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Dr. Britta Acksel

(c) Peter Herrmann

Wuppertal Institute for Environment, Climate, Energy
Cultural Anthropology

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
October 2024 – September 2027

E-Mail: britta.acksel@wupperinst.org

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Britta Acksel is a cultural anthropologist interested in current sustainability efforts. She holds a doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt and ethnographically explored sustainability governance in/of cities. As research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen her work focused on Anthropology of Policy, Human-Environment Relations, Energy Transition and Participation. After an interlude as postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media Studies (RUB), she works as scientific advisor for methods of transformation research at the Wuppertal Institute for Environment, Climate, Energy.

Selected Publications

YAS Project