Patcharin Sae-heng

Scientific Staff, PhD Candidate (she/her)

Patcharin Sae-heng is currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Communication and Advisory Services in Rural Areas, the University of Hohenheim. The topic of her PhD dissertation is co-production of Buddhist Agroecological Knowledge in Thailand. She aims to explain the co-production process with the religion-based perspective of agroecology. Her research interest is given to diverse topics, namely agroecology, Buddhist agriculture, co-production of agricultural knowledge, and traditional ecological knowledge. For her Bachelor's degree, she studied Social Science in the International Studies concentration and learnt German language as her minor at the International College, Mahidol University in Thailand. In 2020, She graduated her Master’s degree in environmental management and technology from the Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University. Her master’s research topic was on “Knowledge Translation Process of the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard in Thailand”. From 2017 - 2022, she worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) in Thailand in a project called "Thai-German Climate Programme (TGCP) – Agriculture", which focused on the development of monitoring system for the greenhouse gas emission from rice farming in Thailand.

Research interest

  • agroecology
  • Buddhist agriculture
  • co-production of agricultural knowledge
  • traditional ecological knowledge

Curriculum Vitae

Since 10/2022  Ph.D. International PhD Program "Agricultural Economics, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Food Systems" (IPPAE)  Dept. of Communication and Advisory Services in Rural Areas, Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture, University of Hohenheim 
09/2021 – 11/2021 Internship (Research and Publication) German –Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG) 
10/2020 – 06/2022  Junior Advisor (Thai-German Climate Programme - Agriculture Component) The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH 
08/2018 – 07/2020 

Mater of Science Programme in Environmental Management and Technology (International Programme) 

Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University
03/2018 – 09/2020  Project Assistant (Thai-German Climate Programme - Agriculture Component)  The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH 
08/2017 – 01/2018  Internship ACT Alliance Regional Office Asia and the Pacific 
04/2016 – 02/2017 

Undergraduate Exchange Programme 

Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Konstanz, Germany 
09/2013 – 01/2018 

Bachelor of Art in Social Science (International Programme) 

Concentration on International Studies and Minor in German Language 

International College, Mahidol University 

06/2007 – 05/2011 

Pre-College Programme (Classical Performance) 

College of Music, Mahidol University  

Research Projects and Teaching/Training Activities

Research Projects

On-going: 

  • PhD topic : Co-Production of Buddhist Agroecological Knowledge in Thailand   
  • Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Approaches in Bioeconomy (4301-420)

You can find the projects here.