The University of Sheffield
2019-today: Post-doctoral researcher, Convivial conservation (CONVIVA), Sheffield Institute for International Development.
The University of Manchester (more details)
2018-2019: Lecturer in Pedagogies for Development.
2017-2018: Lecturer in Environment, Climate Change and Development. Convening PGT and UGT modules as well as the ECCD pathway on Uganda fieldwork, lecturing, teaching, marking, academic advising, supervising dissertations.
2016-2017: Post-doctoral Associate, Global Development Institute. Organising masterclasses, consultations, etc. Supervising master’s dissertations, lecturing, teaching, marking, presenting.
2013-2015: PhD Researcher, Institute for Development Policy and Management. Funded by Economic and Social Research Council and Sustainable Consumption Institute. Member of Society and Environment Reading Group and Global Production Networks, Trade and Labour Reading Group. Supervising master’s dissertations, presenting, lecturing, teaching, writing, one-to-one essay support. Fieldwork with stakeholders in European and Latin American contexts, especially Nicaragua.
Previous: German development cooperation
2011-2012: Young Professional/EZ Trainee for Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)/Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (German Ministry).
Worked for GIZ regional programme on forest policy and climate change in Middle East/North Africa, World Bank, International Institute for Environment and Development, German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (more details including publications and skills on LinkedIn and below).
A selection of things I have done in my time at the University of Manchester (2013-2018):
July 2018: Consuming narratives, creating value(s): focus group discussions and public engagement with responsive consumers on cocoa sustainability. Conference paper for Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018, Cologne.
June 2018: Panel “Value chains and production networks: reducing or reproducing inequalities?”, convened at the 2018 Development Studies Association Conference in Manchester by Judith Krauss, Stephanie Barrientos and Bimal Arora.
June 2018: Between credibility and control – carbon offsetting and cocoa certification. Co-authored with Robbie Watt. Conference paper for POLLEN18 (Political ecology) conference 2018, Oslo.
September 2017: Panel “Production networks, value chains and shifting end markets: implications for sustainability”, convened at the 2017 Development Studies Association Conference in Bradford by Aarti Krishnan, Judith Krauss, Khalid Nadvi and Stephanie Barrientos.
January 2017: What is sustainable cocoa? Constellations of commercial, socio-economic and environmental priorities associated with a polysemic concept. Submitted as GDI Working Paper.
November 2016: Co-authored with Aarti Krishnan: Global decisions and local realities: The politics and policies of upgrading and their implications in agricultural global production networks. United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards Discussion Paper No. 7.
September 2016: Induction of our new PhD researchers through a welcome by the Institute, reading groups, and their fellow PhD researchers.
September 2016: Factilitating the Sustainability Challenge (I also blogged on that).
September 2016: Global decisions and local realities: The politics and policies of upgrading and their implications in agricultural global production networks. Conference presentation and paper, co-authored with Aarti Krishnan, for Development Studies Association Conference, University of Oxford.
July 2016: ‘What is sustainable cocoa? Constellations of commercial, socio-economic and environmental priorities associated with a polysemic concept.’ Journal contribution, currently under review.
July 2016: Cocoa & climate. Public engagement sessions on my research at Manchester Museum as part of the Climate Control Exhibition/European City of Science events.
June 2016: Looking beyond week: sessions for postgraduate researchers
at the Global Development Institute, UoM, encouraging stronger links with public/policy/practice and looking ahead to future employment. Chair and organiser.
June 2016: Masterclass and public lecture with Dr Hubert Escaith, Chief Statistician at WTO. Chair, co-blogger and co-organiser with Aarti Krishnan.
June 2016: What is sustainable cocoa? Constellations of commercial, socio-economic and environment priorities associated with a polysemic concept . Conference presenter and discussant at International Conference on Business, Policy and Sustainability; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
May 2016: Power and embeddedness in Global Production Networks: Perspectives from the cocoa sector. Conference presentation at Brown University/Manchester workshop.
May 2016: Save our chocolate! Blogpost on development@manchester, blog of the Global Development Institute, on the occasion of the World Cocoa Conference.
May 2016: Alumni session at Postgraduate Research Conference, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester. Chair and organiser, conference co-organiser.
April 2016: Feeding back doctoral findings to stakeholders. Reports, podcasts, slides and one-page summaries made available in English, Spanish and German.
April 2016: Masterclass and public lecture by Prof Tania Li, University of Toronto. Blogger and co-organiser with Prof Phil Woodhouse.
March 2016: Land and food security. Lecture for undergraduate ‘Environment and development’ module; part of teaching commitment involving weekly seminars.
