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Simon Diener

Profile

Simon Diener Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Contact

Links

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

Activities

  • Research Associate in Rural Sociology

  • Focus on Social & Environmental Sustainability and Resilience in Agriculture

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

Publications

  • Diener, S., Sprafke, T., Contzen, S. (2026). From Dirt to Soil: Enhancing Soil Connectivity Through Photovoice. Under Review

  • Sprafke, T., Diener, S. J., & Contzen, S. (2025). SOILSCAPE: Typology of archetype EU soil environments. SOILSCAPE Deliverable D1.3. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.19570158

Memberships

  • Swiss Anthropological Association (Member)

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