School of Earth and Environment
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Lena Kruckenberg Lena Kruckenberg

Postgraduate Student

Email address: eeljk@leeds.ac.uk
Room: G13, 10-12 Cromer Terrace

Qualifications

  • MRes with  Distinction in Sociology (Bielefeld University, Germany, 2010)
  • MA with Distinction in International Relations (Keele University, UK, 2007)
  • Work experience in academic research and administration (University of Leeds, Keele University, University College Dublin, Bielefeld University)

Research Interests

Sustainable development; cross-sector collaborations; alliance formation; renewable energy technologies; rural electrification; human rights; organisational ethnography; extended case method; agent-based modelling

Project details

Project title

Empowering partnerships: How innovative cross-sector collaborations provide renewable energy systems to rural communities in emerging economies

Supervisors

Professor Andy Gouldson and Dr Hinrich Voss (LUBS)

Funding

Research funded by the University of Leeds (University Research Scholarship)

Start date

1st October 2011

Project outline

The project investigates multi‐stakeholder partnerships that provide renewable energy systems to poor communities in emerging economies. It aims at exploring the collaborative and competitive practices, strategies, relationships, and institutions of such partnerships, and their engagement with local communities. This is to be achieved through a research programme which combines the in‐depth ethnographic exploration of 2‐3 partnerships with an analysis of their macro conditions (‘extended case study’). The results of the first part of the study will inform computer simulations (‘agent‐based models’) of the co‐creative processes and elementary dynamics of ‘empowering partnerships’, and their relations with the targeted communities. The resulting models will improve theory evaluation and (re)construction; it is envisioned to develop these as experimental learning tools for consultants and project leaders in the field.

Publications

‘The UNreal world of human rights. An ethnography of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 186 pages, 2011. ISBN 978-3-8329-6643-0.

‘Politics of Difference and Activism at Intersections: Romani Women in Eastern and Central Europe’. In: Lee, Yoke-Lian (Ed.): The Politics of Gender. A Survey. Routledge, 25-45, 2010. 

with A. Brandes and P. Ahrweiler: ‘R&D Governance Rules of the EU Framework Programmes: The EURuleD Archive’. NEMO Working Paper 6, 2008.