About

Anja Roßmanith completed her MPhil in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance at the University of Oxford, UK, where she studied between 2023 and 2025. In her master’s thesis, she explored the emerging seaweed industry in Europe, which is often promoted as a promising strategy for climate change mitigation. Using Cornwall as a case study, she examined the social and political-ecological tensions surrounding industrial seaweed farming in the United Kingdom from a more-than-human perspective. Through multi-species ethnographic research, she focused on the perspectives of local coastal communities as well as on the seaweeds themselves and their dynamic marine environment.

Since October 2025, Anja has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Human Geography and is continuing her research on human-nature relations in marine spaces as part of her PhD project.

Education and career

• Since 10/2025: Research assistant and PhD student at the Department of Geography, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
• 09/2023 – 09/2025: Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance at the University of Oxford – master’s thesis on “Contested Realities of Seaweed Farming: Negotiating Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene Ocean”
• 10/2019 – 09/2023: Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt – bachelor’s thesis on “Geographies of Sensing and Experiencing – On the Lived Bodily Configuration of Resonant Spaces in Yoga With Nature”

Scholarships and awards

• Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for master studies abroad
• Gordon Smith Award (Keble Association) for research stays and travels
• Faith Ivens-Franklin Award for research stays and travels
• Recipient of the Max Weber Program Scholarship and member of the Elite Network of Bavaria

Memberships

• Postgraduate Officer for the RGS Animal Geographies Working Group

Research interests

• More-than-human geographies
• Political Ecology
• Marine human-nature relations
• Multispecies ethnographies