Sara Holmgren

My research is interdisciplinary, critical and change oriented. With a focus on the politics and practice of sustanable development in different domains, I typically explore the instrumental and constitutive functions of communication, and their material effects.

I am interested in the complex interactions between global science, national politics and local land use practices, and the tensions emerging as societies seek to transform in more sustainable directions. Theoretically, I draw on STS, feminist theorising, and governmentality studies, and power and knowledge are concepts key to my work. In addition to leading research projects and doing reserach, I regularly review articles for scientific journals, including Critical policy studies, Agriculture and Human Values, The Extractive Industries and Society, Land Use Policy, Environmental Sociology, Journal of Rural Studies, and Forest policy and Economics. 

I have a broad international research network and experience of working in inter- and transdisciplinary teams. I have extensive experience of collaborating with stakeholders with different interests, from public and private sectors at different scales. 

I regularly participate in panel discussions, organized and moderated workshops, and give lectures outside the academy in collaboration with authorities, companies, research financiers and museums