Sina Leipold
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Sina Leipold is Postdoc Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany). Her main research interests lie in the domains of Discourse Analysis, Global Environmental Politics, Forest and Agricultural Policy, Circular Economy, Bioeconomy.
She currently prepares a research group on societal transformation for a sustainable circular economy in the bioeconomy. In her PhD research, she specifically focused on discursive agency in the politics of illegal logging in the US, the EU, and Australia. Prior to her work in Freiburg, Sina researched for two years on the interrelation of sustainability and spirituality, and transnational agri-food discourses at the Division of Organic Farming, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (Austria) www.nas.boku.ac.at/agts.html.
Teaching
Modulkoordination "Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung" (M.Sc. Umweltwissenschaften / Environmental Sciences,
M.Sc. Forstwissenschaften / Forest Sciences)
Modulkoordination "Internationale Politik und Märkte" (BSc Internationale Waldwirtschaft, BSc Umweltnaturwissenschaften)
"Waldpolitik" im Modul "Umweltpolitik" (M.Sc. Umweltwissenschaften / Environmental Sciences)
Supervision
Kaam, René, Management of environmental risks: the case of Landslides, Master thesis, 2016
Choudhary, Amrita, Exploring Agency in the Discussions on Circular Economy, MSc thesis, 2015
Suarez, Sofia, Landscape Approach: Emergence and Evolution in Scientific and Grey Literature, MSc thesis, 2015
Work Experience
Since 09/2015
| Postdoc/Lecturer at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy (Germany) |
09/2012 – 08/2015 | Research Associate at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy (Germany) |
03/2014 – 05/2014 | Visiting Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament (India) |
09/2013 – 12/2013 | Visiting PhD at Yale University, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (USA) |
01/2011 – 06/2012 | Research Associate at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Division of Organic Farming (Austria) |
06/2009 – 11/2009 | Assistant to the Deputy Head of Evonik Industries Representative Office (Belgium) |
01/2008 – 04/2008 | Assistant to the German Representation of the European Commission, Internship (Germany) |
08/2006 – 09/2006 | Project Assistant at North-South department, Service Civil International, Internship (Germany) |
Education
01/2016
| Doctor of Philosophy, summa cum laude, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany) |
05/2010
| Master of Arts in Social Sciences from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina) and Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany) |
2009 | Semester abroad, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) |
2008 | Semester abroad, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) (Argentina) |
07/2007
| Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences and History from Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) |
Research/Travel Grants
2014 | Goethe-Institut Research & Academic Exchange Grant Programme "Scholars in Residence" |
2012 | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Conference Scholarship, Visit of the International Alumni Conference “Understanding Dynamics of Globalization”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 30.03.-03.04.2012 |
Voluntary Engagement
Since 2015 | Elected Representative of the General Assembly of Doctoral Candidates of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany) |
Since 2014 | Elected Representative in the Doctoral Committee of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany) |
Publications
Special Issue “Discourse, power and environmental policy – Two decades of discursive policy analysis” (in preparation), Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, (own role: guest editor together with Peter H. Feindt, Reiner Keller, Georg Winkel)
2016
Winkel, G., Leipold, S., Cashore, B., de Jong, W., Nathan, I., Sotirov, M., Stone, M. (accepted with revisions) Sustainability and Sovereignty - Narrating illegal logging across the globe, International Forestry Review, Special Issue “Shifting global development discourses: Implications for forests and livelihoods”.
Leipold, S., Winkel, G. (2016): Divide and Conquer: Discursive Agency and the Politics of Illegal Logging in the United States, Global Environmental Change 36: 35-45.
2015
Moffat, K., Lacey, J., Zhang, A., Leipold, S. (2015): The social license to operate: A critical review, Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 11/2015; 00(00).
Winkel G., Leipold, S. (2015): Demolishing Dikes: Multiple Streams and Policy Discourse Analysis, Policy Studies Journal 10/2015; 00(00).
2014
Leipolds, S. (2014): Creating forests with words — A review of forest-related discourse studies, Forest Policy and Economics 40: 12-20.
Leipold, S. (2014): Speaking Organic: Towards a Discourse Analytical Framework for a Global Organic Agriculture, in: Fulquet, G., Lanz, C., Kumar, A. (eds.): Analyzing Globalization in the 21st Century, New Delhi: Palm Leaf Publications: 132-143.
2013
Freyer, B., Aversano-Dearborn, V., Leipold, S. (2013): Sacred Sustainability: Ethical Discourses and Practices in the Context of Sustainability - A Case Study of Six Benedictine Monasteries in Austria and Germany, in: ISSC-UNESCO: World Social Science Report 2013 “Changing Global Environments: Transformative Impact of Social Sciences”: 395-397.
2012
Freyer, B.; Bingen, J; Aversano-Dearborn, V.; Dietrich, P.; Dorninger, M.; Gössinger, K.; Haidl, H.; Klimek, M.; Kurzweg, D.; Leipold, S.; Paxton, R.. (2012): Maximen einer Neuorientierung in der Wissenschaft zur Nachhaltigkeit, paper in edited volume, Festschrift 140 Jahre Universität für Bodenkultur Wien - Quo vadis, Universität?, Vienna.
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