Anne van Valkengoed

Dr. Anne van Valkengoed is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. Her work focuses on climate change adaptation, risk perception, and behavioral drivers of environmental actions. She collaborates with municipalities like Breda to study subsidy impacts on adaptive measures. Key areas include farmers' sustainable practices, biodiversity loss perceptions, and integrating psychological theories into climate models.

Research highlights include the Motivation, Agency, and Past Behaviour (MAP) framework for climate modeling and studies on intention-action gaps in farming communities. She has received the Kurt Lewin Institute Best Paper Award (2020) and contributes to public discourse through media engagements. Her work spans academic publications, conferences, and interdisciplinary collaborations, addressing both psychological and policy dimensions of environmental challenges.