Researcher

Stephanie Leder-Büttner

Institute: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Research area: Agriculture rural development & food security, Children, Culture, Discrimination, Environment and climate change, Gender equality, Immigration and emigration, International development cooperation & coordination, Learning, Natural resource management, Peace and inclusive societies, Policy development, Poverty reduction, Water and sanitation, Youth
Research region: Africa, Europe-Central Asia, Global
Open to collaboration with: Media, Other researchers, Practitioners and policy makers

About

Associate Professor (docent) and Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development at SLU with interests in feminist political ecology, water and food governance, agrarian change, gender and development research and geographical Education for Sustainable Development.

Stephanie Leder-Büttner leads two projects: a four-year Mobility Grant of FORMAS  for the project “Revitalizing community-managed irrigation systems in contexts of out-migration in Nepal” (2019-2025) with collaborations as visiting scientist/fellow at IDE (UK), UBC (Canada), SIAS (Nepal) and UNU-EHS (Germany), and a FORMAS Early Career Grant on "

From 2014-2017 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow for Gender, Poverty and Institutions at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Nepal, and led studies in inter- and transdisciplinary projects within the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Program “Water, Land and Ecosystems” in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Cologne, Germany. She studied geography, English, biology and educational sciences at the University of Cologne and the University of New Brunswick, Canada. For her PhD thesis, she conducted empirical research on Education for Sustainable Development in policy, textbooks and practice by examining geography teaching on water resources at secondary schools in Pune, India. Her book "Transformative Pedagogic Practice" is published with Springer in 2018.

Please visit her homepage: www.stephanieleder.com

 

Professional experience

Lecturing
Main supervisor of PhD
Supervision of Master’s students

Other experience

Collaboration with civil society organisations
Collaboration with government agencies
Collaboration with private sector

Personal institution page

Featured work

Participatory Gender Training for Community Groups. Experiences from Nepal. IWMI-media, 12 minute documentation

Publications

Water Security and Inclusive Water Governance in the Himalayas

New Angle Nepal journal of social science and public policy
Transformative Engagements with Gender Relations in Agriculture and Water Governance

New Angle Nepal journal of social science and public policy
Transformative Pedagogic Practice

Education for Sustainability
Intersectionality at the gender–agriculture nexus

Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations
Gender Transformative Impacts from Watershed Interventions: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study in the Bundelkhand Region of India

Transactions of the ASABE
Gender mainstreaming in agricultural and forestry institutions

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture
Critical Reflexivity in Political Ecology Research: How can the Covid-19 Pandemic Transform us Into Better Researchers?

Frontiers in Human Dynamics
COVID-19, gender, and small-scale farming in Nepal

Gender, Food and COVID-19
Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

Gender & Development
Theoretical Considerations on Pedagogic Practice and Its Transformative Potential

Education for Sustainability
The Transformative Potential of Pedagogic Practice

Education for Sustainability
Research Prospects and Strategies for Translating ESD in Pedagogic Practice

Education for Sustainability
Pedagogic Practice, ESD Principles and the Perspectives of Students, Teachers, and Educational Stakeholders

Education for Sustainability
Opportunities for Interpreting ESD Principles Through Argumentation in Pedagogic Practice

Education for Sustainability
Introduction: Education for Sustainable Development in India

Education for Sustainability
Education for Sustainable Development and Argumentation

Education for Sustainability
Education and Water Conflicts in Pune, India

Education for Sustainability
Academic Frameworks for Formal School Education and ESD Principles

Education for Sustainability
A Framework for Qualitative Geographical Education Research

Education for Sustainability
From women’s empowerment to food security: Revisiting global discourses through a cross-country analysis

Global Food Security