Livia Fritz
EPFL ENAC IIE HERUS
GR A1 465 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://herus.epfl.ch/
Biography
I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory on Human- Environment Relations in Urban System (HERUS) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In my research and teaching, I am interested in participation processes and the interlinkages between knowledge, policy-making and societal change in the field of sustainability. As a social scientist in an interdisciplinary environment, I enjoy exploring how social theories and concepts can support us in making sense of what happens within science-policy systems and in identifying levers for improving these complex interfaces for sustainability governance.As fellow of the TdAcademy, I am currently a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Berlin and Leuphana University. Prior to joining HERUS as doctoral assistant, I was project researcher at the Chair for Human-Environment Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, junior researcher at the Austrian Foundation for Development Research (OEFSE) and gained experience in policy advice in both bilateral and multilateral development institutions (UNIDO, GIZ). I studied development studies with a focus on political science at the University of Vienna and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and received my PhD from EPFL.
Awards
Best Paper Award 2020 by the GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society journal
For the article "Tracing power in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an exploration" (GAIA 1/2020)
2020
ISDRS Best Sustainable Development Article Award, “First runner-up”
for the article: "Participation as Relational Space: A Critical Approach to Analysing Participation in Sustainability Research."
2018
PhD thesis nominated for the “EPFL Doctorate award” and “The Doctoral Program Distinction"
2020
Publications
Infoscience publications
Journal Articles
Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2022-05-17. DOI : 10.1057/s41599-022-01197-2.Activities, Housing Situation and Other Factors Influencing Psychological Strain Experienced During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland
Frontiers in Psychology. 2021-09-28. DOI : 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735293.How the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland affected residential preferences
Cities & Health. 2021-09-14. DOI : 10.1080/23748834.2021.1982231.‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility
Mobilities. 2021-05-19. DOI : 10.1080/17450101.2021.1919491.Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights
Science and Public Policy. 2020-12-25. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scaa066.Tracing power in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an exploration
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 2020-03-26. DOI : 10.14512/gaia.29.1.9.Whose knowledge, whose values? An empirical analysis of power in transdisciplinary sustainability research
European Journal of Futures Research. 2020-02-24. DOI : 10.1186/s40309-020-0161-4.Participation-effect pathways in transdisciplinary sustainability research: An empirical analysis of researchers’ and practitioners’ perceptions using a systems approach
Environmental Science and Policy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.08.010.Participation as Relational Space: A Critical Approach to Analysing Participation in Sustainability Research
Sustainability. 2018-08-11. DOI : 10.3390/su10082853.Living up to Policy Coherence for Development? The OECD's disciplines on tied aid financing
Development Policy Review. 2017. DOI : 10.1111/dpr.12264.Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments
Physical Review Letters. 2015-05-14. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803.Conference Papers
(De‑)Constructing Participation at the Science‑Policy Interface: A Critical Inquiry
2017. ECPR General Conference, Oslo, Norway, 06.09-09.09.2017.Books
Export Promotion or Development Policy? A Comparative Analysis of Soft Loan Policies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands
Vienna: Südwind Publishing.Theses
The politics of participation in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an analysis of knowledge, values and power at the science-society interface
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7407.Book Chapters
Vom Öffnen und Verschließen von Alternativen: Implikationen der gesellschaftlichen Einbettung nachhaltigkeitsrelevanter Wertvorstellungen
Gesellschaftliche Transformationen: Gegenstand oder Aufgabe der Technikfolgenabschätzung?; Nomos, 2021. p. 185-198.How Values Play into Sustainability Assessments: Challenges and a Possible Way Forward
Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems; Cambridge University Press, 2020-03-01. p. 65-86.The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power
Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems; Cambridge University Press, 2020-03-01. p. 87-122.(De - )Constructing Participation in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research: A Critical Review of Key Concepts
Schafft Wissen: Gemeinsames und geteiltes Wissen in Wissenschaft und Technik: Proceedings der 2. Tagung des Nachwuchsnetzwerks; SSOAR, 2018-07-30.Working Papers
The Future of Soft Loans as an Instrument of Development Finance: an Assessment
2014Soft Loans as an Instrument of Development Finance: A Comparative Assessment and Options for the Future
2014Living up to Policy Coherence for Development? The OECD's Disciplines on Tied Aid Financing
2014Reports
Corona Citizen Science Research Team. Regards sur le futur / Perspectives.
