Over the last eight years, I have cultivated an inter-, trans-, and un-disciplinary approach to research and practice. This is demonstrated by experience in both analytical-descriptive and participatory social sciences research, a methodologically pluralist stance, and a curiosity in experimental forms of education.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Circular: Investigating governance factors for a circular economy
GOGREEN: governing green transitions
Challenge Lab: Student-driven transformations
NFR Project, 2024-2028
Eternally funded project, 2023-2026
VGR Funded project , 2018-2022
Transforming the economic system from a linear to a circular economy is critical for realising a sustainable society. New policies and practices need to be developed at the intersection of various institutions and stakeholders. Motivated by the need to connect actors, governance structures, scales and sectors in new and innovative ways, the Circular-project asks: What are the main governance factors driving the co-creation of an innovative circular economy for reduced consumption?
The GOGREEN research project is a global initiative led by Roskilde University. The project’s objective is to identify the constellation of governance factors driving the successful co-creation of green transitions. To achieve this goal, GOGREEN employs an innovative research strategy that invites local teams from all over the world to contribute case studies of local co-creation of green transitions. As of 2024, research partners from 28 countries in all parts of the world have been enlisted to execute 37 case studies.
Challenge Lab at Chalmers University of Technology is a challenge-driven innovation and co-creation arena aiming to support the transition towards a more sustainable society.
Previous projects
HackAIR (2016 – 2018)
hackAIR aims to raise collective awareness about the daily conditions of air quality and thermal comfort, as well as provide information about the probability of forest fires in Europe.
It enables you to easily access information relevant to outdoor air pollution and thermal comfort conditions, and also to contribute to their monitoring by stating your perception about them. In addition, hackAIR informs you on the probability of a forest fire in your area.
FLOODCitiSense (2016 – 2018)
FloodCitiSense aims at developing an urban pluvial flood early warning service for, but also by citizens and city authorities.This service will reduce the vulnerability of urban areas and citizens to pluvial floods, which cause serious damage to the urban environment. Citizens are actively involved in the monitoring of rainfall and flooding, making use of low-cost sensors and web-based technologies. The early warning service will enable ‘citizens and cities’ to be better prepared and to better respond to urban pluvial floods. FloodCitiSense targets a co-creation of this innovative public service in an urban living lab context with all actors.
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