| Birgit Habermann is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research. She joined the centre in April 2013. Function
Conducting research, delivering lectures and offering seminars Biography
Birgit has a magister-degree in ecology from Vienna University with research and study periods at the University of Lund, Sweden and Peshawar University, Pakistan. Furthermore, she holds an MSc degree in Agroforestry from the University of Wales Bangor (UK) and has written her thesis in cooperation with the Multiple Cropping Centre at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She has been involved in research in Pakistan, Thailand, Kirgistan, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Before joining BOKU she was coordinating the Commission for Development Studies (KEF), now at OeAD Gmbh, then at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She recently submitted her PhD thesis in Development Studies on "Ways of Knowing of Farmers and Scientists. Tree and Soil Management in the Ethiopian Highlands" (Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK). Her current research interests are epistemologies in knowledge production; dialogue, negotiation and participation; and a critical look at the framing of development and narratives of natural resource management in East Africa. Currently Birgit Habermann is involved in several research projects in Ethiopia as well as teaching on social issues in agroforestry and natural resource management (BOKU), and applied, qualitative social research theory and methods (SOQUA). E-mail: birgit.habermann(at)boku.ac.at
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