Dr. Carlotta Ehrenzeller is a Swiss education and peacebuilding scholar based at the University of Cambridge (UK). She has worked and lived in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Peru, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and the UK as an educator, researcher and advisor. Carlotta’s bilingual research in English and German and undergraduate teaching currently focuses on Montessori Education, peacebuilding through education, nature-based learning, student voice and participation, educational change, decoloniality, contextualisation of program implementations as well as innovative arts-based and participatory feminist methodologies. Carlotta has served as a senior researcher on various research projects, focusing on themes such as the future of education, regenerative pedagogies, ecological justice and holistic education. She presented her research at major conferences in the peace and education field in Mexico (IIPE), Trinidad and Tobago (IPRA), the US (CIES) and locally in the UK. Her latest projects resulted in the publication of a podcast, data-poetry, facilitating workshops and offering lectures, a children’s book about peace as well as various academic articles. Additionally, Carlotta has served as an academic advisor to the Swiss Foreign Ministry focusing on Human Rights in East and Southeast Asia as well as being a board member for Shanti e.V., working on poverty alleviation through holistic approaches in rural Bangladesh.
