I primarily study citizen engagement in environmental governance, natural resource management and infrastructural development, focusing on how citizens can influence decision-making that facilitates positive environmental and societal changes.

My doctoral research examined company-community disputes in the Guatemalan mining sector, with a particular focus on the innovative ways vulnerable groups attempt to influence decision-making processes in highly complex environments.

In my postdoctoral research, I studied public participation and citizen engagement in crude oil pipeline regulation in the United States. In this work, we examined the conditions under which opposition to oil pipeline development emerges, how state-level regulatory dynamics enable or constrain social mobilization, and how civil society groups navigate regulatory processes.

Recently I have been involved in projects about sustainable tourism in the Arctic, adaptive co-management of social-ecological fjord systems in the Arctic, sustainable mining for Rare Earth Elements in Norway, as well as socio-ecological tipping points and clean-energy transitions.