Virginia is currently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Environment, Development and Sustainability Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her doctoral research explores contemporary environmental movements in the Western Balkans adopting an interdisciplinary approach to explore their role in facilitating stability and sustainable development pathways in the (post) conflict, post-socialist region. This work builds on her previous research…
Amit Ambekar is a climate and sustainability practitioner and doctoral researcher in Human Geography at Kiel University. His doctoral research examines proximity, responsibility and environmental justice in climate governance, with a particular focus on how institutional and spatial arrangements shape the attribution of responsibility and accountability. He is developing the concept of “Proximity Collapse” to understand how responsibility can…
Human geographer and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU University Vienna, Austria. His current research examines energy transitions through the lenses of energy geographies, political ecology, multidimensional justice, and multi-level governance, with a focus on contested land–energy relations across rural and urban contexts. He combines qualitative and mixed-methods approaches with knowledge co-creation and participatory research,…
Syed Muhammad Jaffar Abbas is a Research Associate at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), where he works within the Urban Futures and Sustainability Transformation team. Originally from Pakistan, Jaffar holds a Master’s in Sustainability, Society & the Environment (SSE) from the University of Kiel. His research focuses on climate justice, climate mobility, loss…
As a lawyer, he has been working as a teacher in the field of education for several years. In addition to his professional work, he conducts research on legal didactics. In his dissertation Polytome Rechtsdidaktik, he developed a microtheory of legal learning that deliberately takes into account the diverse application of law beyond the scope of lawyers’ professional practice. A…
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…
Adjunct Professor focusing on sustainability transformations at McGill University, Canada. An interdisciplinary researcher trained in education, Ying-Syuan Huang’s current research focuses on transformative and transdisciplinary research, research ethics governance, collective learning, and the institutional conditions that support socially engaged scholarship. She integrates perspectives from sustainability science, critical social science, research ethics, and higher education studies to examine how universities…
Anthropologist (PUJ, Colombia) with an MSc in Rural Development (PUJ, Colombia) and a PhD in Development Studies (Institute of Development Policy-IOB, University of Antwerp). He holds a postdoctoral fellowship at IOB-UAntwerp and is a research associate at the Center for Alternatives to Development-CEALDES in Colombia (https://oad-cealdes.org/). He works on transformative and collaborative research with rural communities, exploring struggles for…
SMW explores the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materializations. While forms and materials trace species and their social geopolitical context Winterling’s practice reflects upon aesthetic entanglements and power structures among human/ animal/ matter. Her time-based installations critically engage the representation of reality and investigate what pure information and form leaves out – including a sensual approach…
Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy and Management at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She serves as the Faculty Director for Community-Engaged Scholarship for the Nicholas School, the Director for Community Engagement for the Duke University Superfund Research Center and the Co-Chair of the Community Engagement and Environmental Justice…
