Flor Avelino first obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree at University College Utrecht, where she followed an interdiscplinairy programme including Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Philosophy, History, Creative Writing and Art History. Afterwards she obtained a Master in Political Science at the University of Leiden, specialising in Strategic Studies, International Relations and European Integration. This focus in combination with an Honour’s Programme on the European Constitutional Treaty resulted in a Master-thesis on the legal and political dimensions of the shift from national sovereignty to a European Security and Defence Policy.

Flor Avelino is currently writing her PhD-thesis on transition management, with a theoretical focus on power and empowerment, and an empirical focus on the Dutch transport sector. She studies how power and empowerment play a role in the Dutch ‘transition to sustainable mobility’. She combines critical political analysis with a constructive, instrumental approach, using a wide variety of research methods, including action research, participant observation, ethnography and discourse analysis. She followed various intense courses in discourse analysis, thereby developing specialised skills in collecting and analysing textual data. During her PhD-research she presented papers (on transition theory, power and / or sustainability) at numerous international conferences in the field of political science and sustainable development. Furthermore she worked as a ‘transition advisor’ for several governmental organisations, and has been actively involved in numerous Dutch sustainable mobility projects. 

Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT)
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Visiting address:
M-building, 5th floor, room M5-25
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3000 DR Rotterdam (the Netherlands)

Postal address:
M5-25
P.O. Box 1738
3062 PA Rotterdam (the Netherlands)

phone:
+31 (0)10-4082105

email:
avelino@drift.eur.nl