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Rate My Professor Laura Schoenberger,

University of Durham

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5.04/30/2025

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Dr Laura Schoenberger is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Geography at Durham University, where she holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for her project "Digging into sand: New territories in the making," which investigates sand extraction and territorialization processes. Her research specializes in political ecology and political geography, focusing on resource conflicts, territory, land rights, and sand politics, primarily in Southeast Asia with emphasis on Cambodia. She is affiliated with the Politics-State-Space research cluster. Schoenberger completed her PhD in Critical Human Geography at York University in 2018, followed by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Ottawa on "Sand grabbing: Disentangling land, water and sand to reveal new struggles for territory." She brings over 15 years of experience as a researcher and development practitioner in the region, including roles with the UN, environmental NGOs, and funders in Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao PDR, and Singapore.

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