New PhD fellow at the Centre of African Studies

Jacob Worsøe will join the Centre of African Studies as our new PhD fellow starting from December 2016.

Jacob’s research interest lies within the political
economy of rural development and the political
ecology of environmental protection and governance  of natural resource in Africa.

His PhD project will focus on the growing importance of ecotourism in Africa and its potential relationship with poverty alleviation and natural conservation. The project concentrates on ecotourism in Uganda and will explore the opportunities and limitations of ecotourism in relation to sustainable development with special attention to struggles over livelihoods in affected communities.

Jacob holds a Masters degree in Geography & Geoinformatics from the University of Copenhagen, with part of his studies taken at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Masters’ thesis dealt with formal and informal institutions in the agricultural sector of Sub-Saharan Africa illustrated through a study of contract farming arrangements in Tanzania. Jacob has previously undertaken part-time lecturing at graduate level at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management and at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.