Dr. Britta Acksel

Scientific Advisor Methods of Transformation Research

Britta Acksel
Tel.:+49 202 2492-147
britta.acksel@wupperinst.org

Education and Academic Training

  • 2022 Doctorate "Opening the toolbox … Insights into current sustainability efforts in and of cities". Goethe University Frankfurt. Supervision Prof. Dr. Gisela Welz und Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner (Humboldt University Berlin)
  • 2013 Master of Arts Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt. Focus: Global Economies
  • 2012 Kadir Has University Istanbul - Department of Radio, Television and Cinema
  • 2010 Bachelor of Arts Social and Cultural Anthropology and Political Science at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
  • 2010 Hastings College (NE, USA) Political Science

Professional Experience

  • Since 04/2023 at the Wuppertal Institute
  • 09/2022 - 03/2023 Post Doc Researcher with Prof. Dr. Friedrich Balke at the Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr University Bochum
  • 2019 - 2022 Researcher with Prof. Dr. Julika Griem at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen
  • 2018 - 2019 Researcher Project: Ener/Change: Spaltung in NRW überwinden - Energiewende für alle kommunizieren a spart of the Virtual Institute Energy Transformations NRW (Ministry for Economy, Industry, Climate and Energy NRW)
  • 2016 - 2019 Doctorate Scholarship of the Klaus Murmann Foundation. Think Lab - Energy, Society, Transformation. Fieldwork in Brussels (BE), Almada (PRT), Essen (GER), Malmö (SWE)
  • 2014 - 2015 Research Assistance for Prof. Dr. Robert Ladresch at Keele University (GB) Project: Climate Policy and Climate Parties
  • 2013 - 2016 Researcher with Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen Project: Energy Transition Ruhr - Framework program to implement the Energy Transition in the cities if the Ruhr Area (Mercator Foundation)

Research Focus

  • Methods of Transformative Research
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Anthropology of Policy
  • Sustainability Transformations in/of cities
  • Participation

Research Methods

  • Ethnographic Methods
  • Interviews
  • Participant Observation
  • Document Analysis
  • Multi-Sited-Ethnography

Teaching

  • Winter Term 2022/23, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for Media Studies "Governing Infrastructures - Discovering Commons and Commoning"
  • Winter Term 2022/23, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for Media Studies "un/political - Infrastructures of current Sustainability-Governance"
  • Sommer Term 2022 University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Philosophy "Dwelling - Human Right or Investment?" Interdisciplinary Tandem Seminar a spart of the KWI teaching Lab together with Dr. Eva Weiler
  • Winter Term 2017/18 University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Optional Studies a spart of the certificate Education for Sustainable Development "EnergyWalk - Sustainability in Essen's northern City Centre"
  • Sommer Term 2017 University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Optional Studies a spart of the certificate Education for Sustainable Development "Essen: European Green Capital - Edible City 2027?"

Memberships

  • Society for Transdisciplinary and Participative Research
  • Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment / Human Relations (Humboldt University Berlin)
  • German Association for Empirical Culture Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, DGEKW)
  • STSing - Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Société International d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)
  • European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

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