Pavlina Miteva-Bölter

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Pavlina.Miteva-Boelter@zeu.uni-giessen.de

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Academic Career
03/2019 - present	Doctoral candidate in Political Sciences \| Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) PhD Project 'Policy Transfer from IOs to Single States: The Case of IOC-UNESCO and Marine Spatial Planning'
03/2020 - present	PMB Member \| Project SDG Nexus Network \| JLU
04/2024 - 09/2024	Lecturer \| 'Gerechtigkeit in der Umweltpolitik' \| Department of Political Science \| JLU
05/2024 - 07/2024	Research Officer \| EUPeace \| JLU
10/2021 - 09/2023	Lecturer \| 'Global Environmental Change: Climate and Ocean Governance' \| Department of Political Science \| JLU
08/2023 - 12/2023	Project coordinator \| 'Women in Science Mentoring Program' PROMEMCI International \| SDG Nexus Network
01/2021 - 01/2022	Research assistant \| Panel on Planetary Thinking \| JLU
08/2015 - 08/2018	Lecturer \| Faculty for Global Studies, University Anahuac México, Mexico City
01/2018 - 03/2018	Researcher and interpreter \| Reporters Without Borders, Media Ownership Monitor Mexico
07/2016 - 12/2017	Researcher and blogger \| UNDP online platform socialprotection.org.
01/2015 - 01/2016	Researcher and editor \| Urban Development Plan for Tlaxco municipality, Mexico
08/2015 - 09/2015	Lecturer \| Ibero-American University and Museum for Memory and Tolerance, Mexico City
02/2015 - 03/2015	Researcher \| Mexican Institute for Human Rights and Democracy, Mexico City
05/2014 - 12/2014	Researcher \| Development project for food security PESA, Huamantla, Mexico
10/2013 - 05/2014	Research Assistant \| Berlin School for Economics and Law
10/2012 - 03/2014	MA in Political Economy of European Integration \| Berlin School for Economics and Law
10/2004 - 06/2008	BA in Legal Studies \| University Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje, North Macedonia

Further Information
Affiliation and Memberships	Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) \| JLU Department of Political Science \| Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies \| JLU Giessen Graduate Center (GGS) \| Member of section 'Norms and Changes in Global Politics' \| JLU German Political Science Association (DVPW) \| Member of working group 'Polar and Marine Policy' Panel on Planetary Thinking \| JLU Institute for International Political Economy Berlin \| Berlin School for Economics and Law
Focus Area (ZEU)	Climate & Environmental Change
Fields of Interest	Policy Transfer and Diffusion Environmental Governance Ocean Governance
Project Involvement	SDG^nexus Network \| Equal opportunities officer and PMB member PROMEMCI Women in Science Mentoring Program \| Project coordination PROMEMCI International
Publications	Miteva-Bölter, P. (2024) The agency of IOC-UNESCO in shaping marine spatial planning as a novel policy solution, In: Jones, C. (Ed.) