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From Acceptance Drivers to Rebound: International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2025

This year marked the 16th annual conference of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network. The theme of the International Sustainability Transitions conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, was tensions and trade-offs in structural changes for sustainability transitions.

Poornima Kumar presented her research in an oral presentation titled “Digitalisation in daily life: from acceptance drivers to rebound”. Her talk covered three aspects of the integration of digital technologies and services into daily life: 1. the ways in which the societal, technological, and individual factors determining our acceptance of digital technologies interact; 2. how this interaction shapes continued use; 3. the various outcomes of continued use, including rebound mechanisms.

She was a recipient of the EDITS Paper Award at the conference. Access her presentation slides here.

Top: a panoramic view of Lisbon. Mid left: a plenary session in the IST conference. Mid right: Poornima’s presentation, Tensions in digitalised daily life: from acceptance drivers to rebound (photo credit: Benigna Boza-Kiss). Bottom: traditional Cante Alentejano singers at the conference dinner.