Political Science

Main research areas

• Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda
• Multi-stakeholder partnerships
• Governmentality 

Current research

In my PhD project I approach questions of legitimacy and effectiveness of multi-stakeholder partnerships for the SDGs through the lens of governmentality with a focus on localization and participation.

I am particularly interested in exploring the complexity and messiness of governance through multi-stakeholder partnerships and the cultural, historic, and material context in which the implementation processes of the SDGs play out.

I aim to contribute to the theoretical understanding of multi-stakeholder partnerships as productive spaces of governance as well as empirical knowledge about power-relations and situated practices in the context of multi-stakeholder partnerships.