Paula Deppenbrock is a student assistant in the research group Social Geography of Coastal and Marine Areas at the Institute of Geography at Kiel University. She is also part of the coordination team of the EnJust network. Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Geography, her interests in in the connections between marine research, chlimate change and envionmental justice stems from her background in water sports.

Mirja has an interdisciplinary background in the field of environmental social sciences and a degree in comparative literature. She’s a researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn where her PhD work focusses on water governance in general and on water and mining conflicts in particular. Mirja is interested in the intersection between institutions and discourses; in the ways in which how we speak and think about natural resources shape how we manage them and vice versa. Further research focusses on knowledge regimes and infrastructures for marine CO₂ observation. Mirja has a keen interest in feminist political ecology, feminist methodologies and intersectional research.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Mongolia

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Anna Lena Bercht is a human geographer and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography at the University of Kiel. Previously, she was a guest researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at the Stockholm University and at the Disaster Research Unit (DRU) at the Freie University Berlin. Her research lies at the interface of geography and psychology, with a current focus on psychological barriers, climate adaptation and climate justice based on the example of coastal fisheries. Anna Lena works primarily in the Norwegian Arctic and employs qualitative social research methods. One crucial aim is to better understand cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes in complex human-environment relationships.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Norwegian Arctic

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Mennatullah is an urban planner and visual thinker who aims to inspire sustained and empowered urban development through communication towards a just socio-spatial and visual reality. Mennatullah have long been fascinated by the way knowledge, power, and (in)justice are manifested in and co-construct cities and the public sphere. She is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia university, research associate and PhD candidate at The Technical university of Berlin, an associated researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner, Germany and an affiliated assistant lecturer at the department of urban planning and design in Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.

She is moved by the exploration of ‘agency’, ‘justice’ and ‘assumptions’ within socio-spatial everyday encounters. She is interested in how to enable the vulnerable majority and how to develop communities in an integrated manner. She certainly practices urban planning, design and education as approaches to empowerment with an aim to cover the gap in theory building in contested urban contexts. As a multipotentialite interested in intersections, she deals with urban planning as a developmental multidisciplinary field.

She believes in the role of research in driving local development and national policies as well as the importance of transferring knowledge and systems between global north and south through win-win means. As she views learning and research as two-way cyclic processes, the impact she strives for is the growth of all the humans she meets along her journey. In particular, she is interested in experimental methodologies and participatory action research through which she aspires to take values into action by connecting justice and urban planning.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Egypt, Mediatized World

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Aneesa Jamal is a Doctoral student in Curriculum & Instruction at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, CEE-Change Fellow 2023, North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) & Global Fellow, Center for Climate Literacy, University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on children’s storytelling about the Anthropocene, for which she designed two ecopedagogy based interventions, the Young Earth Authors and Young Climate Authors. Her work foregrounds the voices of children from the Global South.

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Country/Region of interest/research focus: India

I am Somaieh Samimi, a PhD student in environmental science from Iran. The field I am interested in is political ecology. The role of power at any scale in access and environmental justice fascinates me. Injustice in the distribution of natural resources, as well as recently, injustice in the distribution of the consequences of excessive consumption of resources such as fossil fuels, is an issue that must be addressed on a global scale. Countries – and within countries, peripheral regions – are being depleted and are often exposed to natural disasters of human origin. This injustice becomes a gap that widens the distance between people in every field. Here and throughout my research, I am looking for a mechanism to bridge this gap and turn injustice into justice.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Iran and East Asia