2020Corona Citizen Science Research Team. Les expériences de la crise/Experiences of the crisis
2020Posters
Societal impacts through participation: a critical investigation of participation as an enabler of societal impact of sustainability research
Resilience for Global Sustainability Conference 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-23, 2017.A critical inquiry into participatory research practices in the field of sustainability [Eine kritische Betrachtung von Partizipation in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung]
Statussymposium Wissenschaft für Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Hannover, Germany, January 23-24, 2017.Transformation through Participation? A critical inquiry into participatory research practices in the field of sustainability
International Sustainability Transistions Conference “Exploring Transition Research as Transformative Science”, Wuppertal, Germany, September 6-9, 2016.Talks
Hegemony in institutional transformation. Thesis from a work in progress
TdAcademy Webinar, Online, December 9, 2021.The politics of participation in transdisciplinary sustainability research: a power perspective
Lunch Seminar, Centre for Technology and Society, Technical University of Berlin.Exploring residential preferences before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Switzerland
International Conference on Environmental Psychology ICEP 2021, Siracusa, Italy, Octobre 05- 08, 2021.Navigating power in transdisciplinary research: From reflection to resistance
2021 International Transdisciplinarity Conference (ITD), “Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation”, [Online] Zürich, Switzerland, 13-17 September 2021.Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021, Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation (ITD 2021), Zürich, Suisse (Online), Septembre 13-17, 2021.The potential of tactical urbanism to leverage the Covid-19 crisis for a sustainability transition in urban mobility
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Virtual, 31 August-3 September, 2021.Approche participative face à la crise COVID-19 : quels scénarios pour demain? Mobile crowdsourcing et Citizen Think Tanks
Conference Cycle "Territoires intimes et domestiques de la Suisse semi-confinée: 3 regards", organised by "Mobilités et Usages Soutenables du Territoire" (MUST) Association, Online conference, Février 3, 2021.Expected and experienced effects of participation –a systemic analysis of perceptions of researchers and practitioners in sustainability research
International Transdisciplinarity Conference: Joining Forces for Change, Gothenburg, Sweden, 10.09-13.09.2019.Tracing power relations in five sustainability research projects.
International Transdisciplinarity Conference: Joining Forces for Change, Gothenburg, Sweden, 10.09-13.09.2019.Die Politik von Wissensproduktion für eine nachhaltige Gesellschaftstransformation: eine Analyse der soziotechnologischen Wirkmächtigkeit partizipativer Nachhaltigkeitsbewertungen
Gesellschaftliche Transformationen: Gegenstand oder Aufgabe der Technikfolgenabschätzung?, Karlsruhe, Germany, 6-8 November, 2018.Analysedimensionen für den Link zwischen partizipativen Prozessen und gesellschaftlichen Wirkungen in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Qualitäts- und wirkungsvolle transdisziplinäre Forschung – Meta-Perspektiven, Frankfurt a. M., Germany, September 25, 2018.The contours of participation spaces: an empirical enquiry into the making of participation in sustainability research
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018, Cardiff, UK, 26.08-2018-30.08.2018.Making spaces of participation: an enquiry into researchers' and practice actors' narrations of participatory knowledge production in sustainability research
EASST 2018 Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society together, Lancaster, UK, 25-28th July 2018.How do participation of practice partners and societal impacts interrelate? Perspectives from sci- ence and practice actors in transdisciplinary sustainability research projects
Internationa Transdisciplinarity Conference 2017 , Transdisciplinary Research and Education – Intercultural Endeavours, Lüneburg, Germany, 11.09-15.09.2017.Participation practices in transdisciplinary sustainability research -an empirical enquiry
2nd PhD's in Transition s Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 27.-27.04, 2017.Der Evaluationsprozess im Programm Wissenschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung
Statussymposium "Wissenschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung", Hannover, Germany, January 23–24, 2017.Beteiligung an Begutachtungsprozessen am Beispiel der Begleitforschung „Wissenschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung“, Impuls-Referat an der Tagung „Kultur der Verantwortung - Transparenz in der Wissenschaft“
Conference "Kultur der Verantwortung - Transparenz in der Wissenschaft", Hannover, Germany, May 11, 2016.Bringing participation discourses into conversation: the contours of participation in sustainability research
2nd Interdisciplinary Conference for Junior Researchers in Science and Technology Studies “Collaborative and Shared Knowledge in Science and Technology”, Munich, Germany, October 7-8, 2016.The Contours of Participatory Dynamics in Sustainability Research at Science-Society Interface
International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum “The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World“, Vienna, Austria, July 10-14, 2016.Partizipation in und Transformationspotenzial von transdisziplinären Projekten
Statussymposium „Wissenschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung“, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, January, 23-24th, 2016.Beteiligung an Begutachtungsprozessen am Beispiel der Begleitforschung „Wissenschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung“
Tagung „Kultur der Verantwortung - Transparenz in der Wissenschaft“, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany, May 11, 2016.Teaching & PhD
Courses
Sustainability assessment of urban systems
This course provides students with the ability to critically reflect on sustainability and perform a sustainability assessment based of problems in urban areas. At the end of the course students are able to develop a own sustainability assessment with the Sustainability Solution Space methodology.