March 2016: Full thesis: Cocoa sustainability and the environment: mapping stakeholder priorities and representations. Submitted on 14 December 2015, examined on 4 March 2016: no corrections (best possible outcome).
January 2016: Workshop between Society and Environment Reading Group and the State-Society Reading Group. University of Manchester. Discussant.
December 2015: Business and human rights. Joint session between Global Development Institute, Geography and Alliance Manchester Business School. Chair and organiser (ends 12-month tenure as co-ordinator of Global Production Networks, Trade and Labour research group).
June 2015: Public engagement sessions on my PhD: Presenting findings on Nicaragua, cocoa, certification and sustainability. Organiser and presenter, Ansbach, Germany, and Kuenzelsau, Germany.
May 2015: Cocoa sustainability initiatives, their conservation and carbon measures: mapping stakeholder priorities and representations. Poster presentation at Economic and Social Research Council’s Final Year Conference for finishing PhD researchers, University of Oxford, UK.
May 2015: Cocoa sustainability initiatives, their conservation and carbon measures: mapping stakeholder priorities and representations. Conference presentation at Postgraduate Research Conference, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester.
April 2015: Experiences of ESRC-funded PhD researchers at the University of Manchester: event for ESRC offer holders. Panelist, University of Manchester.
March 2015: Global narratives, local realities: Stakeholder drivers and representations in the Nicaraguan cocoa sector. Conference paper and presentation at Sheffield Institute for International Development’s Postgraduate Conference, Sheffield, UK.
March 2015: Thoughts on certification from the Nicaraguan cocoa sector. Presenter/discussant, Open Space, Manchester.
March 2015: Stakeholder priorities and stakeholder representations in cocoa sustainability initiatives. Chapters and presentation for Society and Environment Reading Group, University of Manchester.
February 2015: Supervision and the review process in the School of Environment, Education and Development. Presenter and organiser (part of on-going commitment within Postgraduate Research Support Network).
January 2015: What is sustainable cocoa? Conference paper and presentation at On Sustainability Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
January 2015: 
The story of Rainbow of Hope: Seven years of keeping children safe in Cape Town, South Africa, Told by Alison Alexander. Chair and organiser.
December 2014: Session for North West civil society organisations hosted by Department for International Development, University of Manchester. Co-organiser.
November 2014: Thinking about sustainability: interactive session on PhD findings. Martin Luther Kirche Manchester. Chair, presenter and organiser.
July 2014: Changing face of Green CSR. Conference Paper for Negotiating Environmental Governance Conference; Dodoma, Tanzania.
June 2014: Observations on the Nicaraguan cocoa sector. Stakeholder report (in Spanish).
March 2014: Fair trade and cocoa. Lecture for Master’s course Global Institutions, Trade and Development.
May 2013: Cocoa sustainability initiatives, their conservation and carbon measures. Poster presentation at Postgraduate Research Conference, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester.
Conference and research presentations (selection):
Sep 2016 – Co-authored with Aarti Krishnan: Global decisions and local realities: The politics and policies of upgrading and their implications in agricultural global production networks (working title). Development Studies Association Conference, Oxford.
May 2016 – Power and embeddedness in global production networks: thoughts from the cocoa sector. Brown University/Manchester Workshop.
Apr 2016 – Presentations and podcasts for stakeholders, EN, ES, DE.
May 2015 – Cocoa sustainability initiatives, their conservation and carbon measures: mapping stakeholder priorities and representations. Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Manchester.
Mar 2015 – Thoughts on certification. Open Space, Manchester.
Ongoing – Lectures/Interactions on my PhD research with interested public, e.g. June 2015 in Ansbach, July 2016 in Manchester.
etc.
Research publications (selection):
2017 – What is sustainable cocoa? Constellations of commercial, socio-economic and environmental priorities associated with a polysemic concept. GDI Working Paper.
2016 – Co-authored with Aarti Krishnan: Global decisions and local realities: The politics and policies of upgrading and their implications in agricultural global production networks. United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards Discussion Paper No. 7.
2016 – What is sustainable cocoa? Constellations of commercial, socio-economic and environment priorities associated with a polysemic concept . Conference paper.
2016 – Reports/Podcasts for stakeholders who kindly contributed to my PhD in EN, ES, DE.
2016 – Cocoa sustainability initiatives and the environment: mapping stakeholder drivers and representations. Doctoral thesis, University of Manchester.
2015 – Stakeholder drivers and stakeholder representations in cocoa sustainability initiatives: congruences and divergences. Conference paper.
2014 – The changing face of Green CSR in the chocolate sector. Conference paper.
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Research interests:
Sustainability and Solidarity 