mette olesen

Business PhD, conducting a qualitative analysis of Light Rails based upon european experiences. At COWI I am working within the area of traffic planning and public transport.

Teaching and supervistion at the 4th semester at the bachelorprogramme in Urban- Energy & Environmental Planning. The theme of the semester is 'Mobility and Urban Planning'

As part of my Phd study I joined the TSU group at Oxford University for three weeks, where I got the possibility to share my research, and get insights to the research carried out at TSU.

On my 9th semester i worked in the private consultancy business Urbis, in Melbourne. I worked as a part of the Social Planning Team.

As a Research assistant I worked with various tasks. I supervised two 5th semester groups at the bachelor programme in Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning. The theme of the semester was "The Sociology of Mobilities". I also supervised a Master student at 10th semester on the Master Programme in Urban Planning and Management. Furthermore I worked with various task related to marketing of the educations: Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning, Surveyor, and Geography. One of my tasks was to create a Marketing strategy from 2011-2013 for the three educations. Another job was to organize a new geographer network that links geographers from various institutions. One of initiatives in this geographer’s network was conducting the first annual "Geographers day at AAU".