Katrien Van Poeck

Researcher at Department of Education

Email:
katrien.vanpoeck[AT-sign]edu.uu.se
Visiting address:
von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala
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Katrien Van Poeck is affiliated to Uppsala University as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. She conducts research on environmental and sustainability education, in particular on experiential learning in the context of urban sustainability transitions, on open schooling in relation to sustainability challenges and on sustainability in higher education. Her Marie Skłodowska-Curie project focuses on ‘University education as a driver for sustainability transitions’.

Keywords: higher education education for sustainable development learning education academic teaching in higher education teaching sustainability transition

Katrien Van Poeck has a PhD in educational sciences (2013, University of Leuven) and a Master in social work (2006, Ghent University). During her Master studies that she did after having worked for some years as an educator and as a policy advisor for the government of Flanders (Belgium), she developed a strong interest in research on environmental and sustainability education (ESE). When returning to her job at the Flemish government, she combined her function there with doctoral studies at the University of Leuven (2009-2013). Since then, her research has focused on the role of education in relation to building a more sustainable world.

Since 2016, Katrien coordinates the Centre for Sustainable Development’s research line on sustainability education at Ghent University. There, she conducts and supervises several ESE research projects and she is the coordinator of the International Thematic Network SEDwise (‘Sustainability Education – Teaching and learning in the face of wicked socio-ecological problems’) and the scientific research network ‘Public pedagogy and sustainability challenges’.

From 2020-2024 she is half-time affiliated to Uppsala University as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow where she conducts research on how university education can fruitfully contribute to sustainability transitions. She is a member of the research group SMED – Studies of Meaning-making in Educational Discourses.

Katrien Van Poeck conducts and supervises research on environmental and sustainability education. Theoretically, her work has been inspired by authors in the fields of educational theory, political theory, sustainability transition studies and science and technology studies. Methodologically and empirically, pragmatist analytical methods largely inspire her recent work. Katrien has a special interest in the relation between ESE research and practice and aims to foster the co-creation of better ESE in collaborative settings with researchers and practitioners.

Her ongoing and previous research projects focus on experiential learning in the context of urban sustainability transitions, on open schooling in relation to sustainability challenges and on sustainability in higher education:

Publications: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/001998783414

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4244-5596

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=9KbQRgwAAAAJ&hl=nl

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