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Education | Katharina Bitzan completed her BA in geography at the University of Cambridge in 2013, focusing both on aspects of physical and human geography. She is pursuing an MSc in socio-ecological economics and policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and completed a semester abroad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined DITSL in order to conduct her MSc thesis in the frame of the RELOAD project. |
Career | Katharina has completed internships in Kenya and Austria. Alongside her studies, she was engaged in student organizations focused on environmental concerns including deforestation, recycling and carbon management. |
Research |
Her main research interests are the interactions and interrelationships within socio-ecological systems and global food systems. Her MSc research was undertaken as part of on-going transdisciplinary/action research with PhD student Katharine Tröger. Katharina specifically conducted an actor analysis with a focus on gender, to characterize the social landscape in which people contributing to small-scale pineapple supply chains in Uganda create their livelihoods. |
Experience Abroad |
Kenya and Uganda |