About UsBirgit Peuker
Postdoctoral researcher, bmbf project
Dr. Birgit Peuker has been a postdoc in the junior research group “Food for Justice: Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy” (2019-2025) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since June, 2023.
She is a sociologist and wrote her doctoral thesis entitled “The Controversy over the Application of Genetic Engineering in Agriculture” at the Technical University of Dresden.
Research Interests
- Environmental sociology, technology studies
- Pragmatism and the sociology of practice
- Agriculture and social movements
- Sociology of knowledge
- Qualitative and quantitative methods
Recent Publications
- Potthof, Christof; Peuker, Birgit; Palme, Christoph; Schumacher, Anke (2023): Expert Opinion: Evaluation of the European Commission‘s study on new genomic techniques. Prepared on behalf of the Federal Agency for Nature.
Contact
Dr. Birgit Peuker
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies | HCIAS
Brunnengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Email: birgit.peuker(at)uni-heidelberg.de