Project

Sustainability Leadership - Sabina Stiller

Sabina Stiller’s research revolves around analyzing leadership for sustainability and how such leadership relates to processes of governing change in areas such as climate adaptation and global commodity governance. This involves the role of long-term policy ideas, policy reforms and related challenges and more often than not, exploring collective forms of leadership involving public actors.

Connections with the PAP research programme include how such leadership contributes to action strategies as proposed by innovative governance approaches, how it fits in with existing governance systems, or how such leadership adapts the latter in order to enable innovative governance. Moreover, Sabina’s research relates to the themes of frame conflicts (looking at framing strategies by leaders), responsiveness (exploring how leaders respond to changing policy demands), dealing with uncertainties (looking at how these translate into leadership functions and strategies) and policy deadlocks (investigating how leaders can overcome institutional blockades and other forms of dysfunctional policy processes).