Project Description
2023
- Dr. Elizabeth Gosling, a staff member at the Chair of Forest Management at the TUM School of Life Sciences has been awarded the Gerhard Speidel Prize 2022 at a ceremony in 2023 for her dissertation. In her socio-economically oriented dissertation, she developed a landscape approach to optimize land allocation, which she uses to evaluate and assess the likely acceptability of agroforestry systems. The prize is endowed with prize money in the amount of 10,000 €.
2018- 2021
- Completed a PhD at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, focusing on socioeconomic land-use modelling and tropical agroforestry, including a research stay in Panama; employed part-time as a research assistant at TUM
2017
- Research Associate at the Bavarian State Institute of Forestry (Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft), reviewing ‘Forests and Human Health’
2016 ongoing
- Volunteering at the Münchner Tafel one a week helping feed the needy
2015-2017
- Completed a Masters in Sustainable Resource Management at the TUM, Germany, researching community attitudes towards wolves in Poland
- Chose to take German classes alongside studies
2012-2014
- Project Officer at the Mallee Catchment Management Authority in Mildura, Victoria
2011
- GAP Year travelling in Europe; completed a B1 language course at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin
2009-2010
- Chose to study German at evening classes at the Goethe-Institut in Melbourne
2009-2011
- Policy Officer at the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment
2008
- Completed a Bachelor of Natural Resource Management at the University of Melbourne
2006
- Awarded a cadetship with the Department of Sustainability and Environment
2004
- Chose to study German at VCE along with English, Geography, Economics, Literature and Maths Methods
2002
- Four-week sister-school exchange in Neu Isenburg in Hessen, Germany
1999
- Started learning German at Rainbow Secondary College
