Weaving Knowledges for a more Sustainable and Fair Circular Economy: A Framework for Respectful and Collaborative Indigenous Research in Australia

What started as a research on Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the circular economy (CE), turned into a much more complex and personal journey of what it means to do respectful and collaborative research with Indigenous communities. In this thesis, I attempted to build an understanding of the very rich and complex tapestry of...

Managing Leadership Development from a Gender Equity perspective: A case study approach in a typical materials company

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are one of the latest topics getting attention among companies and universities. This reflects societal representation for gender ratios and many organizations have set goals on gender equality in creating a sustainable and innovative workplace. However, the statistics show that there is sluggish growth for women...

Performance Assessment of Industrial-scale n-Caproate Production utilizing CO2 as Feedstock: A comparitive study between different n-caproate production pathways at the Port of Rotterdam

The Port of Rotterdam is one of the largest CO2 emitters of the Netherlands. One method to reduce its emissions is by implementing carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies. In this research two different CCU routes for industrial-scale n-caproate production are compared. The first route utilizes microbial electrosynthesis (direct route)...

Mapping Demonstrations of a Sustainability Policy Crisis: Online and Offline Events during the Dutch Nitrogen Crisis

in this research, I study the Nitrogen Crisis by comparing Twitter content to real-life events, answering the following research question: How does the intensity of emotions and discussed topics on social media relate to the characteristics of real-life demonstrations during a sustainability policy crisis? To characterise online events,...

Investigating whether the engagement of citizens in energy communities could lead to a rise in energy justice

Energy Communities are initiatives ran by members of the same or different communities with the aim of producing, distributing and consuming cleaner energy. The potential of these initiatives, as identified from this clean energy production, to play a key role in the energy transition is assumed to be vital as recognized by the European...