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Research Focus

Human right to adequate food and nutrition, food and nutrition security, gender, intersectionality, food sovereignty, sustainable food systems, sustainable livelihood strategies, governance of natural resources, agroecology

free keywords Food and Nutrition Security Human right to adequate food, rights-based approaches Sustainable diets and food systems Gender, gender-transformative approaches, Intersectionallity Governance of natural resources with focus on marginalised groups Participatory transdisciplinary research approaches

 

Career

  • 2021 Professor, Head of Institute for Development Research (IDR), Dep. Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna
  • 2019 - 2021 Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK
  • 2015 - 2018 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK
  • 2015 - 2021 Adjunct Lecturer, Dep. Societal Transition and Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
  • 2013 - 2015 Acting Chair, Dep. Gender and Nutrition, Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
  • 2010 - 2012 Habilitation Fellowship, Margarete-von-Wrangell Habilitation programme, Ministry of Science, Research & the Arts, Baden-Württemberg & European Social Fund
  • 2010 - 2015 Habilitation in 'Gender and Nutrition', Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
  • 2008 - 2010 Senior Research Fellow, Dep. Gender and Nutrition, Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
  • 2004 - 2008 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR), North West University, South Africa
  • 2003 - 2008 Project Lead (funded by German Research Foundation, DFG), Centre for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen
  • 2001 - 2002 Consultant, InWent-Capacity Building International, Feldafing; aid info service e.V. Bonn, AOK Bayern, Bad Tölz
  • 2001 - 2002 Consultant, Bavarian Regional Office for Agriculture (Bayr. Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft, LfL), ‘Market analysis holiday on farms’, empirical social research, Bavaria & Tyrolia
  • 1998 - 2000 Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Nutrition Department, North West University, South Africa
  • 1997 - 2001 Doctoral Fellow, Rural Sociology, Technische Universität München-Weihenstephan (TUM)
  • 1992 - 1997 Head of Nutrition Counselling, AOK Bayern, districts Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Miesbach-Tegernsee
  • 1991 - 1992 Team leader, aid Infoservice e.V. and Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, 'Mobile consulting, nutrition and consumer protection in the new German States’
  • 1984 - 1991 MSc, Nutrition Sciences and Home Economics, Technische Universität München-Weihenstephan (TUM)

Awards

  • Year: 2002 Awards: OECOTROPHICA Preis für die beste Promotion im Fachgebiet, Berufsverband der Diplom-Oecotrophologen

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