The research group currently consists of an international team of six members of staff which is supported by three part-time student assistants.

Visiting research fellows enrich our group for limited periods.

An international advisory board comprises interdisciplinary expertise from a variety of research strands on which the research group draws.

Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Voß
Head of research group
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 314-25848
jan-peter.voss[at]tu-berlin.de

Dr. Carsten Mann
Deputy head of research group
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 314-28872
mann[at]ztg.tu-berlin.de

Dipl.-Soz. Nina Amelung
Research associate & doctoral candidate
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 314-28869
amelung[at]ztg.tu-berlin.de

Arno Simons, M.A.
Research associate & doctoral candidate
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 314-28870
arno.simons[at]tu-berlin.de

Thomas Crowe, M.A.
Project manager
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 314-28871
crowe[at]ztg.tu-berlin.de

Louisa Grabner
Student assistant
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 314-28871
grabner[at]ztg.tu-berlin.de

Jan Hussels
Student assistant
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 314-28871
jan_tu[at]mailbox.tu-berlin.de 

Innovation in Governance Research Fellows

The Innovation in Governance Research Group invites applications by researchers who would like to come and join our team at the Technische Universität Berlin for a limited period of time. Apart from intellectual inspiration, nice and friendly people to work with and a pleasant working atmosphere, we are able to offer fellowships that cover expenses for travel and accommodation.

Endre Dányi (September 2011 – March 2012)

Endre Dányi is about to finish his PhD at the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. His doctoral research focuses on the Hungarian Parliament as a specific place in the centre of Budapest, and examines multiple political realities held together by a singular building that is both older and younger than democracy in Hungary. The research itself is part of a larger project called 'Relocating Innovation: Places and Material Practices of Future Making' – a joint effort with Lucy Suchman and Laura Watts to reconceptualise innovation through a comparative analysis of three sites of technical invention and political change.

As visiting fellow at the Innovation in Governance research group, Endre will work on smoking ban as a particular policy instrument.

Personal website

Eleftheria Vasileiadou (June – July 2011)

Eleftheria Vasileiadou is Assistant Professor in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Institute for Environmental Studies, at the VU University Amsterdam. Her research focuses on three broad themes:

Distributed governance of environmental issues: She is currently working on adaptation options for extreme weather events in the Netherlands, by bringing together different societal actors and climate modelers. She has also worked on the role of stakeholder consultations in the EU energy policy.

Science production and communication: She is currently involved in a project on how geo-engineering research as post-normal science can be governed. She has been working on the use and impact of ICTs in science (e-science), and on management of collaborative research.

Complexity theory and methodology: She has been working on methodological aspects of complex adaptive systems, namely on how can we operationalise positive and negative feedback loops with ARIMA modeling. She has also applied complexity theory and insights on sustainability transitions theory, to provide a research agenda.

Personal website

Sonja van der Arend (May 2011)

Sonja van der Arend works as a postdoc researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her main task is to study the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive, specifically the democratic effects of its governance innovations, such as public participation and performance measurement by ecological indicators.

Sonja uses interpretive methods and theories to investigate environmental policy practices and develop critical perspectives on participatory and deliberative governance. She publishes on topics such as the limits to institutional design of participation, how participants act upon participatory governance, the rise of the discourse of interactive policy making, the professionalisation of facilitators and process managers, and the meaning of policy success and failure in governance and policy practices.

Website

Linda Soneryd (April – September 2011)

Linda (PhD Sociology, 2002 Örebro University) is associate professor and research fellow at Score (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research), Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics. She has been research director (since 2008) and deputy director (since 2009) at Score. From September 2011 she will be a lecturer at the Sociology Department, University of Gothenburg. Her research has mainly focused on public consultations and public dialogue initiated by government authorities on controversial issues such as nuclear waste siting and mobile telephone infrastructure.

She has also published on risk regulation, GM crops and co-existence, and recently on lifestyles and the environment. In her work on public consultation/public dialogue on techno-scientific issues, she has focused on the organizational aspects of such events and what kind of public are constructed through means of selecting and inviting participations as well as the forms of interaction that are used.

List of publications (link to Score website)

 

Prof. Marie-Laure Djelic, PhD
ESSEC Business School, Paris, France

Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Anita Engels
University of Hamburg, Germany

Prof. Frank Fischer
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA

Prof. Carl Folke
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

Prof. Dr. Bernd Hansjürgens
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kuhlmann
University of Twente, Netherlands

Prof. Patrick LeGalès, PhD
Sciences Po, Paris, France

Prof. Dr. Sigrid Quack
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

Prof. Dr. Werner Rammert
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Arie Rip
University of Twente, Netherlands

Prof. Andy Stirling, PhD
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin, Germany