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Prof. Dr. Evelyn Markoni

Profile

Prof. Dr. Evelyn Markoni Dozentin Ernährungssoziologie

Contact

Links

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
    Fachbereich Food Science & Management
    Länggasse 85
    3052 Zollikofen
You can find more information on the German profile page.

Activities

  • Teaching and module responsibility

  • Acquisition, management and implementation of research and service projects

  • Sustainability activities at institutional level

  • Supervision of student research projects (Master's, Bachelor's and Term's theses)

  • Environmental and food sociology

  • Social sustainability

  • Sustainable food consumption and sustainable food systems

  • Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Business Ethics

  • Social change

  • Qualitative research methods, participatory action research, community development

Teaching

  • Master of Science in Life Sciences (BFH-HAFL & Master's programme cooperation in Switzerland, MSLS)

  • Bachelor of Science / Agriculture/ Food Science / Forest Science

  • BCUf164 Umwelt und Gesellschaft (Bachelor's module; Module responsibility)

  • AF-13 Quality Management, Traceability and Corporate Responsibility (Master's module, Module responsibility)

  • AF-12 Consumer Behavior, Markets and Trade (Master's module, until 2022)

  • B2 Management and Leadership for Life Sciences (Master's module)

  • BUUl052 Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility (Bachelor's module)

  • F6 Journal Club “Food and Nutrition Sciences” (Master's module)

  • F4 Sustainable Sourcing, Processing and Tracing of Food (Master's module, together with ZHAW)

Research

  • Sustainable food consumption and lifestyles

  • Social sustainability in food systems

  • Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Sustainablity

  • Sustainable transformation of urban food systems and post-growth societies

  • Social inequality in food consumption

  • Participatory action research to find innovative solutions together with different actors of the food system

  • Social transformation in the context of sustainable food consumption

CV

  • Since 2023 Professor for Food Sociology Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH - School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
  • Since 2023 Guest lectures at the University of Basel University of Basel
  • Since 2010 Research Associate for Sustainable Food Consumption and Entrepreneurship and project manager Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH - School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
  • Since 2019 Main expert supplementary subject "Technology and Environment" Vocational Matura, Canton of Bern
  • 10/2017-12/2017 Research Sabbatical & Visiting Professor Chulalongkorn University, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration Bangkok, Thailand
  • 6/2014 Erasmus Staff Mobility School of Political Science & Sociology, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
  • 9/2008-12/2008 Trainee Consulting Corporate Sustainability STEINBACH STRATEGIEN Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2011-2015 Doctorate in sociology University of Basel
  • 2008 Master's degree in Sociology, Business Administration and Media Studies University of Basel
  • Participatory Science Academy and the UZH Graduate Campus: Citizen Science Advanced: Designing and facilitating participatory research processes competently
  • Specialized course LCA: Life Cycle Assessment

Projects

  • TransChain - Digitalisierung und Transparenz in Lebensmittelwertschöpfungsketten (abgeschlossen)

  • Nachhaltiger Konsum und nachhaltige Lebensstile in der Schweiz: Ansprüche und Herausforderungen von an den Leitlinien der Nachhaltigkeit orientierte Konsumierende (abgeschlossen)

  • BugBias: Einfluss von VR auf den Konsum von Insekten (abgeschlossen)

Publications

Memberships

  • German Society for Environmental Sociology

  • Ambassador at #bärenhunger in Bern

  • SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative)

  • Helvetas Switzerland

  • Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Switzerland

  • Slow Food Switzerland

  • Board member Ernährungsforum Bern (nutrition forum)

Supervised theses

  • Recher, Brigitte Bern: Die lebendige Food-Hauptstadt 2018

  • Roth, Michelle Animal eats Animal, the new climate heroes: lnsects for sustainable feed production in Switzerland: what are the challenges? 2020

  • Ackermann, Lisa Bedeutung von Fleisch in der Schweizer Bevölkerung - Eine qualitative Studie mit jungen Schweizer Eltern 2019

  • Mettler, Rahel Reduktion von Food Waste bei Rindfleisch 2018

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Limited working proficiency
  • Spanish - Elementary proficiency
  • Viet Nam
  • Thailand
  • Ireland
  • Argentina
  • Germany
  • Switzerland