Researchers

prof. dr. Erik Hans Klijn
Complex decision-making in networks, network management, branding and media influence
Research into the role of branding, media attention and management effort in complex decision-making processes and public-private partnerships.
prof. dr. Joop Koppejan
Cooperation between public, private and civil society organisations without losing sight of public values
How can cooperation between public, private and civil society organisations be promoted when tackling social problems and providing public services without losing sight of public values?
prof. dr. Jurian Edelenbos
Vital networks, trust
Research into the vitality of (urban) networks, focusing on the role of trust in and management of networks. This research pays special attention to connecting leadership.
prof. dr. Martijn van der Steen
Steering in networks
Research into how governments can cooperate with each other and with civil society organisations to solve social tasks.
dr. ir. Lizet Kuitert
Securing public values by (semi-)public principals
Research into issues of value integration, focusing in particular on governments in the spatial domain. Looking for different routes to integrate physical, technical and social goals and what that means for social value management.
How do public clients safeguard values in a complex environment? And how do public and private actors deal with conflicts in the field of values?
d r. Ingmar van Meerkerk
Management of interactive forms of policy and governance
Research into the role, conditions, impact and challenges of boundary spanners and practices in the effective and legitimate shaping of partnerships between government, social parties and private parties (PPP, citizens' initiatives).
dr. Jose Nederhand
Legitimacy of citizen participation and citizen collectives
How can and will civil servants, administrators and representatives of the people test and steer good civic participation and civic collectives? How and by whom is 'good' defined?
dr. Rianne Warsen
Steering in networks and public-private partnerships
Collaborating with other public and private parties is daily business for public organisations. My research focuses on the design and management of such partnerships, so that public organisations and governments can jointly solve societal challenges. For example, how can we use contracts and the relationship between partners to steer cooperation in the right direction?
dr. Wouter Spekkink
The governance of sustainability
This research focuses on reconstructing and analysing the complex interaction processes in which governments, companies and/or social parties try to realise their different visions of more sustainable societies.
dr. Peter Marks
Collective decision-making and unlocking public values
Collective decision-making: research into the development and application of complexity sciences in understanding public decision-making processes, such as the Joint Strike Fighter's.
Unlocking public values: using a systematic approach to make public values in municipalities transparent and explicit so that municipalities can increase their effectiveness and support with the right interventions.
dr. Warda Belabas
Diversity, integration, identity and policy and (government) communication
Research on issues of diversity, integration, identity and policy and (government) communication. City branding research into local government practice, particularly in the cities of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Antwerp.
Hans Joosse, MSc
Policy and organisational development in a complex society
What does the intertwining and unpredictability of social issues mean for the way governments make policy and set up their organisation?
Rebecca Schrooten - van der Meer, MSc
Heading for powerful chains
Pilots are a common way of discovering or trying out new, innovative approaches in the public sector in practice. Increasingly, different organisations are working together in such a pilot. How can such chain cooperation - even after a pilot phase - become successful?