I graduated from the EU-funded European Master of Global Studies programme in September 2021
with a focus on global processes of spatialization, nation-building and narrative ideologies.
Since then I helped produce a variety of development research literature,
with a focus on labor market policies, their effects on poverty and collective organization, and multi-dimensional inequality reduction.
I have developed a broad range of skills in data acquisition, organization and analysis,
manuscript editing and reference management,
as well as first insights into event management, teaching assistance, content creation and website management.
The range of my academic work has spanned development studies, tourism studies, social protection, American studies and security studies.
Aside from academic work I am interested in and an active proponent
of free and open software production and
creating the conditions for an open and barrier-free science production.
# Professional Experience
## Research Assistant, UNU-WIDER (2022)
> Niño-Zarazúa, M., & Morabito, C. (forthcoming). Assessing the potential distributional impacts of development interventions. UNU-WIDER.
* Collected, processed, and cleaned 4 datasets, including UNU-WIDER-WIID and OECD-CRS DAC
* Conducted descriptive analysis of inequality trends and drivers in 4 countries
* Produced basic time-series visualizations and descriptive analysis of development aid contributions and their distribution
## Consultant, Social Protection, Productivity and Formalization Nexus Review (2022)
> Torm, N. (forthcoming). The Social Protection, Productivity and Formalization Nexus among low- and middle- income countries: A Scoping Review of the Literature. International Labour Office.
* Managed data acquisition, organization, and maintenance for analysis from a pool of over 1500 review candidates
* Conducted qualitative analysis and organization of 41 individual review sources
* Performed basic quantitative analysis of dataset characteristics
## Consultant, Active Labour Market Policies Review in Asia and the Pacific (2022)
> Niño-Zarazúa, M., & Torm, N. (2022). Active Labour Market Policies in Asia and the Pacific: A review of the literature. Roskilde Universitet. SECO Working Paper Series Vol. 2022 No. 4
* Managed data acquisition, organization, and maintenance for analysis from a pool of over 700 review candidates
* Conducted qualitative description and organization of 106 individual review sources
## Research Assistant, Roskilde University (2021)
> Riisgaard, L. (2020). Worker Organisation and Social Protection amongst Informal Petty Traders in Tanzania. Roskilde Universitet. CAE Working Paper No. 2020:4
* Conducted data preparation and filtering from provided STATA dataset
* Copy edited manuscript for legibility, conciseness, and clarity
* Managed references and adhered to specified academic style guides
## Editorial Assistant, SPIWORK Project, Roskilde University (2021)
* Structured and edited individual chapters of a scientific anthology
* Managed references and adhered to specified academic style guides
* Prepared book structure, title, and appendix according to publisher's specifications
## Academic Assistant, Institute of American Studies, University of Leipzig (2018--2019).
* Digitized and optimized teaching and research materials
* Maintained and prepared internal institute content management system (SHRIMP)
* Optimized optical character recognition and artifact-free image processing
## Student Assistant, Professor Crister S. Garrett, University of Leipzig (2017--2019).
* Digitized and prepared selected working material
* Acquired and managed necessary references and research for further study
## Event and Teaching Assistant, Trans Atlantic Summer School Cultures of Security (2018)
* Prepared, organized, and implemented schedule for teaching and events
* Provided administrative support for international faculty
* Mentored and supported international participants on-site and follow-up
* Co-created and structured content in Wordpress content management system
* Created API interface to interact with Twitter, Facebook, and an internal event stream
* Designed basic HTML and CSS pages
# Education
Master Thesis
: Re-Evaluating Nature's Gifts: Economic and Experiential Value Productions in Namibia's Ecotourism
: Used a theoretical basis of power analyze the mechanisms of consensus shaping the production of ecotourism space. Utilizing critical discourse analysis on the case study of Namibia, it explored various means of value production between economic and experiential values in tourism.
University of Leipzig, Germany
: European Master of Global Studies, MA; 2021.
Roskilde University, Denmark
: Global Studies, MSc; 2021.
