Ramona Haegele (she/ her) is a postdoctoral researcher in the project MARBLOOM at the University of Helsinki. MARBLOOM examines, from a social scientific perspective, the changing relationship between humans and the environment in connection to algal blooms, which represents an increasingly global phenomenon transforming marine and freshwater ecologies. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS), a more-than-human approach, and the notion of ‘ecologies of practices’, it employs participatory, sensory, and multimodal methods to challenge human-centred narratives of blooms as harmful and to analyse multispecies and multisectoral networks linked to global (climate) change.
Prior to joining the University of Helsinki, she worked as a researcher and lecturer on marine STS, groundwater scarcity, and climate justice at the University of Hamburg, the University of Würzburg and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). Ramona’s broader research sits at the intersection of STS, new materialism, political geography, and social anthropology, with interests in more-than-human entanglements, intersectionality at sea, sensory methodologies, and decolonising research methods. Her doctoral work in sociology at the University of Bonn investigates processes of interdisciplinary and transcultural knowledge production in marine carbon observations, with a socio-material focus on Brazilian and German research teams.
