Dr. Heike Walk
Professor at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
TRANSECTS Co-Director (Germany)
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- Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany
Heike Walk is a Professor for Transformation Governance at the Faculty of Forest and Environment and for Transformative Innovation and Service Learning at the Faculty of Sustainable Business at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development.
She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the “Freie Universität Berlin” and a habilitation in political science from the “Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster”. The main research topics are citizen participation, civil society, multi-level governance, sustainable development and transformative Science.
From 2015 until 2016 she was director of the Environmental Policy Research Center at Freie Universität Berlin and of the Berlin Institute for Protest and Social Movement Studies. In addition, she was deputy managing director at the Center for Technology and Society at the Technical University of Berlin. There she established several research areas (participation, governance, social movements, climate and energy). Since 2003 she has been co-editor of the book series "Civil Society and Democracy" at the publishing house “Springer Fachmedien”.