Dr. Franca Bülow

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, 11.106
Fon +49.4131.677-1582, franca.buelow@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professorship of Governance and Sustainability

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Vita

Franca Bülow is a Post doctoral fellow and scientific co-ordination of an interdisciplinary, Lower Saxony project consortium on the sustainability governance of global supply chains in the field of “Sustainability Policy and Governance of Global Value Chains (GVC)”.

 

She is a political scientist, and holds a PhD from the Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, where she worked on her dissertation ’Essays on (Mal)Adaptation to Climate Change and Environmental Problems'. She was also part of he EU-funded project Baltic Gender during that time.

Franca works in interdisciplinary contexts to advance our understanding of why and how people and institutions change. Her work revolves around climate change and resilience on the one hand and diversity, equity, and inclusion on the other hand. She studies effects of communication and framing on individuals, groups and organisations, combining linguistic and other data analysis, behavioural change experiments, and design thinking/scenario work with stakeholder engagement.

Franca has previously worked as a Lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand, Department of Environmental Management, where she was the academic Co-ordinator for the Master of Natural Resource Management and Ecological Engineering, a joint programme with BOKU, Vienna. Before that, she worked as a post doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Environment, Canterbury University, New Zealand, funded by Bioprotection Aotearoa, the National Science Challenge Resilience to Nature’s Challenges, and Te Punaha Matatini. For an overview of this work, click here.

 

Projects

  1. Research Consortium ‘Sustainability governance of global value chains’
    Jens Newig (Project manager, academic) , (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Franca Bülow (Coordination) , Barbara Ehbauer (Project staff) , Jelto Makris (Project staff) , Jelena Bäumler (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Elke Schüßler (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Stefan Schaltegger (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Patrick Velte (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , Alexander Schall (Co-Projectmanager, academic) , (Project manager, academic) , (Project manager, academic) , (Project manager, academic) , (Project staff) , Kathleen Evers (Project staff) , Nora Große (Project staff) , Finn Jonas Bongert (Project staff) , (Project staff) , (Project staff) , (Project staff) , (Project staff) , (Project staff) , (Project staff) , Saumya Satishbhai Raval (Project staff)
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Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Promoting diversity of thought: bridging knowledge systems for a pluriverse approach to research
    Franca Bülow (Author) , Jade Gibson (Author) , Nina Vargoczky (Author) , Ann L. Brower (Author) , Amanda D. Black (Author) , 01.12.2025 , in: Earth Science, Systems and Society, 5, 1 , 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Communicating change, transition, and transformation for adaptation in agriculture: a comparative analysis of climate change communication in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    Franca Bülow (Author) , Albert Liao (Author) , Nicholas Cradock-Henry (Author) , Ann Brower (Author) , 01.09.2025 , in: Regional Environmental Change, 25, 3 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Engagement for genetic modification technologies in conservation: For whom, how, and for what ends?
    Sylvia Nissen (Author) , Franca Bülow (Author) , Riley Taitingfong (Author) , Amanda Black (Author) , 01.09.2025 , in: Environmental Science & Policy, 171 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research

  4. Framing resilience: Post-disaster communication in Aotearoa-New Zealand
    Franca Bülow (Author) , Ann Brower (Author) , Nicholas Cradock-Henry (Author) , 01.02.2025 , in: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 117 , 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. How does collaborative freshwater governance affect legitimacy? Comparative analysis of 14 cases of collaboration in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2009 and 2017
    Franca Bülow (Author) , Lea Delsault (Author) , Ann L. Brower (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Policy Studies, 46, 3 , p. 391-414 , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Courses