Malene Brandt Winther - new PhD fellow at IFUL
As of 1 October Malene Brandt Winther (born 1975) is employed as a PhD fellow at IFUL. The fellowship is part of the cooperation between IFUL and the Ministry of the Interior and Social Affairs cofinancing with approximately one third. The three year PhD fellowship is concerned with the impact of the Danish administrative reform on rural areas, and the intention is to analyse how the municipalitities are organizing themselves politically and administratively, and how the citizens perceive the development of municipal services and the opportunities to gain influence.
Malene Brandt Winther is a social anthropologist from Aarhus University, and holds a master's degree inÌýpostcolonial politics and social research from the University of Wales. Furthermore she hasÌýexperience from employment with HTH,ÌýÌýForce Technology andÌýher own consultancy firm. A detailed project description isÌýcurrently beingÌýprepared and willÌýbe describedÌýfurther later.
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