Dr. Katharina Heidtmann
Curriculum Vitae
Katharina Heidtmann joined the chair in December 2023 to work on the research project "Hemm den Wind - Obstacles to wind energy expansion in Germany" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). In the political science part of the project, she researches local direct-democratic procedures, such as citizens’ petitions and referendums, as well as the question under which conditions these procedures obstruct wind energy expansion. From 2018 until 2021, she completed her doctorate at the University of Oldenburg on the topic of non-compliance with EU environmental legislation at the local level in the context of multi-level governance. Since 2021 she also works in local climate protection, where she is engaged in climate change controlling, focusing on energy and greenhouse gas accounting, climate protection monitoring and municipal thermal planning, among others.
Education
| 15/01/2018- 22/03/2021 | Doctorate (project of the German Research Foundation, DFG), working group Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Department 1, University of Oldenburg Title of the dissertation: Multiple Principals, Agents, Policy Networks and Actors. Analysing Non-Compliance with EU Environmental Policy within a Multi-Level Governance context. |
| 09/2016-12/2017 | Environmental and Infrastructure Planning, Master of Science, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands |
| 10/2015-12/2017 | Water and Coastal Management, Master of Science, University of Oldenburg |
| 01/2014-05/2014 | Semester abroad at the Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 10/2012-08/2015 | Social Sciences, Bachelor of Arts, University of Oldenburg |
Positions
| Since 05/2024 | Supervision of theses in the Environmental Sciences distance course (infernum), FernUniversität in Hagen |
| Since 12/2023 | Research assistant, Hemm den Wind - Obstacles to wind energy expansion in Germany funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), Chair of Policy Research and Environmental Politics, Institute of Political Science, FernUniversität in Hagen |
| Since 04/2022 | Climate change controlling, Specialist Service Climate Protection, City of Oldenburg |
| 10/2021-03/2022 | Climate protection manager (temporary funding by the Zukunft Umwelt Gesellschaft gGmbH), Specialist Service 26 - Climate, Environment, Transport, City of Aurich |
| 06/2019-01/2021 | Deputy representative of doctoral students of Department 1 of the 3GO-Directorate, University of Oldenburg |
| 01/2018-01/2021 | Research assistant, Working Group Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Department 1 for Education and Social Sciences, University of Oldenburg |
| 01/2016-08/2016 | Research associate, Applied Geography and Environmental Planning and support of th Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of Oldenburg |
Research Interests
- (EU) Environmental policy
- Policy implementation
- Compliance
- Local politics
- Policy research
Publications & Review
| 2023 | Review for Public Administration |
| 2021 | Heidtmann, Katharina F.F. (2021). Multiple Principals, Agents, and Policy Networks and Actors. Analysing Non-Compliance with EU Environmental Policy within a Multi-level Governance Context, Dissertation, Universitätsbibliothek Oldenburg. |
| 2021 | Heidtmann, Katharina F.F. and Selck, T.J. (2021). Local level failure? Non-compliance of EU-environmental Policy within EU Multi-level Governance, Regional & Federal Studies, pp.1-20. |
| 2020 | Heidtmann, Katharina F.F. (2020). Politiknetzwerke innerhalb Multi-level Governance und ihre Konsequenzen für die Implementierung von EU-Umweltpolicies, In: Panschar, Slopinski, Berding and Rebmann (eds.), Zukunftsmodell: – Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann Verlag. |
