Personal profile
Short presentation
The PhD project of Maria Toft is part of the interdisciplinary research project funded by the Velux Foundation:
Collective Movements and Pathways to a Sustainable Society (COMPASS)
In the PhD project, Maria seeks to answer why and how collective environmental movements transform norms and behavior in Denmark. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Department of Political Science, the Department of Anthropology and several practitioners within the field, i.e. the Danish Stop Food Waste movement, the National Union of Ecovillages, the Copenhagen Food Co-op, etc. Maria applies a wide range of methods, from quantitative network analyses, national surveys, ethnographical fieldwork to case based interviewing. The theoretical field covers areas within governance, sustainability, climate politics, political behavior, comparative politics, network theory and social movements.
Maria Toft has an academic background in Political Science from the Department of Political Science at University of Copenhagen and from the specialization in ‘International energy’ at Sciences Po in Paris. Thus, her academic knowledge relates the political changes within environment, energy systems and sustainability.
During the fall 2017, Maria will be teaching Danish speaking master students in a course called ’Klimapolitik fra globalt til lokalt niveau’ together with her supervisor Prof. Jens Hoff.
Education/Academic qualification
University of Copenhagen
Award Date: 5 Dec 2015