Wencke Gwozdz

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

It is great to be part of such a great project where scientific evidence is made accessible to relevant and interested actors and decision-makers. This project has a big potential of knowledge brokerage between academics, policymakers, industry representatives, NGOs, and actors from other organizations

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Topic spokesperson

Current position

Associate Professor in Transformative Consumer Behaviour and Sustainability, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Research interest

Transformative consumer behavior, sustainable consumption, behavioral economics, social marketing, health behavior

Past positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (09/2010–12/2012); Postdoc, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (09/2009–08/2010); PhD student, Chair for Household and Consumer Economics as well as Gender Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany (07/2005–02/2009)

Qualifications

PhD Economics and Business Administration, University of Hohenheim, 2009

Selected publications

  • “Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children.” Economics & Human Biology 18 (2015): 139–152 (with A. Sousa-Poza, L. Reisch, K. Bammann, G. Eiben, Y. Kourides, E. Kovacs, F. Lauria, K. Konstabel, A. M. Santaliestra-Pasias, K. Vyncke, and I. Pigeot).

  • “Maternal employment and childhood obesity: A European perspective.” Journal of Health Economics 32:4 (2013): 728–742 (with A. Sousa-Poza, L. Reisch, W. Ahrens, G. Eiben, J. M. Fernández-Alvira, C. Hadjigeorgiou, S. De Henauw, E. Kovács, F. Lauria, T. Veidebaum, G. Williams, and K. Bammann).

  • “Socioeconomic factors and childhood overweight in Europe: Results from the multi-centre IDEFICS study.” Pediatric Obesity 8:1 (2013): 1–12 (with K. Bammann, A. Lanfer, J. M. Fernández-Alvira, E. Kovács, G. Barba, S. De Henauw, G. Eiben, M. Tornaritis, T. Veidebaum, and I. Pigeot).

  • “Instruments for analyzing the influence of advertising on children’s food choices.” International Journal of Obesity 35 (2011): S137–S143 (with L. Reisch).

  • “Ageing, health and life satisfaction of the oldest old: An analysis for Germany.” Social Indicators Research 97:3 (2010): 397–417 (with A. Sousa-Poza).