Nina Etter

PhD Student

Social and Cultural Geography

E-Mail
nina.etter@unibe.ch
Office
315
Postal Address
University of Bern
Institute of Geography
Social and Cultural Geography
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern
ORCID No
orcid.org/0009-0007-2124-8450

CV

Fields of Reserach

  • prison & carceral geographies
  • securitization & governance 
  • parenthood, family & the intimate
  • feminist geography
  • reproductive justice
  • qualitative methods, mixed-methods

Education

since 2025 PhD Student in Social and Cultural Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
as part of the SNSF-Project "Intimate Geographies of Family Fracturing"
2023 - 2025 Master of Science in Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland (summa cum laude)
Thesis: "Counting to Counter: Eine geographische Fallstudie über (die Dokumentation von) Elternschaft in den vier Justizvollzugsanstalten des Kantons Bern"
2023 (fall semester) Fulbright Visiting Student at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States
2019 - 2023 Bachelor of Science in Geography (Minor: Social Science), University of Bern, Switzerland (summa cum laude)
Thesis: „Carceral geographies of imprisoned motherhood: Exploring experiences of and governance towards mothers in the women’s prison in Hindelbank, Switzerland“
2017 - 2018 Passerelle Federal Matura, High School Neufeld, Berner Maturitätsschule für Erwachsene BME, Bern, Switzerland
2014 - 2017 Commercial Apprenticeship (kaufmännische Berufslehre), Business & Management School and Lawyer's Office Keller Degiorgi Schmutz Eisenhut, Bern, Switzerland

Professional Career

since 2025 Research Assistant in Social and Cultural Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
2021 - 2025 Student Assistant in Social and Cultural Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
2022 Student Assistant in Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Short-term contract for the production of an explanatory video about the TREE Study: https://tube.switch.ch/videos/xnmUmFDACd
2021 - 2022 Administration & Projects Employee, INFRAS Research and Consulting, Zürich & Bern, Switzerland
2018 - 2021 Marketing & Sales Associate, NOVO Business Consultants AG, Zürich & Bern, Switzerland
2017 - 2019 Legal Secretary, Lawyer's Office Keller Degiorgi Schmutz Eisenhut, Bern, Switzerland

Awards & Scholarships

2023 Fulbright Foreign Students Scholarship Switzerland (Visiting Student)
2023 - 2025 Scholarship of the Herbert Maissen-Stiftung, Zürich (Funding for Master's Programme)
2023 Bern Geography Excellence Award (Bachelor's Degree Award)

Publications

Publication Year Type

2025

Counting to counter - Eine geographische Fallstudie über (die Dokumentation von) Elternschaft in den vier Justizvollzugsanstalten des Kantons Bern, Masterarbeit der Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bern

Masterarbeit Nina Etter (PDF, 3.2 MB)