Marius Korsnes
Discipline:
Culture, Environment and Sustainability
Now: Development, Environment and Cultural Change
Grade:
Master's
Graduation:
2012
Position:
Associate Professor
Employer:
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU (ntnu.edu)
– What are the most important aspects of your job?
– I work as an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at NTNU in Trondheim. The most important tasks I have are to conduct and communicate research on sustainable food systems, sufficiency, and post-growth futures. At the moment I am leading the five-year project MidWay, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, which explores the concept of sufficiency through the cases of meat and milk production and consumption in China. I also lead the project LimEATS together with a colleague, which examines planetary boundaries and social foundations for just urban food systems in Norway, and I co-direct the Gemini Centre for Post-Growth Futures, a strategic collaboration between NTNU, NTNU Social Research, the University of Oslo, and SINTEF. Across these projects, my research brings together science and technology studies, practice theory, and consumption studies to understand how food systems can be transformed in more sustainable and sufficient directions.
– What do you like best about your job?
– What I like the most is the opportunity to spend time understanding more about our society and the way we live our lives; and what the way we live means in terms of transitioning towards more sustainable lifestyles. I also like the flexibility that academia offers in terms of setting up the work day.
– How is the education from The Faculty of Humanities relevant in this job?
– My education from Centre for Development and the Environment has provided very useful perspectives on inequalities in the world in terms of income, gender, environment and climate. I learned that it is important to ask questions about why our planet looks the way it does today and what we can change in order to make our societies more equal, fair and sustainable in the future.
– What’s your best tip for new students who are concerned about their job opportunities after graduation?
– Be proactive, be bold, do not give up, believe in yourself and don’t panic.