Last week, I attended the German Sociological Foundation's biannual congress - this year under the topic "Futures of Society". It was a fantastically rich and diverse set of panels, sessions and discussions. In particular, I enjoyed the discussion of our ad-hoc group on the topic "beyond sustainability: futures of socio-ecological justice", convened by Maria Backhouse, Dennis Eversberg, Matthias Schmelzer and Bernd Sommer. Based on my research in wildifre-affected communities

On 08.-09.10.2026, the 4th German symposium for social scientists working on forests took place in Frankfurt am Main. It was a rich and diverse couple of days of pitches and shared discussion. Among other things, we discussed care and conflicts in forests and - with my new team from the Cluster of Excellence Future Forests - the complexity of decision-making for future forests. More info and the programme can be found here: Images to follow!

I am thrilled to have been awarded an Incubator Grant by the DFG-Cluster of Excellence "Future Forests" at the University of Freiburg

In Feb 26, Lena received an award for the outstanding contribution of her dissertation to the study of sustainability.

In my qualitative methods class in winter 2025, we took the classroom into the city and explored multisensory walking as a research method with my colleague Marie Duchêne.

Feature in the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group's ECR Spotlight series

I am delighted to share that I successfully defended my dissertation at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich with the distinction "summa cum laude". Words fall short to express my gratitude to everyone who has been a part of this journey. I am grateful to my supervisors Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich and Prof. Dr. Henrike Rau for their mentorship and advice. I thank the Heinrich Böll Foundtation for their scholarship funding and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Soci

Fantastic workshop discussing global environmental crises and the planetary

In May 2024, I spent three glorious weeks in the Puiglian country side writing up my dissertation amid towering eucalypts, rugged coastlines and historic villages

In Feb 2024, members of the MCMP and the RCC came together to discuss the role of values in climate and environmental science.

Shared digital article exploring more-than-human loss and shared grief in the wake of devastating wildfires like the Australian 'Black Summer'

How do emotions affect how we navigate the climate crisis? My open-acess paper in Geographica Helvetica explores the engaging and disengaging effects of emotions on climate action

Roundtable Discussion "The Right To Be Cold" with Nabila Abdel Aziz and Guests, "Habibi Kiosk", hosted by Muenchner Kammerspiele and Goethe Institute Munich

In September 2021, I attended the 2051 Munich Climate Conference, an arts-science collaboration organised by Bureau Grandezza and hosted at Bellevue di Monaco in Munich. Beyond your usual academic conference, it was a unique thought experiment prompting researchers to imagine their research as it might be perceived in 2051 - and the world we might live in by then - accompanied by immersive multimodal experiences. Will it be a utopian or dystopian future? How might it have bee

In our new article, we argue that anthropocentric perspectives are not sufficient to address socio-ecological crises because they themselves are part of a crisis-ridden system of environment-society relations. Hence, merely expanding the moral-philosophical concept of anthropocentrism is problematic. We suggest that a non-anthropocentric, intersectional perspectives offer a more nuanced account of problematic nature-society relations and their transformation. https://www.inge