Leder, Stephanie

Visiting Scientist

Profile
  • INSTITUTE:
    UNU-EHS
    OFFICE:
    Environment and Migration: Interactions and Choices Section (EMIC)
    E-MAIL:
    leder@ehs.unu.edu
    NATIONALITY:
    Germany

    Research Interests

    • Agrarian change
    • Critical gender and development research
    • Feiminist political ecology
    • Geographical education for Sustainable Development
    • Water governance

    Education

    • ​PhD, Human Geography, University of Cologne, Germany
    • Masters in Geography, English, Biology, Educational Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany​

    Appointments

    • 2019 to date: Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
    • 2019 to date: Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
    • 2017 to 2019: Postdoc at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
    • 2014-2017: Postdoctoral Fellow for Gender, Poverty and Institutions at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Nepal, and the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Program “Water, Land and Ecosystems”

    Biographical Statement

    Stephanie Leder received a four-year Mobility Starting Grant of FORMAS, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning for the project “Revitalizing community-managed irrigation systems in contexts of out-migration in Nepal” (2019-2023) with collaborations as visiting scientist/fellow at IDE (UK), UBC (Canada), SIAS (Nepal) and UNU-EHS (Germany).

    From 2014-2017 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow for Gender, Poverty and Institutions at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Nepal, and led studies in inter- and transdisciplinary projects within the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Program “Water, Land and Ecosystems” in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

    She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Cologne, Germany. She studied geography, English, biology and educational sciences at the University of Cologne and the University of New Brunswick, Canada. For her PhD thesis, she conducted empirical research on Education for Sustainable Development in policy, textbooks and practice by examining geography teaching on water resources at secondary schools in Pune, India.

    Her book “Transformative Pedagogic Practice” is published with Springer 2018. A 12-minute documentation on “Participatory Gender Training for Community Groups. Experiences from Nepal” can be viewed at IWMI-media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0snUnE4mc&t=1s

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