Prof. Dr. Daniel Fischer

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C11.025
Fon +49.4131.677-1966, daniel.fischer@leuphana.de
Professor*in, Professorship of Sustainability Education and Communication

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Vita

Daniel Fischer is Professor for Sustainability Education & Communication at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He is also holding the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development since the beginning of 2024. Daniel’s research explores how more sustainable ways of living and consuming can be facilitated through communication and learning. He uses inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to understand how consumption patterns evolve and change over time and in different cultural settings, and what role communication processes play in this. Daniel’s strong interest is in intervention research. In recent research projects with his SuCo2 research group, he studied how innovative practices like mindfulness, storytelling, or citizen science can disrupt consumption routines and increase reflexivity in individuals. His work aims, in an educational tradition, to empower people to re-shape their relationships with the consumer societies into which they have been born, encultured, and socialized in the industrialized world.  Before he joined Leuphana, Daniel served as Assistant Professor for Sustainability Education at Arizona State University (USA) and Associate Professor for Consumer Communication and Sustainability at Wageningen University (THe Netherlands).  

Research Interests

Education for Sustainable Development, Social Studies, Teacher Education, Consumer Education, Sustainable Consumption, Sustainability Communication

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Die Rohstoff-Expedition: Entdecke, was in (d)einem Handy steckt!
    Daniel Fischer (Author) , Kai Niebert (Author) , Julia Nordmann (Author) , Maria J. Welfens (Author) , Claudia Nemnich (Author) , Britta Bookhagen (Author) , Katrin Bienge (Author) , 2015 2 ed. Berlin , 160 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Compendium/lecture notes › Education

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Journal contributions

  1. Getting an empirical hold of the sustainable university: a comparative analysis of evaluation frameworks across 12 contemporary sustainability assessment tools
    Daniel Fischer (Author) , Silke Jenssen (Author) , Valentin Tappeser (Author) , 18.08.2015 , in: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 40, 6 , p. 785-800 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Conceptualizing sustainable consumption: Toward an integrative framework
    Daniel Fischer (Author) , Antonietta Di Giulio (Author) , Martina Schäfer (Author) , Birgit Blättel-Mink (Author) , 01.04.2014 , in: Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, 10, 1 , p. 45-61 , 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Educational Organisations as »Cultures of Consumption«: Cultural Contexts of Consumer Learning in Schools
    Daniel Fischer (Author) , 01.01.2011 , in: European Educational Research Journal, 10, 4 , p. 595-610 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Nachhaltiger Konsum: Wie lässt sich Nachhaltigkeit im Konsum beurteilen?
    Daniel Fischer (Author) , Gerd Michelsen (Author) , Birgit Blättel-Mink (Author) , Antonietta Di Giulio (Author) , 01.01.2011 München , p. 73-88 , 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

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Activities

Teaching