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Academic interests and areas of expertise

  •  Religion and ecology, sustainability transitions, grassroots innovations, ecovillages, diffusion.  
  • Nadine studied Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Theology and General Ecology (BA) and Religion, Economy and Politics (MA) at different Swiss Universities. After her studies, Nadine worked in the fields of innovation and biomedical ethics. Her interest in sustainability led her back to the University of Basel in summer 2021 where she started her PhD in sociology and worked as a project assistant and researcher in the research project “Ecovillages as Incubators for Sustainability Transitions”. Currently, she works as a researcher in and project coordinator of the research project “What Are the Greening Dynamics of Religion”, located at the Theological Faculty, University of Oslo.

Positions

  • Researcher, Theological Faculty, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • Project assistant & PhD researcher, Centre for Religion, Economy and Politics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Staff member, Office of the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics, Bern, Switzerland
  • Research assistant, Centre for Religion, Economy and Politics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Innovation ethicist, ethix – Lab for innovation ethics, Zurich, Switzerland • Co-founder & co-site manager, ROCK YOUR LIFE! Winterthur (mentoring program), Winterthur, Switzerland
Tags: Religion and Society, Lived Religion, Religion and Ecology, Sociology of Religion

Publications

  • Nadine Bruehwiler, Adam Hearn, Lasse Kos, Rebeca Roysen, Jens Koehrsen, Roman Hausmann, Paula Bögel (2025): Energy justice in innovative living spaces: Examining positive energy districts and ecovillages in Europe, Energy Research & Social Science 127(104248), 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104248
  • Nadine Bruehwiler, Jens Koehrsen, Julius Malin, Rebeca Roysen, Lasse Kos (2025): Does religious difference have an impact on the diffusion of sustainable innovations? A mixed-methods analysis of ecovillages worldwide, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 57: 1-17, 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101024
  • Rebeca Roysen, Guilherme Moura Fagundes, Lasse Kos, Nadine Bruehwiler, Jens Koehrsen (2025): Building a world-ship: A deceolonial approach to just energy transitions, Human Geography 18(2), 10.1177/19427786251326605
  • Rebeca Roysen, Nadine Bruehwiler, Lasse Kos Robert Boyer, Jens Koehrsen (2024): Rethinking the diffusion of grassroots innovations: An embedding framework, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 200(123156), 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.123156
  • Rebeca Roysen, Jens Köhrsen, Nadine Brühwiler, Lasse Kos (2023): Global South, Glossar Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit: Beiträge zur sozial-ökologischen Transformationsforschung, https://sun-blog.org/global-south-glossar-soziologie-der-nachhaltigkeit/
  • Nadine Bruehwiler and Jens Koehrsen (2022): Taylor, Bron (2010): Dark Green Religion: Nature spirituality and the planetary future, Youssef Ibrahim and Simone Rödder (eds.), Schlüsselwerke der sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung, transcript, 203-208, 10.14361/9783839456668-035
  • Nadine Brühwiler, Simone Romagnoli, Jean-Daniel Strub (2021): Covid-19: Verlautbarungen der Schweizer Nationalen Ethikkommission im Bereich Humanmedizin, Wolfgang Krö l, Johann Platzer, Hans-Walter Ruckenbauer and Walter Schaupp (eds.), Die Coronapandemie: Ethische, gese lschaftliche und theologische Reflexionen einer Krise, Nomos, 51-64.
Published Aug. 13, 2025 3:35 PM - Last modified Sep. 24, 2025 4:51 PM

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