Jens Koning
Research Assistant
Research Interests
- Democratization
- Autocratic politics
- Environment and conflict
- Environmental degradation and inequality
- Collective action, protest and climate change
- China and Southeast Asia
- Quantitative methods (using R/Python)
Jens is a research assistant on the EducAid- and NORM projects led by Gudrun Østby and Ilaria Carozza. He is perticularly interested in how political institutions affect environmental outcomes in developing countries, and has a regional interest in China and Southeast Asia.
Previously, Jens attended the UiO-PRIO Student Program. Using quantitative methods and geospatial data, his thesis project "Nature as Patronage? Exploring The Effects of Democratization and Support Coalition Identity on Forest Loss" explored whether variation in the identity of incumbent regimes' political supporters can affect post-democratization forest loss in young democracies.
Education:
2020 – 2022 MSc in Political Science, University of Oslo
2020 – 2020 Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University
2016 – 2019 BA in International Studies, University of Oslo and Fudan University
2014 – 2015 One-year-program in Psychology, The Arctic University of Norway
Work experience:
2022 – Research Assistant, PRIO2021 – 2022 Research Assistant, University of Oslo (ELDAR/PoD)
2021 Teaching Assistant, University of Oslo (STV 2250)
2019 – 2020 Intern, Norwegian Consulate General in Shanghai
2018 – 2019 Communications Assistant, Statnett SF
Languages:
English, Norwegian, Dutch and Chinese (intermediate).
Current projects
Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia (NORM)
Nature as Patronage? Exploring The Effects of Democratization and Support Coalition Identity on Forest Loss
EducAid: Improving Education for Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar Living in Bangladesh
