I am a second and a half year PhD student at East Carolina’s Integrated Coastal Sciences program. Currently, I am developing a proposal which is looking at pro-environmental behavior through a technology lens, constructing a grounded Agent-based model. As an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in economics and training in hydrogeology and coastal sciences, I am working on issues related to climate change, sustainability and resilience, at the intersection of the natural and socio-economic systems. Although I am pursuing an academic degree, I am a proponent of actionable science and like to develop solutions in close collaboration with the communities that are part of my research. I firmly believe that we as scientists have several functions, one of them being to serve the communities we are working in. This is another reason for my intention to bring a continued focus to outreach and public engagement throughout my research pursuits, to foster pro-environmental behavior and community cohesion.
At my previous university, the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, I have been working on the REdMig project, a collaboration with the University of Hamburg. My research focus has been on non-monetary benefits of education. Hereby I have been analyzing the role of education in bridging geographical distances using the German panel dataset SOEP (socio-economic panel).
You can find my conference contributions in the following. If you wish to receive any of my working papers, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Publications:
Education and Social Support: Do Migrants Benefit as much as Natives?, Jana Brandt and Kyra Selina Hagge, CMS 8, 41 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-020-00199-w
Working Papers:
Spatial Dispersion of Social Networks: The Realized Ability to Bridge Geographical Distances, Kyra Hagge and Jana Brandt, Under Review.
Nearer Kin, More Support? Residential Mobility and Spatial Dispersion of Kin Support Networks: Effects on Social Support, Kyra Hagge and Diana Schacht, In Preperation.
(Copies of these working papers can be obtained upon request).
Conference Contributions:
Presentation AGU Fall Meeting 2020, "A framework to support the classification of virtual reality experiences in environmental education", December 7-December 17, online everywhere.
Presentation "Spatial Dispersion of Social Networks: The Realized Ability to Bridge Geographical Distances", 2nd North American Social Network Conference (NASN), November 27-December 1, 2018, Washington, D.C., USA.
Poster "Spatial Dispersion of Social Networks: The Realized Ability to Bridge Geographical Distances", 6th EARLI-SIG 13 & 2nd InZentIM Conference, August 27-29, 2018, Essen, Germany.
Presentation "Spatial Dispersion of Social Networks: The Realized Ability to Bridge Geographical Distances", 13th SOEP User Conference, July 19-20, 2018, Berlin, Germany.