Romana Bates

Romana Bates serves as a Researcher at the Center for General Management within the Faculty of Business and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria. Her academic profile integrates sustainable development research with practical applications in urban contexts globally.

Her research concentrates on Sustainable Development Goals implementation, particularly examining energy management and social inclusion dynamics in urban informal settlements across Ethiopia and India. She investigates competence frameworks for addressing complex real-world problems in higher education, emphasizing meta-competences development and interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability education.

Publication analysis from 2017-2022 reveals consistent focus on SDG interlinkages in Global South urbanization contexts, with methodological emphasis on cross-disciplinary case studies. Her work bridges theoretical frameworks like the Baldrige Excellence Model with field applications in energy poverty reduction and quality-of-life improvements.

Bates secured Austrian government funding as principal investigator for the 2015-2016 project Social Inclusion and Energy Management for Informal Urban Settlements (Austria Mundus+ program), demonstrating successful grant acquisition capacity. While no formal student advisement is documented, her conference presentations at venues like the Responsible Management Education Research Conference indicate active knowledge dissemination.