Personal profile

Short presentation

My main research and teaching interests are in the fields of environmental and climate sociology, sociology of science, knowledge and professions, urban sociology, and pragmatic social theory. I am member of the IFRO Section on Consumption, Bioethics and Governance. I am also affiliated with the UCPH-SAMF SODAS research center, where I helped initiate the SODAS-Climate group.

Office hours: tuesdays 9.15-10 in room 21-0-U102.

Current research

I currently work on three collaborative research projects:

1) Global challenges, local solutions? Rethinking professional work in a transnational world (financed by FSE)

This project uses qualitative methods to inquire into contemporary changes in professional problemsolving, cooperation and conflict in three emerging, trans-local jurisdictions: urban climate adaptation, prevention of lifestyle diseases, and innovation management.

2) Urban green communities? On civic engaement and citizenship in urban nature and urban ecology (financed by Velux)

This project deploys digital methods, amongst other, to inquiry into the types of civic engagement emerging over the past 10-15 years in Denmark, including what kinds of political engagement is taking place in for instance community gardens and food collectives.

3) Coding attention: digital attention grabbing in and between producers of software (financed by ERC)

In the context of a large-scale reseasrch project led by Professor of Anthropology Morten Axel Pedersen, we inquire into the work of Danish software producers as they use and value user attention, as part of understanding the digital political economy of attention.

Primary fields of research

  • Environmental & climate sociology
  • Sociology of science, knowledge, and professions
  • Urban sociology
  • Digital methods

Teaching

  • Environmental sociology, climate and green transition
  • Theory of science in sociology
  • French pragmatic sociology
  • Science and technology studies (STS)
  • Urban sociology

CV

Born
28.05.1978

Education
PhD in Sociology, University of Copenhagen, 2010

Current positions
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Head of CEVES

Previous positions
2010 (May) – 2013 (Dec.): Assistant Professor / FSE post.doc grant holder, Department of Sociology, UCPH (temporary leave Sep. 2012 – Jun. 2013, Japanese language studies)

2007 (Mar.) - 2010 (14/4): PhD in sociology, UCPH (Dissertation title: ‘Divided socio-natures: essays on the co-construction of science, society, and the global environment’)

2009 (Jun.-Jul.): Visiting researcher, Department of Anthropology, Osaka University (Japan)

2008 (Sep.) – 2009 (Feb.): Visiting Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard University (USA)

Keywords

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Environmental sociology
  • Science & Technology Studies (STS)
  • Climate & risk society
  • French pragmatic sociology
  • Professions & society
  • Digital methods
  • Urban studies

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