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Susanne Boerner

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-565X

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climate change and mental health, ancestral wisdom, decolonising human-nature relations, urban wellbeing, nature-based spirituality, youth agency, emotional resilience, disaster risk, climate change adaptation, participatory research for co-production

20152025

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Dr Susanne Börner is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on youth everyday agency, emotions and urban well-being in the context of interconnected urban crises. She also researches on the interconnections of climate change and mental health as well as decolonial perspectives on human-nature relations, individual and planetary healing and ancestral wisdom. Susanne is particularly interested in the experiences of those growing up and living ‘at the margins’, such as children and young people as well as multi-generational contexts of knowledge generation. Susanne has a particular interest in participatory knowledge co-production. Her Marie Curie Global Fellowship (2019-2023) explored how young people in Brazil can live better with and develop long-term (emotional) resilience in contexts of resource scarcity and disaster risk. As theme lead for the research theme “ Sustainable, Liveable and Resilient Cities” at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing she also aims to generate pathways for integrating youth knowledge into public policies for a healthy urban development. Here, she aims to learn from community-based knowledges, lived experiences, knowings, beings, and everyday practices to generate positive change.

Susanne is founder of White Owl Shamanism Shamanic Healing and Counselling in Birmingham. She is also a member of the Code Red Alliance, conference officer for the RGS-IBG research group Geographies of Childhood, Youth and Families (GCYFRG) and an ordinary member of the RGS-IBG Participatory Geographies Research Group.

Education/Academic qualification

Master of Environmental Science

Sept 2011 → Jun 2013

Doctor of Social Science, Goethe University Frankfurt

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  6. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  7. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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