אודות
I am Full Professor in Sociology, specializing in culture, consumption, environment, sustainability and inequality. Since 2024 I serve as Vice President for Global Engagement at the university. I am honorary Reader at the University of Manchester and Docent at the University of Turku. Between 2017-2023 I served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Poetics.
פרסומים
Recent funded projects:
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Equitable resilience to heat: Modeling the consequences of community coordination and heat policy in two coastal cities (with Asaf Levanon, Maya Negev, Moira Zellner, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation 2023-2026);
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European inventory of societal values of culture as a basis for inclusive cultural policies in the globalizing world https://inventculture.eu/ (with a consortium of 9 countries, Horizon 2020 2020-2023);
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Environmental sustainability in immigrant households https://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/environmental-sustainability/ (with Sherilyn MacGregor and Catherine Walker, The Leverhulme Trust 2021-2024);
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The effects of culture and religion on food waste behavior in households (with Ofira Ayalon and Keren Kaplan-Mintz, Israel Science Foundation 2020-2023).
Please see more details under RESEARCH.
A quick glance at recent research:
Household sustainability in Manchester
Smart cities and creativity symposium
Panel discussion on intersecting crises and sustainability (in Hebrew, min. 24:30)
השכלה
PhD Sociology, UC Berkeley
תחומי מחקר
Equitable resilience to heat: Modeling the consequences of community coordination and heat policy in two coastal cities (BSF grant 2023-2026, with Asaf Levanon, Maya Negev, and Moira Zellner); European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies in the Globalizing World (INVENT) (Horizon 2020 grant 2020-2023 with consortium) https://inventculture.eu/; Environmental sustainability in immigrant households (The Leverhulme Trust grant 2021-2024 with Sherilyn MacGregor); Environmental The Effects of Culture and Religion on Food Waste Behavior in Households (Israel Science Foundation grant 2020-2023, with Ofira Ayalon and Keren Kaplan-Mintz)