Dr. Eva Kunseler is a Fellow at the Athena Institute. She holds an academic interest in the institutionalisation of reflexive ways of working in knowledge-policy arenas. She is also a senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) where she coordinates a research programme and projects on reflexive evaluation and policy learning. Her current research project centers on transformative change in (climate) policy networks.
Eva holds a PhD in Environmental Policy Analysis and a MSc. in Environmental Health Sciences. Her PhD research developed insight into reflexive ways of working in science-based government advice. Her dissertation identifies that policy researchers find themselves in-between logics: they are inclined to adopt reflexive ways of working in response to wicked problems, but are bounded by the limits imposed by modernist structures, norms and ways of working in government institutions. Eva identified how epistemic alignment between co-existing logics takes shape in research practice.
Eva has previously worked on environmental risk assessment at PBL, at Finnish National Institute of Health, Welfare and the Environment (THL) and at the World Health Organisation (WHO) Environmental Health Centre. She also developed and coordinated a training programme for Dutch public knowledge organisations.
Expertise
Environmental Health, Policy Assessment, Science-Policy Interface, Policy Learning, Transformative Change, Transdisciplinary Research
