Master of Technological and Socio-Economic Planning, Ph.D. Degree in Social Science

My primary areas of responsibility being an Assistant professor at SLU, are divided between research related activities and education. My research activities include the development of research projects, research proposals, and implementation and management of research and research projects. I publish my work in journals and books, and I review publications and research proposals. I participate in and co-organise seminars and conferences. My teaching activities include teaching and supervision of master students and PhD students. I teach within and outside SLU. In addition to my primary areas of responsibility I take on various administrative, advisory and representative assignments for SLU.

Areas of interests

I study phenomenon of socio-political marginalization and the tendencies of political exclusion within contemporary society in general and within contemporary sustainability policy in particular. With inspiration from Critical Theory my research is framed by social theories on democracy and marginalisation. With the ambition going beyond the constitutive forces and the latent conditions of political exclusion and marginalisation within natural resource management, I collaborate with fellow researchers as well as with citizens groups and various institutional actors in the creation of new knowledge and the search for desirable changes, ‘openings’ and alternative solutions.

Teaching

I teach students on PhD level and master level and I am involved in various master and PhD-courses. One PhD course I have been involved in for a number of years is the international PhD action research network, ARALIG. Another PhD course is the ‘Bio-energy and Social Sciences’ course within the research school of bio energy within SLU. On master level I am currently involved in the ‘Environmental Communication and Management Programme’ and in the ‘Integrated Water Resource Management Programme’. Both programmes are based on a problem- and project oriented approach. Apart from this I am also engaged in, and responsible for various administrative tasks, seminars and workshops.

Research projects

Social & political legitimacy of nature resource management - the creation of community agoras in rural Sweden

Minimizing the blind spot of public institutions: Recovering multiple rationalities for public deliberation of sustainable development

Science and values

Developing Research projects

Confronting challenges to political legitimacy of the natural resource management regulatory regime in Sweden - the case of illegal hunting in Sweden’

Wildlife dimensions of humans’ & ‘Hunting contribution project