Ingrid Altamirano

Currently based at Lund University. Ingrid A. coordinates LU´s Bachelor's programme in Urban and Regional Planning. She is also an Academic Advisor for courses in Human Geography.

Besides her academic background, she has many years of experience in interdisciplinary research. She worked previously at SLU as a research assistant within the project " Young people's perspective on the use, values and benefits of the city's blue-green infrastructure", and at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) in Mexico.  Her topics of research in Mexico were geopolitics, geo-economics, globalization and its connection to scarce natural resources access and use, ecological crisis, as well as the links between technology and sustainability.

Studying societal changes, injustices and inequalities on a global and local level is among her greatest interests. She has spent her entire adult life working with education and holding workshops for youth and adults. She has done this in various contexts, including civil society organizations, municipal schools as well as universities and other forums in Sweden, Denmark, Japan and Mexico.

Ingrid has worked as a research assistant, lecturer and substitute teacher, been active as an academic advisor, programme and project coordinator and worked on a voluntary basis within several organizations.

SLU

Autumn, 2022 and 2023

Forest and Landscape Governance

International experience

Roskilde University

august 2016- january 2017

Academic planning and execution of workshops on extractivism and development in Latin America; special support to bachelor students within Sprogprofil in Spanish.

National Autonomous University of Mexico

2008-2011

Globalization, Identity and Cultural Diversity; Geo-economics, geopolitics and hegemonic crises; Social sciences theory and methodology; Bachelor’s thesis writing workshop

Altamirano holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (2009), a Master's of Science degree in Human Ecology: Culture, Power and Sustainability from Lund University (2017) and a Magister of Arts in Epistemologies of the South from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (2022).