PEAK Expert
Monika Mayrhofer
Focus
HUMAN RIGHTS/MIGRATION
Kontakt
E-Mail:
monika.mayrhofer@uibk.ac.at
Phone:
+43 512 50-73912
Web:
Department of Applied Sociology of Law and Criminology
Speaks: German, English
Monika Mayrhofer is a senior scientist at the Department of Applied Sociology of Law and Criminology at the University of Innsbruck in Vienna, and also teaches regularly at the Universities of Vienna and Krems. Her research focuses on the human rights implications of climate change and climate policy, the rights of refugees and internally displaced persons in the context of climate change and the international and European human rights system with a focus on the right to equality and non-discrimination.
Focus Cloud: Climate change and mobility, human rights impacts of climate policy, rights of refugees and internally displaced persons, international and European human rights system, right to equality and non-discrimination in climate policies, gender, postcolonial, critical, political and human rights theory
About
Monika Mayrhofer studied political science at the Universities of Vienna and Copenhagen and received her doctorate in 2008. Her research interests include climate change and human rights with a special focus on different forms of migration in the context of climate change, intersectional inequalities and discrimination as well as international and European human rights discourses, policies and systems. Since July 2023, she has been working as a Senior Scientist at the Department of Applied Sociology of Law and Criminology. Previously, she worked as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (2006-2008) and from 2011 as a senior researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna. Since 2004, she has regularly taught at the University of Vienna and the University of Krems. From 2010 to 2015, she was a visiting professor at the Institute of International Studies in Bangkok/Thailand on several occasions.