Helena Römmelmann

About Helena Römmelmann

Helena is a doctoral student in Sociology and part of the Environmental Sociology research group and the WATCH research school. She is affiliated with Future Water institute at the University of Cape Town and the Nordic Africa Institute.

Helena is interested in environmental and social justice issues related to climate change, and her dissertation examines how politics, societal planning, and people's lived experiences intersect to shape freshwater water access.

She did her master's thesis in Cape Town, South Africa, about food security, focusing on social risks related to climate change. Her doctoral dissertation also focuses on Cape Town, but this time water and related societal challenges are at the center from a critical feminist and postcolonial perspective. 

Helena has a background as a social work practitioner and returned to higher education to study a 2-year master's program in Societal Risk Management at Karlstad University. She has worked as a research assistant at Karlstad and Örebro University on various international and national projects, including disaster risk management in the Balkans, flooding in Denmark and Sweden, and (un)sustainable consumption in Sweden.

Helena is part of the educational staff and teaches sociology.