Belgian Team
University of Antwerp
Ann Crabbé
Guest professor, Department of Sociology, Centre of Research on Environmental and Social Change
Ann is a senior researcher at the department of Sociology of the University of Antwerp, where she is affiliated to the Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (since 2000). She is part-time guest professor in the bachelor and master educational programmes of the University of Antwerp’s Faculty of Social Sciences, and with colleagues from the natural sciences she coordinates university wide-interdisciplinary courses on climate change and sustainability. Building on a PhD in Political and Social Sciences for University of Antwerp (2008), her research projects cover many subjects that can be clustered under ‘governance of sustainability issues’: characterizing or evaluating environmental policies, organizing science-policy dialogues on environmental (health) risks, analysis of flood risk governance, governance of drought etc. Ann is particularly interested in explaining institutional stability and change, policy evaluation methodologies and organizing multi-actor dialogues. Ann has a long-term history in researching governance aspects of flood risk governance in Flanders/Belgium and in an international comparative perspective. Teaming up with Mandy Paauw, Ann will dedicate 20% of her working time to the SOLARIS project.
Mandy Paauw
PhD researcher, Department of Sociology, Centre of Research on Environmental and Social Change
Mandy is master in sustainable development, graduated in July 2020 from University of Utrecht with a master thesis on ‘Working with Nature: The environmental and policy feasibility of nature-based adaptation (NbA) to address anthropogenic stress in the Rhine and Mekong deltas’. Between October 2020 and March 2021, she has worked as a junior researcher at the ‘Water, Climate and Futu re Deltas’ (WCFD) hub at Utrecht University. She worked on two projects. The first project was about sustainable sediment management from an interdisciplinary perspective, for which she contributed to a scientific paper, a Wikipedia page, and a workshop hosted in December 2020. The second project, which started in January 2021, focuses on synthesising the work of the WCFD hub and write storylines to present on a forthcoming website. Since April 2021, Mandy works at University of Antwerp as a PhD candidate on scholarship. She is fulltime engaged in the JPI Climate commissioned SOLARIS research on socio-spatial (in)justice in flood risk management, in which she is particularly responsible for doing Belgian case study research.
Megan Hermans
Financial account manager, Dean’s office of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Megan Hermans is financial account manager at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Antwerp. She has been working at the Dean’s office since 2018.