Research area

I have three research areas 1) sociology of food, including social and cultural aspects of food and eating in an everyday perspective and over time, meal rhythms in the Nordic countries, what makes people eat less meat or welfare meat, organic consumption, and how food-budget pressure is handled by people; 2) Societal use of, and human relationship with, animals including family animals and laboratory animals. I have investigated animal ethics orientations in Denmark and in other countries, as well as veterinarians’, farmers’ and animal experimenters’ relationship to animals; 3) empirical ethics in biotechnological issues, including the use of artificial intelligence in the healthcare system and the use of advanced genetic technologies in livestock breeding. Methodologically, I use both qualitative (interviews/focus groups/ethnography) and quantitative (questionnaire) methods in my research.

Academic positions

2005-2006 Research assistant, Department of Organization and Labor Sociology, Copenhagen Business School

2006-2008 Research assistant, Department of Human Nutrition, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copehagen.

2008-2012 Ph.D. student, Department of Human Nutrition, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copehagen/ Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

2012-2017 Assistant professor in sociology of food and agriculture, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

2017- Associate professor in sociology of food and agriculture, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

Teaching and supervision

2012-2015 Sociology of Food Consumption, masters’ course at Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

2016-17 Empirical Methods in the Social Sciences – masters’ course at Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen (course responsible)

2017 – Empirical Methods in the Social Sciences – bachelor course in Environmental at Food Economics, at Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen (course responsible).

2023 – Health, Nutrition and Quality of Life A, bachelor course in  på Jordbrugsøkonomi, Science, KU (co-course responsible).

I supervised 12 master’s thesis students and 6 PhD-students.

Link to CV