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Portrait Lea Fünfschilling. Photo: Emma Lord.
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Lea Fünfschilling

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

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Portrait Lea Fünfschilling. Photo: Emma Lord.
Contact details
  • Email: lea [dot] funfschilling [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se
  • Phone: +46 46 222 34 76
Organisation
  • Sociology
  • Visiting address: Bredgatan 26, Lund
  • Service point: 31
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Researcher
    CIRCLE

Main research areas

  • Sustainability transitions
  • Institutions and processes of (de-)institutionalization
  • Science- and Technology Studies

Current research

My current research is focusing on developing a theory of endings within innovation studies, i.e. I study how different types of knowledges erode in various industries and if they ever go extinct. I thereby focus on conceptualizing processes of destabilization, discontinuation, decline and de-institutionalization.

Teaching

I currently teach qualitative methodologies on graduate and postgraduate levels at Lund University and I am active in teaching in various international PhD schools in innovation and transition studies.

Publications

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Background

Lea Fünfschilling has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Media Enquiries

Areas of expertise for journalists

  • Sustainability transitions

Research projects

  • ERC Starting Grant for the project ENDINGS – Towards a theory of endings in innovation studies (2023-2027)
  • Swedish Transformative Innovation Policy Platform (STIPP), funded by Vinnova (2017-2023)
17 Feb 2023