Alina Brad

Alina Brad

Mag. Dr.

20142024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research interests

International environmental and resource politics, global environmental governance, international climate policy, carbon dioxide removal technologies, biofuels, social dynamics of land-use change

Teaching

Seminars for graduate and under-graduate students, Department of Political Science, Vienna

International Politics, International Environmental Governance

Political Ecology and Environmental Conflicts

Social Movements and Transformation of Capitalism

Introduction to Scientific Work, Writing of Bachelor Thesis, Research Practice

Urban development and global social inequality (Department of International Development)

Lecture series for graduate and under-graduate students, Department of Political Science, Vienna

Climate Crisis and Social-Ecological Transformation

The European Union Ten Years After the Crisis

Social Theory for Political Scientists

Sustainable Development – Magic Bullet or Green Myth? (Department of Sociology, Vienna)

Bachelor theses

17 during winter term 2020/21 (completed), 20 during winter term 2021/22 (ongoing)

Supervisions of master’s theses (selection, ongoing)

Arnecke, Mel: Gegenwart und Zukunft hegemonialer Wohnungspolitik: Eine historisch-materialistische Analyse der Wohnungspolitik in Hamburg und Wien

Röck, Tobias: A political ecological assessment of the reform of the EU Agricultural Policy (CAP) (completed with distinction)

Stockdreher, Paul: DIE LINKE as a Pioneer of a Socio-Ecological Transformation? (completed)

Klamminger, Dagmar: Sustainability and the Politics of Food Systems – a discourse analysis

Neuberger, Rene: Transforming our World? The Implementation of the Agenda 2030 in the EU

Braunstorfer, Verena: The EU Energy Policy and the Renewable Energy Sector in Austria

Lenders, Madita Palmöl

Dinger, Jonas: Social Entrepreneurship – Promise of a Better World (completed with distinction)

 

 

Administrative duties

Member of the Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna, 2021 – ongoing

Member of Appointment Committee, University of Vienna, 2021 – ongoing

Member of the Political Science Study Program Conference, University of Vienna, 2019 – ongoing

Member of Master and Habilitation committees, University of Vienna, 2017 – ongoing

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board BMBF-funded project “Bioeconomy and Social Inequalities”

Memberships

Co-founder of the EnJust Network for Environmental Justice

Sounding Board, Dialogue for Change (Federal Environment Agency, Austria)

Working Group Social-Ecological Transformation at the Climate Change Center, Austria

Austrian Political Science Association

Editor at the Austrian Journal for Development Studies

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

Education/Academic qualification

General Higher Education Entrance Examination

Award Date: 1 Jan 2003

Final Apprenticeship Examination

Award Date: 1 Sep 1997

Summer schools/workshops, Political Ecology and Sustainability Transformation, Helmholtz-Institute Jena

2018

Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.)

Oct 2010Jun 2016

Summer school/workshops , Political Ecology and Sustainability Transformation, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)

2012

Summer schools/workshops, Political Ecology and Sustainability Transformation, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)

2011

Political Science, Diploma (Mag. phil.)

Mar 2003Nov 2008

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