Simone van de Wetering

Dr. Simone van de Wetering is a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg Law School's Public Law & Governance department at Tilburg University. She specializes in identity, inequality, urban policy, and ethnographic methods. Her doctoral research (2024) focused on participatory governance in marginalized neighborhoods in the Netherlands and France, culminating in her thesis 'Beyond promise or problem...'. Currently, she studies state-citizen conflict dynamics in the digital Anthropocene. She teaches 'Good Governance' and supervises bachelor/master theses in Public Governance.

Education: PhD in Law from Tilburg University (2024). Her work appears in journals like Local Government Studies, Urban Research & Practice, and Geoforum. She collaborates on projects such as DECODE, exploring conflict in digital governance contexts. Research highlights include analyzing participatory governance paradoxes and the role of vulnerability in urban policies.

• Teaching: Master Public Governance (Good Governance module), Bachelor's/ Master's thesis supervision.
• Key Projects:
  • DECODE: Investigating conflict in digital Anthropocene governance (2023–2029).

Labs/Teams: Active in Tilburg Institute of Governance and Public Law & Governance research groups.