Prof. Dr. Barbara Freytag-Leyer
Socio-ecology of Private Houshold
Retired since 2016
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
CV
Since 2017 senior researcher in INTERREG North-West-Europe project Food Heroes
Since 1999 – September 2016 professor for Socio-ecology of Private Households
1996 Dr. oec. troph. Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen
1993 – October 1999 Assistant department director in regional support/sponsorship at an office for regional development, landscaping and agriculture in Hesse
Before teacher and consultant at the Agricultural Administration of Hesse, examiner in Committee of Examination for Master Craftsman’s Diploma for rural and urban household
State exam for teacher on agricultural and vocational schools
State exam in the Hessian Agricultural Administration
Diploma study Household and Nutritional Sciences Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen
Teaching Areas
Former Teaching areas:
- Supply of services for private households
- Consumer protection and policy
- Living ecology
- Nutritional education
- Case study
- Nutritional and Consumer Behaviour (IFBC/Susfoods)
- Consumer Sciences and Sustainable Consumption (IFBC/Susfoods)
Areas of Research
- Living and caring in private households
- Services close to home
- Society and Sustainability
Research Projects
Subpartner in Food Heroes: Improving resource efficiency through designing innovative solutions to reduce food waste, 09/2016-03/2020 (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Pichner and Prof. Dr. Hampshire)
Partner in EU-Project M-House: M-learning to unleash households´ business potential, 11/2013-10/2015 (www.m-house.eu)
Partner in EU-Project NUTGECS: A nutritional guide for early childhood active stakeholders, 09/2010-09/2012 (http://opus.rz.hs-fulda.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/446)
Coordinator in EU-Projekt CHANCE: Community Health Management to Enhance Behaviour; 12/2007-11/2009, additional from 08/2008 Projektmanager (http://opus.rz.hs-fulda.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/449)
Memberships
German Federation for Home Economics (dgh e.V.)
International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE) und IFHE Household Technology and Sustainability Committee
Association of Oecotrophologie (VDOE)
Publications
Further Functions
Reviewer for AiF 2009-2012, SILQUA-FH 2009, AHPGS 2010, Austrian FFG 2012-2014, AQAS 2016
Programme committee member of the International Scientific Conference Economic Science for Rural Development, Jelgava, Latvia (since 2007)
Advisory board member of Handel Wewnętrzny. Ed. Institute for Market, Consumption and Business Cycles Research,Warszawa, Poland (since 2014)