Professor für Pluralist & Heterodox Economics
An der Hochschule seit
- Oktober 2021
Gremien/Aufgaben
President
Schwerpunkt Lehrtätigkeit
- Heterodox and Pluralist Economics
- Sustainability Science
- Environmental Policy
- Methodology and Empirical Social Science Research
- Philosophy and Ethics of Economics
- International Political Economy
Module
- Pluralist Economics
- Sustainable Development
- Introduction to Political Science
- Introduction to Scientific Methods
- Globalization Studies
- Alternative SocioEconomic Organizations
- Environmental Policy
- Globalization From Below
- Behavioral Economics
Forschungsinteressen und -felder
Robert Lepenies betreut gerne BA-, MA- und PhD-Arbeiten in den Bereichen:
- Policy & Governance
- Environmental Policy
- Philosophy of Economics
- Political Philosophy
- Sustainability Studies
Akademische Aus- und Weiterbildung
- Dr. rer. pol. in Political Science (Governance), Hertie School of Governance Berlin (Thyssen Stipend)
- MSc in International Political Economy (Distinction), London School of Economics, Großbritannien
- BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford, The Queen’s College, Großbritannien
- Fulbright-Schuman Stipend, Global Justice Program, Yale University, USA
- Max-Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, Law Department, European University Institute, Italien (two years)
- ASK Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Practical Philosophy Department, Freie Universität Berlin (DAAD Rückgewinnungsstipendium)
- Visiting PhD Fellow, Social and Political Sciences Department, European University Institute, Italien
Praxiserfahrung
- Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig
- Lecturer and Guest lecturer positions:
- Fachhochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (Politik)
- Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (International Economic Thought; Governance)
- Freie Universität Berlin (Praktische Philosophie)
- London School of Economics (Visiting Teaching Certificate)
Aktuelle Bildungs- und Forschungsprojekte
- Ethics and Expertise in Times of Crisis with Jessica Pykett (Birmingham) & Holger Straßheim (Bielefeld)
- Water Quality Governance and the politics of chemical pollution with Frank Hüesker (Leipzig)
- Behavioral Public Policy and Nudging with Magdalena Malecka (Princeton) and others
- Sustainable Development Goals: The Politics of Indicators with Kurt Jax, Ilona Bärlund (Leipzig), Eeva Furman, Jari Lyytimäki, Eeva Primmer, Jyri Mustajoki (Helsinki), Nicolas Eckert, Raoul Mille (Paris) and others
- Citizen Science & Air Pollution with Lisa Herzog (Groningen), Ibrahim Sidi Zakari (Niamey)
- Several ongoing projects with Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig and Global Young Academy
Weitere Angaben
- Elected from 2016 – 2021 to the Global Young Academy for ‘Scientific Excellence and Service’ as one of 200 young scholars world-wide. Elected to the Executive Committee in 2019 and 2020.
- Selected to the International Science Council “The public value of science” council
- Full Member of the International Science for Poverty Eradication Committee of Interacademy Partnership, since 2017
- Recipient of the 2015 WIWA „Nachwuchspreis für Plurale Ökonomik“
- Successful H2020 Grant NEXOGENESIS for AI-aided policies for the water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) nexus (Governance Co-lead, declined)
Publikationen (Auswahl)
Peer-reviewed journal articles (selection)
- Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda
- Herzog, L. and Lepenies, R., 2022. Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment. Minerva, pp.1-20.
- Hüesker, F. and Lepenies, R., 2022. Why does pesticide pollution in water persist?. Environmental Science & Policy, 128, pp.185-193.
- Lehmann, P., de Brito, M.M., Gawel, E., Groß, M., Haase, A., Lepenies, R., Otto, D., Schiller, J., Strunz, S. and Thrän, D., 2021. Making the COVID-19 crisis a real opportunity for environmental sustainability. Sustainability Science, pp.1-9.
- Lehmann, P., Beck, S., de Brito, M.M., Gawel, E., Groß, M., Haase, A., Lepenies, R., Otto, D., Schiller, J., Strunz, S. and Thrän, D., 2021. Environmental Sustainability Post-COVID-19: Scrutinizing Popular Hypotheses from a Social Science Perspective. Sustainability, 13(16), p.8679.
- Lepenies, R. and Zakari, I.S., 2021. Citizen Science for Transformative Air Quality Policy in Germany and Niger. Sustainability, 13(7), 3973, 1-21.
- Lyytimäki, J., Salo, H., Lepenies, R., Büttner, L., and Mustajoki, J., 2020. Risks of producing and using indicators of sustainable development goals. Sustainable Development, 1–11.
- Zingraff-Hamed, A., Schröter, B., Schaub, S., Lepenies, R., Stein, U., Hüesker, F., Meyer, C., Schleyer, C., Schmeier, S. and Pusch, M.T., 2020. Perception of Bottlenecks in the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. Water Alternatives, 13, 458-483.
- Hendlin, Y.H., Arcuri, A., Lepenies, R., and Hüesker, F., 2020. The Politics of (Not) Assessing Glyphosate Concentrations in Aquatic Ecosystems. European Journal of Risk Regulation 11, Nr. 3: 539–64.
- Lepenies, R., Hüesker, F., Beck, S. and Brugnach, M., 2018. Discovering the political implications of coproduction in water governance. Water, 10 (10), 1475. 1-16.
- Lepenies, R., Mackay, K. and Quigley, M., 2018. Three challenges for behavioural science and policy: the empirical, the normative and the political. Behavioural Public Policy, 2(2), pp.174-182.
- Lepenies, R., and Małecka, M., 2015. The Institutional Consequences of Nudging – Nudges, Politics, and the Law. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6, Nr. 3: 427–37.
Peer-reviewed book chapters (selection)
- Hahn, H. and Lepenies, R., 2017. Wissenschaft als politischer Beruf: Die Sustainable Development Goals als realistische Utopie. In Globale politische Ziele, edited by Lepenies P. & Sondermann E., 169–94. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
- Lepenies, R., and Małecka, M., 2019. Behaviour Change: Extralegal, Apolitical, Scientistic? In Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy, edited by Straßheim, H. & Beck, S., 344-60, Edward Elgar.
- Malecka, M. and Lepenies, R., 2018. Is the Behavioral Approach a Form of Scientific Imperialism?: An Analysis of Law and Policy. Scientific Imperialism Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity, edited by Uskali Mäki, Adrian Walsh, Manuela Fernández Pinto. Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society. pp. 254-273.
- Kersting, F., Lepenies, R. and Neef, T., 2019. Mehr als nur Werkzeuge. In Perspektiven einer pluralen Ökonomik (pp. 209-229). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
- Lepenies, R., and Małecka, M., 2019 “The Ethics of Behavioural Public Policy“. In The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, edited by Lever, A. and Poama,A., 513–25. Routledge.
Books
- Beck, V., Hahn, H., and Lepenies, R., Eds. 2020. Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustices, Activism. Philosophy and Poverty. Springer International Publishing. 441 pages. (reviewed in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics; Review of Income & Wealth; Studies of Transition States and Societies)