E-Mail: robin.schulze_waltrup@uni-bielefeld.de
Phone: +49 521 106-67631
Office: Gebäude X C2-219, Locations Map
Postbox: Nr. 398 im Gebäude X - Magistrale - Ebene C2
Doctoral Project (concluded):
Ideas and Discourses on Eco-Social Policy as a New Paradigm in Global Governance? Exploring the Merging of Environmental and Social Policy Ideas in the OECD and the World Bank
Since 10/2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Training Group "World Politics", Bielefeld University |
09/2022 - 01/2023 | Visiting Researcher at the Sustainability Research Institute of University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
10/2020 – 09/2023 | Doctoral Researcher at the Research Training Group "World Politics", Bielefeld University |
10/2018 - 08/2020 | MA Sociology, Bielefeld University (Scholarship holder "Deutschlandstipendium") |
04/2020 - 09/2020 | Research assistant at the Working Group "Transnational Social Policy", Bielefeld University |
09/2019 - 02/2020 | Exchange student at Gent University, Belgium (Erasmus+ Scholarship) |
11/2018 - 09/2019 | Research assistant at the Working Group "Transnational Social Policy", Bielefeld University |
10/2015 - 10/2018 | BA Political Science and Sociology, Bielefeld University |
08/2017 - 01/2018 | Exchange student at Umeå University, Sweden (Erasmus+ Scholarship) |
In recent years the study of ideas, discourses and paradigms has developed into prominent research not only at the level of nation-states but also at the global level of international organisations. While most studies focused on policy discourses either within global social or global environmental governance, this thesis takes an integrated perspective. Thus, reconstructing the emergence of eco-social policy discourses on a global level. Based on the notion of interpretative policy analysis, it investigates and conceptualises appearing eco-social policy scripts within the World Bank and the OECD. In doing so, the projects aims to integrate approaches out of various research strands such as policy research, world polity studies and qualitative discourse analysis - deriving data from document analysis and expert interviews.
Next to mapping the appearing eco-social policy concepts, the general guiding question of the analysis is wether the emergence of eco-social policy discourses on a global level represents a shift of policy paradigms or wether it should be considered as paradigm maintenance.
Schulze Waltrup, R. (2023). 'Eco-Social Policy in the Global Political Economy: Analysing Shifting Discourses of Agricultural Subsidies'. Presentation at the European International Studies Association Pan-European Conference, University of Potsdam, 5-9 September, Germany.