Sigrid Brydolf

Doktorand | PhD Student
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
sigrid.brydolf@su.se

Our global food system is today facing severe challenges in terms of negative impacts on planetary boundaries, nutritionally inadequate diets, and social inequalities due to the highly industrialized and globalized nature of food production and consumption practices. Coping with these challenges will likely require transformative change.

My research focuses on the potential of dietary identity to enable or hinder transformative change in the food system. Using agent-based modelling and a combination of qualitative methods, I aim to bring together the fields of social psychology and sustainability transformations in order to increase the understanding of leverage points for moving towards a more sustainable food system. With an academic background in Environmental Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, I have acquired knowledge and understanding of sustainability science, systems thinking, and transdisciplinarity, which sparked my interest to pursue an academic career and conduct a PhD in Sustainability Science at Stockholm Resilience Centre.