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Mai Abbas

Biography

‍Mai was a RECOMS fellow based at Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany

Mai's PhD aims at understanding the impact of urban agroecological practices on transition into motherhood in respect to: recalling and reproducing food related knowledge, healthy eating and wellbeing and change in relations of care in respect to body nourishment. Her target group is pregnant women and/or women with children up to 2 years old in Coventry, UK.

Mai completed her master’s degree in Envirofood: Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production at Hohenheim University in Germany. Prior to this, she earned a double bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics and psychology, with a minor in sociology, at Birzeit University in Palestine.

She is interested in the interaction among individuals, food availability, modes of production, and society along with how this can lead to sustainable development and resilience within societies. This drove her to write her Master thesis about a related topic, which titled “The Role of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in Contributing to Food Sovereignty in West Bank, Palestine”.  

From 2013-2018 she worked as an assistant in a series of places and projects including:

  • Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) in Ramallah-Palestine
  • The Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutritional Science at University of Hohenheim on a project called “Food Habits and Nutritional Status of Asylum Seekers Living in Accommodations Supervised by Caritas in Stuttgart, Germany.”
  • “Social conditions of food-related well-being in times of crisis: A study on refugees and their role as knowledge brokers”.
  • SME institute, university of Mannheim, Germany in a project entitled “working in Germany” for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration in Baden-Württemberg.

Institution: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany

You can learn about Mai's passions and concerns in Unit 3

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