Heike Schroeder

Heike Schroeder is Professor of Environmental Governance at the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia. She is a member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Global Environmental Justice Group, Globalisation and CSR, and ClimateUEA. Additionally, she is a cross-appointed professor in the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) at Hiroshima University, Japan, and a lead faculty member of the Earth System Governance project.

• PhD in Political Science, Free University of Berlin (2003)
• MA in Political Science, Economics and Japanese Studies, University of Bonn (2000)
• BA in Contemporary European Studies with Japanese language, University of East Anglia (1996)

Her research focuses on global environmental politics, the politics of international climate negotiations, critiques of climate policy, indigenous knowledge and decolonisation, transformative learning, trust, food and nutrition, planetary health, and the link between climatic changes and industrial agriculture. She employs systemic constellations as a method of embodied enquiry in her work.

Her recent publications explore trust in climate negotiations, communication at COPs, implementation of climate agreements, and just energy transitions. These works reflect a strong trend toward understanding socio-political dynamics in climate governance, equity in sustainability transitions, and the role of non-state actors and indigenous knowledge in global environmental decision-making.

• DAAD/Monbusho Scholarship (2000–2002)
• Bonn University Exchange Scholarship (1994/95)

Heike Schroeder has supervised numerous PhD students, including Karen Anderton (Oxford), Lucy Baker, Wei Shen, Sabine Dauth, Yuli Shan, Yang Xia, Susan Conlon, Heran Zheng, Ursula Flossmann-Kraus, Lorraine Dongo, Jana Hofmann, Xian Li, and Jing Tian. She has led major research projects such as the Indigenous-International Interactions for Sustainable Development (INDIS) and currently leads the 'Farming for Sustainability, Peace and Planetary Health' project. She has also contributed to policy through her role on the Swedish Research Council’s climate change reviewer panel.

She is actively involved in research groups and networks including the Earth System Governance project, Tyndall Centre, and NERPS, fostering interdisciplinary and international collaboration on sustainability and climate justice.