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Department of Geography Space, Nature and Society

Zélie Stauffer
Zélie Stauffer
PhD candidate

Space, Nature and Society

Tel.: 044 63 55243
Room number: Y25 L 34
zelie.stauffer@uzh.ch

Research interests

My main interests are in interdisciplinary fields dealing with human-nature interaction:

  • human perception of nature
  • social acceptance of environmental projects
  • human-nature relationship
  • role of narratives and language in the constitution of environmental values.

My PhD project aims to elaborate a relational theory of environmental values, by mixing empirical social science and environmental ethics. 

My completed studies have given me the necessary skills to tackle problems that cut across several disciplines, in particular environmental sciences, sociology and literature.

Education

2024 - now: PhD Candidate in Human Geography. Project: Developing a quantitative tool to measure human-nature relations of bird-watchers. 

2023-2024: Master thesis in collaboration with WSL (Birmensdorf) in the "social science for landscape research group". Project: Reintroduction of European Bison (bison bonasus) in the Swiss Jura: social acceptance and future areas of conflict.

2022-2024: Master degree in Quantitative environmental sciences (major) and French linguistics and literature (minor).

2018 - 2022: Bachelor degree in French linguistics and literature (major) and biology (minor).

Organised Workshops

03.05.2024: Littérature et écologie: pour un dialogue au profit de l'environnement. This one-day workshop invited students to explore the theme of ecopoetics in different ways, with four guests - experts - from different disciplines. The day ended with a general discussion moderated by myself.