Dr. Ilkay Unay-Gailhard
Research Associate
Department:
Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas (Structural Change)
Dr. Ilkay Unay-Gailhard
Research Associate
Department:
Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas (Structural Change)
Young farmers
Rural youth
Rural sociology
Digital communication
Agricultural, and environmental policy analyses
Discrete choice analysis
Dr. Ilkay Unay-Gailhard got her Master's in Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy from the University of Montpellier and SupAgro, France, in 2008. She completed her traineeship at OECD, Paris, and worked for two years as a lecturer at Northeast Normal University, Economics Department, China. In 2016, she received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from Martin Luther University, Germany. Since 2010 she has been working as a researcher at IAMO.
In 2020 Dr. Unay-Gailhard was awarded the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship for her research project "YOUNG FARMERS - What can digital communications do for generational renewal in farming?", and hosted by UNESCO Chair for Community, Leadership, and Youth Development at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), USA as a UNESCO fellow for the years 2021-2023.
- ENHANCE – Building an Excellency Network for Heightening Agricultural Economic Research and Education in Romania
- KULUNDA – How to prevent the next "Global Dust Bowl"? – Ecological and Economic Strategies for Sustainable Land Management in the Russian Steppes: A Potential Solution to Climate Change
- PPP Slovenia 2020 – Young Farmer Payments: effectiveness of policy implementations after the 2013 CAP reform in Slovenia
- PPP Slowenien 2017 – Assessment of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Pillar II measures upon on-farm employment
- PhD Thesis project: Structural change in rural Europe: Land-use and labour behavior
- Postdoctoral project: Becoming a young farmer in the digital age - an island perspective
- Rural NEET Youth Network: Modellierung der Risiken, die der sozialen Ausgrenzung ländlicher NEETs zugrunde liegen
- SURE-Farm – Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems
- YOUNG FARMERS – What can digital communications do for generational renewal in farming?