Rate My Professor Eva Wolf

Dr. Eva E.A. Wolf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, and is affiliated with the Tilburg Institute of Governance. She earned her PhD from the University of Antwerp in 2018 with a dissertation titled "How policy conflict escalates: The case of the Oosterweel highway in Antwerp." Her research specializes in policy conflicts, examining how spatial planning disputes escalate across substantive, procedural, and relational dimensions to the judicial arena. Wolf has studied conflicts involving intensive livestock farming, wind turbine installations, and major infrastructure projects such as the Oosterweelverbinding highway in Belgium. She emphasizes governing conflicts constructively, viewing them as natural and potentially productive elements of policymaking, rather than suppressing them through premature rigid policies.

Wolf serves as Principal Investigator on several projects, including CONTRA: CONflict in TRAnsformations (2022–2025), which uses Drama Labs to enhance urban sustainability transformations across Europe, and DECODE: Dealing with Conflict in the Digital Anthropocene (2023–2029), employing hybrid ethnography to analyze digital-physical intertwinements in urban policy conflicts. She is also involved in the Bindend Besturen Brabant initiative with the Province of North Brabant. Her key publications include "Dramalab toolkit: How theatre fosters better conversations about the future of a city" (2025, co-authored with Koole, Arnoldussen, and van Hulst), "Toolbox for Conducting Drama Labs in Urban Development" (2024, co-authored with Sachs Olsen et al.), her popular science book "De waarde van weerstand" (The Value of Resistance), and peer-reviewed articles such as "How policies become contested: A spiral of imagination and evidence in a large infrastructure project" (2017, Policy Sciences, with Van Dooren) and "How exclusion structures policy conflict in collaborative governance" (2025, Policy Sciences, with Boon). Wolf teaches Policy Analysis in Public Administration and supervises master's theses in Public Governance. She delivers lectures, essays, and speeches to practitioners in the Netherlands and Flanders, contributing to practical governance.