for abstract to IST 2024 in Oslo We hereby invite the research community to submit abstracts to the 15th International Sustainability Transitions conference to be held in Oslo, Norway from June 16th to 20th […]
9 January 2024
9th NEST Conference 2024 – Save the Date! Mark your calendars for next year’s 9th NEST Conference on September 6-7, hosted by Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Digitalization & Sustainability […]
21 December 2023
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 50th STRN Newsletter has been published! In the editorial the new members of the steering group (Ingrid Johansson Mignon, Merin Raju Jakob, Tom Hawxwell & Sophie-Marie Ertelt) briefly introduce […]
1 December 2023
Transformative Research Unlocked – Summer School on methods for researching sustainability transitions. Mark your calendars for the 2024 STRN/NEST Method School: “Transformative Research Unlocked,” to take place from July 8th to 12th in Rotterdam. Join us on a […]
31 October 2023
IST 2024 – Call for proposals for tracks and sessions The 15th International Sustainability Transitions conference will be organised at the University of Oslo on the 17th to 19th of June in 2024. The theme […]
3 October 2023
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 49th STRN Newsletter has been published! Among other things, we are looking back at IST 2023. It was the first fully in-person IST in four years, held at […]
25 September 2023
14th IST Conference 2023 – Best Paper Award Winner: Improving Discursive Approaches to Sustainability Transition Studies: Elaborating Discourse Network Analysis By Kimberley Vandenhole, Kristijan Garic, Philip Leifeld The paper applies discourse network analysis as […]
14 September 2023
After the conclusion of the yearly STRN Steering Group Election, we are very happy to welcome the new members of the STRN Steering Group: Merin Raju Jacob , CST Stellenbosch (Junior member) and Ingrid Mignon, Chalmers […]
3 August 2023
OPEN CALL Inviting expressions of interest to host the International Sustainability Transitions Conference (2025 and 2026) The STRN steering group and board invite expressions of interest to host the International Sustainability Transitions conference (IST) for […]
29 June 2023
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 48th Newsletter is available as of now! Have a quick read of the editorial to know more about the professionalization of STRN, the STRN Steering Group 2-day retreat, […]
20 April 2023
Save the Date! The 15th IST Conference will take place in Oslo, from June 17th to June 19th, 2024. More details will follow!
11 April 2023
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 47th STRN Newsletter is available as of now! Have a quick read of the editorial for our thoughts the upcoming challenges and opportunities of the current rise of chatbot […]
2 March 2023
14th IST Conference 2023 Deadline extended: The Call for Abstracts is now open until Friday, March 10th 2023. Submissions for the IST 2023 can be made through the conference submission system. In case of questions, […]
27 February 2023
The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) and Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) jointly invite PhD students and early career researchers to the 2023 STRN/NEST School on Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability […]
9 January 2023
14th IST Conference 2023 Responsibility and reflexivity in transitions Utrecht, The Netherlands August 30th – September 1st, 2023 August 29th – Early-career researcher day We are excited to announce the 14th annual International Sustainability Transitions conference organized […]
20 December 2022
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 46th STRN Newsletter has been published! Due to the unique conditions encountered by the STRN research community over the preceding two years, opportunities have arisen to innovate and […]
24 November 2022
The 8th NEST Conference ‘Re-imagining transitions: beyond established methods and concepts’ will be held on June 30th and July 1st 2023 in a hybrid (online + on-site) format, at the Leibniz-Institute of Ecological Urban and […]
30 September 2022
14th IST Conference, Utrecht, NL August 30 – September 1, 2023 While we eagerly await the IST 2022 edition, we are happy to announce that the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST) will be hosted […]
29 September 2022
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 45th STRN Newsletter has been published! With the editorial focusing on challenges of Transition Studies and transition processes in Global South settings, the newsletter also contains news, updates, publications […]
1 July 2022
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 44th STRN Newsletter has been published! Next to news, updates and publications, it includes impressions from this year’s NEST conference in Lyon, France. Many thanks to all who contributed to […]
5 June 2022
Call for (Self-)Nominations The yearly elections of the STRN steering group (SG) are upcoming and we are looking for people to join us for the upcoming period from Summer 2022 to 2024. SG members provide […]
4 April 2022
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 43rd STRN Newsletter has been published! Next to news, updates and publications, it presents editorial changes in the EIST Journal and a report from a dialogue session on the future of […]
7 March 2022
IST 2022, Nov 21-25: Sustainability Transitions in a Global Context – Extension of submission deadline Important – The submission deadline for the IST 2022 conference has been extended to May 15th 2022 With this Call for […]
5 March 2022
We have many exiting webinars coming up this year and a new co-organizer.A warm welcome to the team, Nur! These were the webinars we hosted in Spring 2022 with March 31 – Saurabh Arora: Decolonizing […]
28 February 2022
Topic: Mixed Methods Application Deadline: March 25 !! The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) and Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) jointly invite PhD students and early career researchers to the 2022 […]
14 February 2022
Last week, the steering group elected Katharina Schiller (Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe) as a new member of the STRN Board. Katharina is an agricultural scientist with a focus on agri-food sustainability transitions, particularly in the […]
15 December 2021
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 42nd STRN Newsletter has been published! Next to news, updates and publications, including the EIST 10-year anniversary special issue (!), it contains reflections on IST 2021 as one of […]
7 December 2021
We are excited to announce that the 7th NEST Conference will take place in Lyon, France! Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2022 Conference website Call for abstracts The conference will be held under the theme […]
1 October 2021
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 41st STRN Newsletter has been published! Many thanks to all contributors, especially the STRN/NEST members who organised this year’s Methodologies School and shared their experiences in the newsletter. Happy […]
8 September 2021
This webinar will be held on Aug. 5th, 14:00-15:30 CET. 22:00 Sydney | 20:00 Manila | 17:30 New Delhi 13:00 Johannesburg | 9:00 São Paulo | 7:00 Mexico City Please fill out the registration form […]
8 September 2021
“Mainstreaming sustainability transitions: From research towards impact” With the call for IST 2021 – “Mainstreaming sustainability transitions: From research towards impact” we invite reflection on how we, as a research community, can make sure that […]
8 September 2021
The 6th NEST Conference is taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 8-9, 2021! Let’s expand transition mind-sets to diverse pathways to sustainability not only in terms of geographical scope but also enabling actors, measures, institutions, approaches and much more. This conference […]
30 June 2021
Dear colleagues and friends of transition studies, The 40th STRN Newsletter has been published! Many thanks to all contributors, especially our NEST members who organised this year’s NEST conference and wrote the editorial reflecting on their experiences. […]
31 March 2021
Dear friends of transition studies, the March 2021 STRN Newsletter is out now (download). Among other news, you will find an update on changes in the EIST editorial board, professionalization of STRN and a Call […]
15 December 2020
Dear friends of transition studies, the December 2020 STRN Newsletter is out now (download). Next to event and project updates and many new publications, it includes an overview of STRN Thematic Groups and a collection […]
30 September 2020
Dear friends of transition studies, the September 2020 STRN Newsletter is out now (download). Looking back at IST 2020 and many interesting updates. Enjoy reading!
30 June 2020
Dear friends of transition studies, the June 2020 STRN Newsletter is out now (download). Enjoy reading!
30 March 2020
Dear transition scholars, the March 2020 STRN Newsletter is out now (download). With a special section on predatory publishing. Enjoy reading!