Having graduated in Cultural Studies and Social Science (BA Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth) in 2011 and Sustainability Science (MSc, Leuphana University Lueneburg) in 2014, Esther Meyer’s research interests as a PhD Student at the Faculty of Sustainability, Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation, Leuphana University Lueneburg, focuses on the interface between cultural, social and sustainable science.

During her master’s degree, while working as a research assistant and tutor at the Center for Methodas and the Institute for Ethics and transdisciplinary Sustainability Science, Esther developed expertise in transdisciplinary research, methodology, and methods.

Her PhD research project “Complexity or Control? Paradigms for Sustainable Development (CCP),” is designed to explore the entanglements of transformative and transdisciplinary Sustainability Science using a broader discourse characterized by modern ideas of economy, with focus on the constitution of societal problems such as scarcity of phosphorus as a possible case. Thus, her research project contributes to a base on which to explore and develop alternative transformative politics and transdisciplinary methodologies.