Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Nicolina Kirby

Nicolina Kirby

Research Associate

E-Mail

nicolina [dot] kirby [at] rifs-potsdam [dot] de

Nicolina Kirby is research associate in the research group "Co-creation and contemporary policy advice" at the RIFS. She works on sustainable mobility, urban and democratic transformations and political participation.

She received her M.A. in Political Science from the University of Potsdam and completed her B.Sc. in European Public Administration in Münster, Enschede and Prague. In October 2021 she began her PhD at the University of Stuttgart on the effects of political participation on social and urban resilience.

  • Since 10/2021 PhD candidate at the University of Stuttgart
  • Since 12/2020: Research Associate at the IASS Potsdam
  • 04/2016 - 11/2020: M.A. Political Sciences at the University of Potsdam
  • 10/2017 - 03/2020: Project Assistant at the think tank "Das Progressive Zentrum" in Berlin
  • 10/2013 - 03/2017: B.Sc. "European Public Administration" at the Universities of Münster, Twente and Prague

  • Participatory and deliberative democratic theory
  • Dialogue-oriented participatory processes and democratic innovations
  • Sustainable mobility and mobility transition

Publications at the RIFS