Kunze Iris, Dr. (former team member)
Tel: +43/1 47654 7280
Email: iris.kunze(at)boku.ac.at
Education
2005-2008
University of Münster, Germany
Ph. Dissertation: „Soziale Innovationen für zukunftsfähige Lebensweisen. Gemeinschaften und Ökodörfer als experimentierende Lernfelder für sozial-ökologische Nachhaltigkeit.“ in Geography, Sociology
Scholarship of the German Environmental Foundation (DBU) and of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Field research projects in India and Scotland
1997-2004
University of Münster, Germany
Geography Diploma (side subjects: Sociology, Politics)
Work experience
Since October 2011
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Coordinator of the Doctoral School of Sustainable Development and Post-doc-research fellow
project title: “Concepts of Human-Nature Relationship and their Applicability in Sustainability Processes”
2009-2011
University of Münster, Germany
Researching and teaching fellow at the Department of Sociology: coordination of the social-ecological community research
Since 2007
Universität Münster, Germany und University of Teacher Education St.Gallen, Switzerland
Teaching fellow at the Department of Sociology
2001-2004
Universität Münster, Germany
Student working fellow at the Department of Sociology
social community research
1998
Internship at FORUM GmbH, a service and consulting enterprise to public and private institutions in the field of urban and regional development in Oldenburg: projects about sustainable urban planning with the governments in Bremen and lower Saxony
1996
„Voluntary Ecological Year“ (FÖJ) (Sept.´95- Aug.´96) for the state of lower Saxony at the Youth Environmental Office in Oldenburg of the German brunch „friends of the earth“ (BUND):
self-responsible management of office, seminars, political
Further activities
Since 2008
board member of the interdisciplinary Institute for Integral Studies (IFIS), Freiburg
2011
Co-initiator of the Transition Town-Group, Münster
Since 2004
Member of the environmental sociology
1996-2000
German Federal Coordination of student environmental work (BSÖ), connected with the global Network GOSEA (Global Organization of Students for Environmental Action):executive secretary; co-organization of summits; advisor for the issue sustainability and “Agenda 21”; member of the editorial department of the magazine
1996-1999
Local Agenda 21 of the town Muenster: official representative of the student alliance in the resort „settlement, region, town development and traffic“. Initiative of the student circle for sustainable development