Dr. Franca Bülow

Franca Bülow is a Post doctoral fellow and scientific co-ordination of an interdisciplinary, Lower Saxony project consortium on the sustainability governance of global supply chains in the field of “Sustainability Policy and Governance of Global Value Chains (GVC)”.

She is a political scientist, and holds a PhD from the Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, where she worked on her dissertation ’Essays on (Mal)Adaptation to Climate Change and Environmental Problems'. She was also part of he EU-funded project Baltic Gender during that time.

Franca works in interdisciplinary contexts to advance our understanding of why and how people and institutions change. Her work revolves around climate change and resilience on the one hand and diversity, equity, and inclusion on the other hand. She studies effects of communication and framing on individuals, groups and organisations, combining linguistic and other data analysis, behavioural change experiments, and design thinking/scenario work with stakeholder engagement.

Franca has previously worked as a Lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand, Department of Environmental Management, where she was the academic Co-ordinator for the Master of Natural Resource Management and Ecological Engineering, a joint programme with BOKU, Vienna. Before that, she worked as a post doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Environment, Canterbury University, New Zealand, funded by Bioprotection Aotearoa, the National Science Challenge Resilience to Nature’s Challenges, and Te Punaha Matatini. For an overview of this work, click here.