University of Leipzig, Germany
: American Studies, BA; 2018.
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# Selected Courses
Global History of Development: Ideas, Actors and International Organizations
: Enabled a critical engagement with visions, ideas, critiques and reshapings of development schemes from early 20th to early 21st century. Additionally, introduced specific development actors and institutions with operational processes and visions between NGOs, international organizations, and local communities.
Introduction to International Studies & Political Economy
: Enabled theoretical perspectives on Globalisation between mainstream economic/political economy approaches and their critics and challengers. Built on those fundamental theoretical roots to apply analysis to international economic entanglements and fundamental questions of capitalist growth and its influence on social structures.
Methods for the Study of Globalisation
: Introduced methods of work in pluri- and partly postdisciplinary research environments. Special focus was put on the combination of quantitative and qualitative research, reflexivity and positionality of the research work itself, and a strong practical application of analysis methods.
Neighborhood Policies of Regional Powers as Competing Space Formats: Case Studies from Europe, Asia and Near East
: Engaged the discussion and analysis of the design of neighborhood policies. Analysis was done through theory debates concerning the construction of competing space formats and contested power structures.
Infrastructure, Empire and Nation in China and Asia (China in Globalhistorischer Perspektive)
: Discussed the relationship of empire- and nation-building with infastructural construction ambitions. Mainly using individual infrastructural projects as case study analyses between modern infrastructure rejections and techno-nationalism.
Is there a European society emerging?
: Engaged the process of European integration from a socio-political perspective, investigating its growth as one of rising transnational social integration. Main focus was provided by different dimensions of integration: European identity and trust, solidarity, transnational mobility, European citizenship, and the emergence of a European public sphere.
Introduction to the History of State Socialism in Eastern Europe
: Analyzed the history of state socialist Eastern Europe, balanced between Soviet regional dominance and global entanglements predominantly in the Global South.
Included discussion of a space of post-communist experience and memory cultures of communism as idea and state socialism as practice after 1989 and 1991.
Project Thesis: The Dimensions of Control in Capital Fixes
: A 6-month long group project resulting in a thesis output which interrogated the theoretical conception of power structures within Beverly Silver's dimensions of capital fixes. Used Amazon's warehouse shop-floors as a case study of labor power between its fracture and collective agency.
Labour in the Global Economy: Restructuring and Resistance
: Employed critical theoretical perspectives to analyze the interactions between labor and changing nature of global capitalism, focusing especially on the Global South. With focus on international political economy, transnational production, de- and reregulation of labor imparted advanced knowledge of academic debates on the nature of labor.
Middle East from a Global Perspective
: Interrogated the political, social, intellectual and cultural structures of the region and the global connections that the it to the rest of the world. With a focus provided deep empirical understanding of the complexities of the role and position of the Middle East in the world.
Master Thesis: Re-Evaluating Nature's Gifts: Economic and Experiential Value Productions in Namibia's Ecotourism
: Used a theoretical basis of power analyze the mechanisms of consensus shaping the production of ecotourism space. Utilizing critical discourse analysis on the case study of Namibia, it explored various means of value production between economic and experiential values in tourism.
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# Qualifications
Digital toolset
: Version control software (git)
: Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access)
: Authoring software (LaTeX, pandoc)
: Data science (Python Pandas, SciPy, Plotly)
: Data management (Web scraping, SQL)
Languages
: German (native), English (fluent), French (basic)
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# Personal Projects
pubs-extract
: A pdf annotation extraction program for the pubs reference management software. Automatically extracts and tags highlights and notes from pdf files managed with the reference sotware.
uoeia
: Universal image opener. A command line utility to universally grab and open image files in any desired imageviewer application, whether from a local directory or the web.
bemoji
: Lets you pick from a wide variety of emoji to copy or type them directly with the push of a button. Remembers your favorite and most often used emoji so you don't have to. Allows you to filter the emoji through simple key words as their descriptions and can also display math symbols.
