Dr. Julia Wittmayer is a sustainability transitions scholar with a background in social and cultural anthropology. She works as Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) and as senior researcher at DRIFT, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Starting from the assumption that processes of societal change are continuous and ongoing processes of searching and learning from and with another, one of her foci is on creating spaces for collaboration, learning and exchange between policy, science and society. Throughout the last decade, Julia has developed and implemented many collaborative research formats that are generative of critical knowledge and action regarding societal challenges in urban areas and on local scale or within the context of energy system change. Using such research formats, amongst others, she investigates the changing roles and relations of actors (i.e. social innovation) and their meaning-making in sustainability transitions. Next to being involved in or leading a variety of research projects, Julia provides policy advice to local and national government bodies across Europe.
