Anna Helena Liiv
Junior Research Fellow in Sustainability Transitions and PhD candidate at the University of Tartu
Anna Helena Liiv is a Junior Research Fellow in Sustainability Transition Studies and PhD student of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Tallinn University in History, where she got involved in environmental history, which has remained one of the focus points of her research.
During her bachelor studies, Liiv was included in a research project “Estonian Environmentalism in the 20th century: ideology, discourses, practices”, where her research focused on weather extremes during the 19th century which was also the topic of her bachelor’s thesis. Her master’s thesis analyses the Estonian Nature Conservation Society and its activities during the late Soviet period, more precisely its organisational and educational work, domestic and international contacts of the Society and its work at the intersection between nature conservation and art.
Her PhD project will focus on the relationship between industrial modernity and the environmental consequences of industrial development in Estonia over the last 150 years. The topic will be divided into 3 different case studies covering different industries: oil shale mining, agriculture and textile industry.