Simon Diener

Profile

Simon Diener Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
    Fachbereich Agronomie
    Länggasse 85
    3052 Zollikofen

Research

  • rural sociology

  • environmental anthropology

  • Social and ecological sustainability in Swiss agriculture

  • Adaptation and transformation in Swiss agriculture

  • Local environmental knowledge in Swiss agriculture and its relation to climate adaptation

  • Qualitative social research (interviews, ethnography, visual sociology/anthropology)

CV

  • 2024-today Research Associate Bern University of Applied Sciences (HAFL)
  • 2021-2022 Scientific Assistant BSS Volkswirtschaftliche Beratung
  • 2022-2024 MSc in Social Science (research), qualitative track Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • 2017-2021 BSc in Economics, Major Economics and Minor Social Science Universität Bern

Projects

Awards

The CSDS Thesis Excellence Award recognizes one outstanding master’s thesis
and one outstanding research master’s thesis on sustainability.

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Professional working proficiency
  • Dutch - Limited working proficiency
  • Switzerland
  • Netherlands