Collaborate with the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking on your Master’s Thesis
Are you a master’s student in a social sciences or humanities field? And are you interested in exploring the intersection between research and practice for writing your master’s thesis? Perhaps your current studies involve anthropology, environmental humanities, organizational innovation and entrepreneurship, or something else? If so, we want to hear from you!
At the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) in Læderstræde 20, Copenhagen K, we are looking to collaborate with a graduate student on their master’s thesis project. CApE is a humanistic research center. Through partnerships and cross-sectoral engagements, CApE focuses on bringing humanistic perspectives into public conversations on green transformations. In doing so, we seek to bring nuanced perspectives to our understanding of ecological crises and to how we create meaningful futures amid changing climate conditions.
We are especially interested in someone who can help us explore ‘applied thinking’ in CApE’s activities with an emphasis on how humanities research in environment and climate influences actors in the green transition. We have some preliminary ideas about our wishes for a specific research focus. However, we are curious to hear your suggestions and interests as well, and together we will define a relevant research focus.
What we can offer
- You will become part of a vibrant professional house in Læderstræde 20 and have the opportunity to expand your network across green sectors in Copenhagen and Denmark
- Access to an exciting field including audiences and users of outputs from national think tanks, research centers, foundations and NGOs, all working with a green agenda
- A continuous point of contact in CApE and the opportunity to set up feedback loops on your project with other CApE researchers and practitioners
- A shared desk in our city center office
- Openness to ideas for project development and critical input from you
We hope that you have emerging experience with or interest in
- Research, cultural, and environmental policy
- The relationship between humanities research and societal changes in different Danish contexts User experience and impact
- Project design, including qualitative methods
For CApE, the purpose of this collaboration is to contribute to interdisciplinary learning in environmental humanities at the graduate level. In addition, building on the student’s research, we hope to learn more about the impact of the center and thereby develop our practice. With this objective in mind, we expect that the student will present their research insights during the research phase, as well as their final results upon completion of their thesis. Furthermore, we ask that the student prepares a short brief (approximately 2 pages) for CApE, which will contribute to our continued organizational development.
Do you have any questions about a potential collaboration, please contact Anna Kirstine Schirrer, PhD in anthropology and postdoc at CApE, email: anks@ hum.ku.dk
Please send a short description (max. 300 words) of your motivation for a CApE thesis project collaboration no later than by 31 October, 2025 to the same email address (anks@hum.ku.dk) with ‘Master’s Thesis Collaboration’ in the subject line.
We wish to develop a formal agreement with you on our collaboration before the end of 2025. This will help to get to know each other more and align expectations before actively commencing our collaboration around a project design in the winter of 2026.