Dr. Vanessa Jaiteh is a transdisciplinary marine social scientist specialising in tropical fisheries governance, fishing livelihoods, working conditions at sea, and endangered species conservation. Her research bridges the social and natural sciences through extended fieldwork in West Africa, Oceania, Micronesia, and Southeast Asia, and sustained engagement with fishing communities, governments, and international organisations. Her SNSF Starting Grant project SIRENA…
Senior researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern. Her current research focuses on sustainable transitions, just food and environmental and consumption behaviour. Further research focuses on resettlements in the context of natural hazards and nature parks. Country/Region of interest/research focus: Switzerland, Brazil, UK Link
PhD student (she/her) researching on the intersection of transdisciplinarity, art, and critical sustainability at the EcoArtLab. She is involved with the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern and the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB). She focuses on transdisciplinary research in art and climate science collaborations: Investigating methodologies, procedures, and practices to reach epistemic justice in terms of knowledge…
Timothy Adams (Dr. PhD) is Postdoctoral researcher of Human Geography in commercial investments of natural resources, institutional change and innovations, inclusive businesses, gender, and resource governance (e.g., land, water, and forest etc.) at the University of Bern, Institute of geography and member of Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). His current research in sub-Saharan Africa focuses on institutional innovations…
Dr. Jinat Hossain is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, and a Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland. A feminist scholar, her work spans trans/interdisciplinary themes, with a particular focus on feminist political ecology, climate change adaptation and development politics, transformative change, epistemic justice and the feminist political economy…
Elena Zepharovich is a researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern. She finished her PhD at University of Bern at the Institute of Geography. Before joining the CDE, she was working at Vienna University of Economics (WU) in the Department of Ecological Economics in the field of Education for Sustainable Development. Her current…
Senior Researcher in Integrative Geography at the University of Bern. His current research focuses on agroecological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa with a critical perspective and an emphasis on social justice aspects. His research has the overall objective of integrating social-ecological thinking and the idea of justice. This includes conceptual and empirical work looking at environmental justice issues in telecoupled…
