About

I am a Senior lecturer involved at the Political Science department. In parallel, I'm affiliated with the interdisciplinary 'Food & Health program' at Örebro University (Sweden), in which I investigate the preconditions and dynamics of political consumerism, with special reference to food consumption and sustainability. In my research, I connect insights from Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Economics to gain a better understanding of whether, when and in what ways people participate in politics. In particular, I am concerned with how context and peer-group influences form political consumerism and sustainable behaviors. For this purpose, I use a combination of different methodological approaches, including quantitative surveys, experiments, qualitative interviews, and comparative methods. Before starting as Postdoc in Örebro, I studied International Business and Political Science, among others at the University of Mannheim and Essex University. After that, I worked as a lecturer in Political Sociology at the University of Mannheim and was part of research projects at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Siegen.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Comparative Politics, Environmental Policy, Green Politics, Political Participation, Political Psychology, Political Sociology, Identity, Quantitative, Social Media, Climate Change, Decision Making, Experimental Design, Mixed Methods, Political Engagement, Survey Research, Influence, Political Cultures

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Psychology
• Environmental Politics
• Food Policy and Governance
• Political Methodology