Dr. Uta Wehn is Associate Professor of Water Innovation Studies at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands. A social scientist from the field of innovation studies with a background in ICTs, she draws on more than 20 years of combined experience in research, industry and international development.
Uta leads Action Research in Europe and the Global South on how innovative societal engagement in data and knowledge co-creation & sharing can help trigger transformative changes in science, policy and society towards participatory environmental governance and sustainable societies. She has substantial experience as project coordinator/Principal Investigator of large multi-disciplinary projects on Citizen Science and Living Labs for water and environmental challenges in which she collaborates with diverse organisations from the public and private sector, academia as well as civil society. Her research has been funded by a range of funders, including several EU framework programmes, the European Space Agency, the Coca Cola Foundation, Mistra (Sweden), and the Dutch government, among others.
Source: IHE-Delft
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