Thesis Title: Social movement failure: Internal choices and agency within climate campaigns
Supervisors: Professor Stephen Fisher and Dr Mathis Ebbinghaus
Lea is a DPhil in Sociology student at Kellogg College researching internal factors explaining why nonviolent climate campaigns do not achieve their stated objectives. For this, she analyses various factors reaching from resources, organisational structures, support bases to tactics and strategies. She conducts ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and text analysis.
Lea also leads Oxford's discussion group on social movements that bridges different departments and brings together faculty and students to advance protest studies.
She is the co-founder of the climate group Letzte Generation and active in the environmental movement.
Lea is available to teach sociological analysis, social movements, political Sociology, international relations, and qualitative methods.
Research Interests: Civil resistance, social movements, protest, non-violence political sociology, environmental movements, climate, qualitative methods, participatory action research, decolonising methods, ethnography
Previous Education: BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam University College; MPhil International Relations, University of Oxford
