Associate Professor in Rural Development

Publications

Research and Teaching.

My research deals with the intersecting fields of gender, development and environmental management. I work on citizenship in environmental management, institutions and rural development, and questions of identity, gender, ethnicity and class. Issues of research approach engage me a) the doing of the research - participatory research, ethics and b) analytically – analyzing environmental questions in a North-South perspective in the globalizing context of environmental governance.

In the project, Gendered structures of climate change response I investigate how and why mechanisms such as carbon trading have become a predominant response to the problems of climate change and I study the gendered aspects of climate change policy and response. In a project on Swedish rural development, I study how gender and ethnicity organize development initiatives. I am coordinating short-term studies on the gendered aspects of the REDD programs in East Africa with colleagues in universities in Burkina Faso and Tanzania.

Coordinator for the Ph.D course, Gender, Environment and Development offered at our department. Next course: September to October 2012.

Supervisor for thesis on: ‘Engendering science- what decides the education agenda?’ (Stina Powell) and Co-supervisor for theses on: ‘The role of women in shaping the built environment in informal settlements in Uganda’. (Eiman Elwidaa), and 'Changing conditions for intensive farming in Africa: the implications of identity and relations' (Andrea Pettit).

For information on my recently published book Gender, Development and Environmental Governance, please click the picture below