​Irina Sinziana OPINCARU

​Irina Sinziana OPINCARU, PhD Candidate / University of Bucharest, Doctoral School of Sociology / The Solidarity Lab (Romania)

Irina Opincaru is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania, with a dissertation entitled “Community participation in joint property management: comparative study of the forest and pasture commons in Romania” since 2016. Irina has ample research experience, both academic and applied, in the areas of cooperative practice, social economy and financial exclusion, being a researcher at the Institute of Social Economy, part of the Civil Society Development Foundation, Romania during 2013-2019. Irina was an active member of the small and enthusiast team of the project “Romanian Mountain Commons – Associative Environmentality”.