Susan T Jackson, PhD
Post-doctoral researcher
Susan focuses on understanding the role of understanding commercial determinants of health, especially how corporations contribute to justifications for system-level decisions on security and public health issues, especially the links between social media, social and environmental sustainability, and ethical research. As principal investigator of the HEALth-oriented agri-food systems transformation network (HEAL) grant, she leads a four-university consortium focusing on networking and international grant writing activities, funded by the Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK) through the state’s “Beteiligung in europäischen Großvorhaben und Initiativen” (BEGIN) program. Before joining HIGH, she was principal investigator of Militarization 2.0: militarization’s social media footprint through a gendered lens, a five-year multi-team research grant funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet).
Education
PhD, political science, University of Arizona (USA), 2000-2008
MA, international studies, American University (USA), 1991-1993
BA, political science, Temple University (USA), 1987-1991
dipl., climate action, Anant National University (India), 2021-2022
Contributions
Projects & Grants
Current
MWK Baden-Württemberg, HEALth-oriented agri-food systems transformation (HEAL), 2024-2026, PI, https://heal-network.eu/
Horizon Europe, Food systems that support transitions to hEalthy And Sustainable dieTs (FEAST), 2022-2027, https://feast2030.eu/
Past
Wellcome Trust, A global multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effects of cool roofs on health, environmental and economic outcomes (REFLECT), 2024-2026, https://www.reflect.org.nz/
DFG, The effect of cool roofs on health, environmental and economic outcomes in rural Africa (cool roofs), 2020-2026, https://cch-africa.de/cool-roofs/
Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet), Militarization 2.0: militarization’s social media footprint through a gendered lens (Mil 2.0), 2013-2018, PI
Publications
Topic: Interdisciplinary Studies – International Politics, Sustainability, Data
“DIY Cruelty: The Global Political Micro-Practices of Hateful Memes” Global Studies Quarterly. 2022, 2(2):1-11. With Renée Marlin-Bennett. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksac002
“Risking Sustainability: Political Risk Culture as Inhibiting Ecology-Centered Sustainability.” Risks. 2021, 9: 186. https://doi.org/10.3390/risks9110186
Best Paper Award, 9th UACES Workshop on EU-China Relations in Global Politics, virtual workshop, 4-5 November 2020, UACES Collaborative Research Network (CRN) on EU-China Relations & the ESSCA EU*Asia Institute.
“A Turning IR Landscape in a Shifting Media Ecology: The State of IR literature on New Media” International Studies Review. 2019, 21(3): 518-534. https://academic.oup.com/isr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isr/viy046/5004645
“Accessibility and Flexibility: Two Organizing Principles for Big Data Collaboration” in Big Data Factories: Collaborative Approaches, edited by Sorin Adam Matei, Nicolas Jullien and Sean P Goggins. London: Routledge. 2017, 9-22. With Libby Hemphill.
Project: Militarization 2.0: Militarization’s social media footprint through a gendered lens (2013-2018)
"Militarization 2.0: Communication and the Normalization of Political Violence in the Digital Age" Forum, edited by Susan T Jackson, Rhys Crilley and Ilan Manor. International Studies Review, 2021, 23(3): 1046-1071. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaa035
“‘Selling’ National Security: Saab, YouTube and the Militarized Neutrality of Swedish Citizen Identity” Critical Military Studies. 2019, 5(3):257-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2017.1395675
“Assessing Meaning Construction on Social Media: A Case of Normalizing Militarism” SIPRI Policy Brief, October 2017. With Jutta Joachim, Nick Robinson and Andrea Schneiker. www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2017-10/mil_2_policy_brief.pdf
“Marketing Militarism in the Digital Age: Arms Production, YouTube and Selling ‘National Security’” in Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age. Caitlin Hamilton and Laura Shepherd (eds.). London: Routledge. 2016, 68-82.
Other Areas
“Adhesion of cool roof coatings to mudbrick and corrugated metal roofs: manual peel adhesion testing” Next Research. 2025, 2(2):100362. With Aditi Bunker, Guillaume Compoaré, …, Till Bärnighausen. doi.org/10.1016/j.nexres.2025.100362
“The Effects of Cool Roofs on Health, Environmental, and Economic Outcomes in Rural Africa: Study Protocol for a Community-based Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.” Trials. 2024, 25(59). With Aditi Bunker, Guillaume Compoaré, Maquins Odhiambo Sewe, … Ali Sie, Till Bärnighausen. doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07804-0
Contact Information
E-Mail: susan.jackson@uni-heidelberg.de