Rate My Professor Madelinde Winnubst

Madelinde Winnubst is an Assistant Professor in Public Governance and Management at the Utrecht University School of Governance, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance. She holds a PhD with the thesis 'Turbulent Waters: Cross-Scale Conflict and Collaboration in River Landscape Planning' (2011) and an MSc in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University (completed 1990). A doctor in Sociology, she joined Utrecht University in 2010, focusing her research on government-citizen relationships, public participation, citizen initiatives, conflict and collaboration in water management, impacts of spatial plans on citizens' daily lives and livelihoods, and social cohesion in suburbs and villages. Since 2005, she has led a longitudinal study on flood safety plans in the river landscape. Her work examines stakeholder initiatives in flood risk management, particularly within the Dutch 'Room for the River' program, narratives of participation and consensus-building, and knowledge production in spatial-environmental conflicts.

Winnubst has published extensively on these themes, with key works including 'Stakeholder initiatives in flood risk management: Exploring the role and impact of bottom-up initiatives in three Room for the River projects in the Netherlands' (Edelenbos, Van Buuren, Roth, and Winnubst, 2017, International Journal of River Basin Management), 'Room for the River, no room for conflict: Narratives of participation, win-win, consensus and co-creation in Dutch spatial flood risk management' (Roth, Warner, and Winnubst, 2021), 'After the facts: Producing, using and contesting knowledge in two spatial-environmental conflicts in the Netherlands' (Roth, Köhne, Dueholm Rasch, and Winnubst, 2021, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space), and 'Waterschapsdemocratie in actie: De rol van participatie bij dijkversterkingen in twee waterschappen' (Winnubst and Roth, 2023). Her scholarship, with over 350 citations, contributes to understanding inclusive governance, citizen engagement in water policy, regionalization and councillor roles, and participation in dike reinforcements. In education, she supervises theses in Public Administration and Organisation Science, teaches qualitative research methods, research seminars, and perspectives on public questions, and coordinates internships.