Vanessa Masterson
Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and project leader of the Powering change project.
Vanessa Mastersons’ research centers around sense of place, bicultural values, co-production of knowledge and community conservation.
May-Britt Öhman
Associate professor at Uppsala University and work package lead in the Powering change project.
May-Britt Öhmans’ research centers around Indigenous studies, history, feminist techno science and innovative super disciplinary methods.
Amanda Jiménez Aceituno
Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and work package lead in the Powering change project.
Amanda Jiménez Aceitunos’ research centers around social-ecological systems, telecoupled systems and transformation for sustainability.
Hanna Sinare
Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and work package lead in the Powering change project.
Hanna Sinares’ research centers around smallholder agriculture, ecosystem services and participatory methods, particularly in the Sahel region.
Michele-Lee Moore
Deputy science director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and researcher in the Powering change project.
Michele-Lee Moores’ research centers around transformations to sustainability and justice, social innovation and social-ecological systems resilience.
Veronica Olofsson
PhD candidate and the Stockholm Resilience Centre in the Powering change project.
Veronica Olofssons’ research centers around power and empowerment, transformative justice and alternative pathways to sustainability.
Ricélia Maria Marinho Sales
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Centre for Agro-Food Science and Technology, and leader of the SURA Research Group (CNPq/UFCG). She holds a PhD in Natural Resources and has extensive experience in geography and interdisciplinary environmental studies, focusing on rural and urban development, sustainability, renewable energies, public policy, and territorial indicators. Ricélia is a member of several research networks and observatories focused on renewable energy and territorial development in Brazil.
Taís Sonetti González
Sustainability practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher at the Institute of Geosciences at UNICAMP, affiliated with the AmazonFACE program and a research collaborator with Powering-Change.
She specialises in participatory action and arts-based research focused on onto-epistemic justice, creating inclusive, multi-stakeholder processes that bridge scientific, Indigenous, and Traditional sciences to co-produce pathways for transformative sustainability in Brazil.
Advisory board
Ana Paula Aguiar
Ana Paula Aguiar is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE).
Ana Paula Aguiar is an academic partner of the Powering change project and has expertise in telecoupled land-use transformations and strong networks with partners in Brazil.
Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano
Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano is a professor in Latin American studies at the Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies (NILAS) at Stockholm University.
Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano is an academic partner of the Powering change project and has expertise in international relations, policy analysis, geopolitics and development studies in Latin America.
Lisa Deutsch
Lisa Deutsch is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Lisa Deutsch research focuses on the couplings between the ecological effects of globalization of doos production systems and national policy and economic accounts.
Magnus Lembke
Magnus Lembke is an associate professor at the Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies (NILAS) at Stockholm University.
Magnus Lembke will provide the project with expertise in Indigenous and peasant movements studies and development studies in Latin America.
Maria Tengö
Maria Tengö is a professor and principal researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Maria Tengös’ researcher centers around human-nature connections and implications for stewardship. Maria Tengö will provide guidance and insights into the projects reflexive co-production of knowledge.
Pernilla Malmer
Pernilla Malmer is a senior advisor at SwedBio.
Pernilla Malmer works in the policy-practice-science interface of biodiversity, resilience and human rights. Pernilla Malmer will provide the project with expertise in global biodiversity policy processes and human rights based approaches to development.
Thaïs Machado Borges
Thaïs Machado Borges in an associate professor in Latin American Studies at the Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies (NILAS) at Stockholm University.
Thaïs Machado Borges brings expertise in social anthropology, including everyday practices of social classification, feminist and decolonial studies and environmental awareness with emphasis on Brazil.
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