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Flor Avelino is a Professor of Organisations & Sustainability at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. With a background in political science, she specializes in power theories and has been working as a researcher and lecturer in sustainability transitions and transformative social innovation since 2005. Previously, she worked as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) and as an associate professor at the Department of Public Administration & Sociology at the Erasmus School of Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Her research focuses on understanding how people, organizations, and networks are (dis)empowered to contribute to change, and how power relations are challenged and reproduced through translocal processes of social innovation and sustainability transitions. Her work spans across sustainability science, political science, and sociology, examining transformative change toward more just and sustainable societies. Avelino's conceptual contributions include frameworks for analyzing power in transitions and understanding transformative social innovation.
Professor Avelino's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on power dynamics in sustainability transitions, with particular attention to transformative social innovation, energy systems, and urban sustainability. Her work increasingly addresses issues of justice in transitions, exploring how power relations shape who benefits from sustainability transformations. She has developed frameworks for understanding transformative power and conceptualizing just sustainability transitions, with significant contributions to theoretical foundations in the field.
Throughout her career, Professor Avelino has been involved in significant research projects examining sustainability transitions and social innovation across European contexts. Her collaborative work involves transdisciplinary approaches that bring together academic researchers, practitioners, and community actors to co-produce knowledge for sustainability transformations. She has contributed to major publications that have shaped the field of sustainability transitions research, including influential theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses of transformative change processes.
