Birgit Habermann is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research. She joined the centre in March 2011. 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 is now writing her PhD thesis on “Framing Tree and Soil Management in the Ethiopian Highlands. Ways of Knowing of Farmers and Scientists in Agroforestry Projects”, supervised by Melissa Leach and John Thompson (Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK). She is also working for a FWF funded project at the Institute for Organic Farming, Working Group Knowledge Systems and Innovations. Her current research interests are the politics of knowledge, epistemologies in knowledge production, and the construction of narratives in natural resource management in East Africa. At the Centre for Development Research Birgit Habermann conducts research for a project in Ethiopia (funded by APPEAR). E-mail
birgit.habermann(at)boku.ac.at Phone
+43-1-47654-2967 Further Information
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