Mai Abbas
Doctoral Candidate (Extern)
Mai Abbas is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture, Department of Societal Transition and Agriculture, at the University of Hohenheim. She holds a master degree in environmental protection and agricultural food production (Envirofood) by the University of Hohenheim. In her master thesis she explored the Role of Alternative Food Networks in contributing to Food Sovereignty in West Bank Palestine. Her current research addresses agroecology, ethics of care and food related knowledge.
Urban Agroecology for health and wellbeing
- Ethics of care
- Agroecology
- Food sovereignty
- Sustainable food systems
- Alternative food networks
- Participatory action research
| Since 10/2021 | Doctoral candidate at Hohenheim University |
| 04/2021 - 12/2022 | Early stage researcher, Rachel Carson centre, Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich |
| 02/2021 - 06/2022 | Adjunct lecturer, Tallinn university, Estonia |
| 11/2018 - 04/2021 | Early stage researcher, Centre for Agroecology, water and resilience, Coventry university, UK |
| 2017 - 2018 | Research assistant at Department of Societal Transition and Agriculture, University of Hohenheim |
| 10/2017 - 12/2017 | Intern, Department of Applied nutritional psychology, Hohenheim University |
| 2014 - 2017 | M.Sc. in Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| 07.06.2021: | The Pre-Pasteurian Sensations of Fermentation, online workshop given together with Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova at the “Spaces of possibility: communities and places in times of social and environmental uncertainty “CONFEX, organized by RECOMS : resourceful & resilient communities, a Marie-Curie ITN. |
| 19.09.2019: | Urban agroecology for health and wellbeing, poster presentation held at the Topentag conference “Filling gaps and removing traps for sustainable resources development", organized by Kassel university, Germany |
