Members

The Nordic Network for Sustainable Consumption (Nonesco) is a network for Nordic scholars interested in  sustainable consumption, everyday life and social change, founded in 2020.

Here are the members of the network (in alphabetical order):

Anne Sofie Møller Askholm, Aalborg University

Devrim Umut Aslan, Lund University

Maira Babri, Örebro University School of Business

Agnese Bankovska, University of Helsinki

Francesco Colona, Linköping University

Nils Ehrenberg, Aalto University

Patricia Eustachio Colombo is a doctoral student at the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet. Her research revolves around exploring relationships between food systems, the environment and health mainly through optimization analyses and intervention research. She is also involved in research where she models the health and environmental impacts of dietary changes on a population level. Furthermore, Patricia is contributing to the development of a common research programme between Karolinska Institutet and Makerere University in Uganda, with focus on critical health challenges within the overall framework of the SDGs. Contact: patricia.eustachio.colombo@ki.se

Freja Friis, Aalborg University

Anders Rhiger Hansen is a senior researcher in sociology at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. His previous research has focused primarily on households’ energy consumption practices and energy ‘prosumption’, but he is also engaged in discussions on theories of practice and sustainable consumption. Contact: arhansen@build.aau.dk and website

Arve Hansen is a postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. He has a PhD in Human Geography and approaches consumption at the intersections between systems of provision and everyday practices. He coordinates the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies, and much of his research has focused on Asia, mainly Vietnam, studying changing consumption patterns (mainly transport and food) in processes of rapid development. The coming years will see him focus more on Norway through projects on meat (MEATigation 2020-2024) and sustainable consumption (Include, 2020-2027). Contact: arve.hansen@sum.uio.no and website

Tullia Jack, Malmö University

Tuija Kajoskoski is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. Her PhD dissertation focuses on social impacts of the energy transition. Her other research interests include sustainable consumption practices and sustainable wellbeing. Contact: tuija.kajoskoski@helsinki.fi.

Sarah Kollnig is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Service Studies, Lund University. She holds a PhD in Human Ecology and looks at consumption through the lens of social inequalities. She has ample experience of doing ethnographic fieldwork in Bolivia and currently focuses on sustainability and inequalities in the Swedish context. Contact: sarah.kollnig@ism.lu.se

Marius Korsnes is a Researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. He has a PhD in Science, Technology and Society (STS) from NTNU about wind energy in China. His postdoc focused on the role of prosumers in China, leading to a book about China’s energy transition. He currently researches Norway’s energy- and climate transition with a focus on controversies and participation, and he also looks at the role of meat consumption in Norway (MEATigation 2020-2024). Contact: marius.korsnes@ntnu.no and website

Laura Krumm is a PhD Fellow at Copenhagen Business School. Her research interests include sustainable consumption, consumer behaviour, behavioural economics, health and well-being. Contact: lk.msc@cbs.dk

Eliisa Kylkilahti is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry and at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainable Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki. Her research interests include socio-economic sustainability of consumption, climate-wise everyday life at home, innovations and cultural change, especially among young people. Contact: eliisa.kylkilahti@helsinki.fi

Senja Laakso is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainable Science (HELSUS). Her research focuses on sustainable consumption and the ways daily consumption practices are shaped by established services, technologies and infrastructures, by shared norms and conventions, as well as by institutional and political rules. Contact: senja.laakso@helsinki.fi and website

Tomi Lehtimäki, University of Helsinki

Line Valdorff Madsen is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. Her previous research has focused on residential energy consumption, home comfort and everyday life in a practice theoretical lens. Her research interests include gender, smart energy technologies, household energy consumption and sustainable consumption practices. Contact: lvm@build.aau.dk and website

Daria Morozova, Aalborg University

Nicklas Neuman, PhD, is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, Uppsala University. His main interest is eating behavior, for example food’s relationship to social conventions, routines and structural constrains, but also the role of biological dispositions. This is applied to questions such as environmental sustainability, health and social change. He has further published on topics such as foodwork and gender, food and national identity and eating out.  Nicklas is the editor of Mat och ätande: Sociologiska perspektiv (Food and eating: Sociological perspectives), Sweden’s first university textbook on the sociology of food and eating, published 2019 by Studentlitteratur. Contact: nicklas.neuman@ikv.uu.se

Anne Nielsen, University of Copenhagen

Dr Aleksi Ojala is a music educator and musician currently working as a music lecturer at the University of Helsinki. He is affiliated both at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainable Science (HELSUS). His research interests include (musical) creativities, posthumanism, critical pedagogy, collaborative learning and blended learning. Ojala has held presentations in numerous international conferences and published in academic peer-reviewed publications. He is also one of the four convenors of the International Society for Music Education’s Popular Music Education Special Interest Group that aims to provide a home for a scholarship, practice, and discussion of Popular Music Education from around the world. In his post-doc research project — named #WeOrTheWorld? — Ojala aims at harnessing the power of the arts to foster social change towards a more sustainable future. Contact: aleksi.ojala@helsinki.fi

Jenny Rinkinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki. Contact: jenny.rinkinen@helsinki.fi

Maria Sandberg is a PhD student at Hanken School of Economics. Her research focuses on transitions towards sufficiency, degrowth, and environmentally sustainable production-consumption systems. Contact: maria.sandberg@hanken.fi and website

Josefine L. Sarkez-Knudsen is a doctoral student at the Division of Ethnology, Lund University. Her doctoral project engages with civic response to climate change. More specifically she looks at alternative farming practices i.e. permaculture as a form of climate activism enrolled in everyday life. Contact: Josefine_londorf.sarkez-knudsen@kultur.lu.se

Jesse Schrage is a Doctoral fellow at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen, Norway. Before starting his PhD, his research focused on translating the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement into local-level targets, and aimed to understand more specifically what these deep emission cuts meant for cities and municipalities in Scandinavia. In his PhD, his work builds on this previous work is concerned with the overlap between city-level policy making and everyday consumption, along with the political feasibility of stringent climate measures.  Contact: Jesse.Schrage@uib.no

Ulrikke Wethal, University of Oslo

Carolin Zorell is postdoctoral researcher in Political Science at Örebro University, working in the University’s interdisciplinary Food & Health program. Her research interest is in the preconditions and dynamics of political consumerism, with special reference to food consumption and sustainability. Currently, she studies how contextual arrangements, self-perceptions and peer-group influences (e.g., through talk, imitation) form non-sustainable vs. sustainable consumption. In her research, she connects insights from Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Economics and combines different quantitative and qualitative methods, including surveys, observation studies, and experiments. Contact: carolin.zorell@oru.se and website.