Projects / Research

Since August 2003 Scientific employee with the research project “Blocked Transition? Creating New Thing and Action Space for Sustainable Regional Development” to adapt the subproject “Nature-Culture-Spaces” by order of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (social-ecological research) at Lueneburg University.

October 2002 – March 2003 Scientific employee with the project “Gender Mainstreaming – Relevance and challenge for environment and nature associations” in order of Deutscher Naturschutzring at Lueneburg University.

October 2002 – December 2002 Expertise ”Forestry and Gender – International perspectives” in the framework of the research project “Feminist disputes with relevant actors for forestry usage and protection, their relationship with forestry nature and with the connected consequences for their professional labor organisation and structure” at Lueneburg University.

June 2002 – December 2003 Organisation and realization of the mentoring programm ”Actions to realize equal opportunities for women in research and teaching” in order of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture at the Faculty of Environmental Science at Lueneburg University.

April 2001 – July 2002 Scientific employee with the project “Gender and Sustainability” in the framework of an environmental research plan of the Umweltbundesamt at Lueneburg University.

June 2001 – July 2001 Exploratory study “The understanding of nature in work and programmatic of selected nature and environmental protection associations” in order of the Environmental Research Center Leipzig-Halle GmbH (social-ecological research).

October 2000 – March 2001 Scientific employee with the project “Gender and sustainability” in order of the Federal Ministry of education and research (social-ecological research) at Lueneburg University.

University teaching

Fall Semester 2004/05 Lectureship in the framework of the transdisciplinary case study “Change in space: Shrinking processes as challenge – visions in the region Dessau-Wittenberg-Bitterfeld” at Lueneburg University.

Fall Semester 2002/03 Lectureship with the project seminar “Sustainable dealings with nature in national and international perspective. The example forest” at Lueneburg University.

Summer Semester 2002 Organisation of the lecture series “Interdisciplinary forum: Gender and Sustainability” at Lueneburg University.

Education

Since 2003 doctorate “Connection of sociental relations to nature and gender” (working title), Supervisor Prof. Dr. Hofmeister

October 1996 – November 2000 Tanja Moelders studied Environmental Science at Lueneburg University with the main focus on Ecology and nature conservancy.

Degree: Environmental Scientist, Grade: 1,3 (very good)
Final paper: “Potentials of conflict minimization of environmental planning –The planned offshore wind energy park ’Sky 2000’ serving as example”. Grade: 1,1 (very good)

Summer Semester 1998 Semester abroad in Canada

1996 Midterm Exam, Grade: 1,25 (very good),
then starting the main course of the newly designed course of study Environmental Science

October 1994 – October 1996 she studied Applied Cultural Sciences at Lueneburg University with the main subjects Ecology and Environmental Education as well as Economic and Social Geography

Membership

Since 2005 “Cross group social nature relationship” in the framework of the social-ecological research of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Since 2003 “Network Caring Economy”

Since 2003 Steering committee of “genanet – Central office for gender equity and sustainability”.

Since 2003 “Working group feminist nature understandings” of the working group “women” in the forum Environment and development.

Since 2003 “Cross group Gender” in the framework of the social-ecological research of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Since 2001 “Working group women” in the forum Environment and Development, since 2004 as coordinator.

Since 2000 “KUNZ Network of the Environmental and Cultural Sciences”