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Maria Kaufmann is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, focusing on international comparative research areas such as climate change adaptation, energy transition, and alternative economic systems like degrowth. Her research aims to contribute critically to the 'justice turn' in sustainability transformations by analyzing the role of justice discourses. She assesses how current governance approaches either reproduce or alleviate injustices and investigates how alternative economic discourses can facilitate these transformations. Maria is also the co-coordinator of the Research HotSpot TransAct at the Institute Management Research (IMR), where she collaborates to shape research on sustainability transformations. Her work has been recognized with the 'IMR Researcher of the Year' award in 2024 and she has published in leading journals, including Global Environmental Change and Journal of Environmental Management. Her teaching experience includes courses at both the Bachelor's and Master's levels in subjects like Globalising Worlds and Environmental Justice, along with supervising theses.
Radboud University • Nijmegen, Netherlands
Conducting research on sustainability transformations and teaching courses at the Bachelor's and Master's levels.
Applies to Research Master's in Linguistics and Communication Sciences (Centre for Language Studies/Department of Language and Communication).