Dr. Nicole M. Schmidt
Contact information
Heidelberg University
Institute of Political Science
Bergheimer Str. 58, Room 03.043
D-69115 Heidelberg
E-Mail: Nicole.Schmidt@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de
Vita
Nicole M. Schmidt studied Political Science, Economics and Slavic Studies in Heidelberg, at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, USA and at Sciences Po Paris and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in March 2014. Her MA thesis investigated discourses on climate engineering in the US, Germany and France. From December 2014 to March 2019 she was an academic assistant and lecturer at the chair of Political Science of Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun. She also worked for the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (April – November 2014 and February 2018 – March 2019) and was a fellow there from 2018 to 2019 . During her doctoral studies, she was part of numerous international research projects, including the EU-COST Action Network 'Innovations in Climate Governance' (IS1309), the project 'Assessment and Perception of Green and Open Spaces in Urban Regions in the Context of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation' funded by the Heidelberg Karlsruhe Research Partnership (HEiKA) and the FP7 project 'CUPESSE' (No. 61325). Her research focus is on comparative climate policies, particularly adaptation policies.
Dissertation
In her dissertation, Dr. Nicole Schmidt seeked to advance the academic debate on policy integration and coordination. Using the example of climate policy, she examined climate polices with regard to their constitutive characteristics, exploring the composition and development of more than 1,000 national climate policies between 1990 and 2017. In addition, she investigated the question of how exactly ministries cooperate with other public authorities in the context of mitigation and adaptation policies, providing a more nuanced understanding of climate policy-making processes. She completed her PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in October 2019.
- Title: “From Integration to Fragmentation: Output and Process Dimensions of Climate Policies” (summa cum laude)
Publications
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