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Research areas

More-than-human/multispecies and biodiverse reconfigurations of sustainable consumption practice; ecocentric approaches to sustainability, climate and nature; ethnic and postcolonial tensions in the marketplace.

I mainly use qualitative, interpretive and ethnographic methods, but I am used to collaborating with colleagues using other methods. 

As Co-PI in the SCC Elite Centre CUHRE (https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/cuhre) and through a variety of roles relative to sustainable production/consumption, I collaborate with a large number of interdisciplinary academic and societal colleagues, both in Denmark and abroad. I ensure dissemination of research insights to wider society through regular presence in the media, the organization of sustainability-themed student case competitions (SDG CAMP 2020-2022, CRE8 2024) as well as outreach activities (e.g. as speaker at the National (Danish) Climate summit in August 2022). In the last years, I have strongly engaged in academic and wider societal knowledge sharing on multispecies studies through the organization of several workshops and seminars on the topic.

Past and current projects

  • Who Owns Nature: sustainable consumption and relations to more-than-human beings in private gardens. Please visit: https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/i_marketing/forskning/forskningsprojekter/whoownsnature
  • Digging for the Climate (Part of SCC Elite Center CUHRE): https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/cuhre/forskning/wp1 
  • More-than-human conflicts in Danish rewilding initiatives (as PhD supervisor)
  • Logistic perspectives on sustainable consumption
  • Ethnic conflicts in the supermarket
  • Plastic - Discursive constructions of matter

Research Interests

Socio-cultural barriers to societal and individual behavioural change in global market societies, studied in contexts related to social and environmental sustainability (shopping practices, relation to and consumption of nature, waste avoidance) 

 

Parenting leave: October 2021 - September 2022 & January 2024 - December 2025 (part-time return from August 2025)

Keywords

  • Consumer Culture
  • Globalization
  • Minorities
  • Sustainable Growth
  • Conservation
  • Nature conservation
  • Nature management
  • Environmental biology

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