Critical Conservation

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  • Call for applications: Join our team

    🎓 We’re Hiring: Join the Critical Conservation Research Team at HKB! Are you passionate about conservation, heritage, and critical research? The Bern University of Applied Sciences – Academy of the Arts (HKB) is recruiting for four roles in the SNSF-funded project Critical Conservation—a bold, interdisciplinary initiative rethinking conservation as a pluricultural, political, and epistemic practice.…

  • This site is being developed

    Thank you for your patience, while we are developing this website. In the meantime, please click on “What is Conservation” to learn more about our program.

  • Swiss Research Council grants support!

    In Spring 2025, the Swiss National Science Foundation announced its support for our new four-year research initiative, Critical Conservation. This generous support will enable a team of scholars, researchers, and practitioners to engage with emerging trends in contemporary conservation while critically revisiting established domains, theorems, and paradigms. Building on the significant outcomes of our previous…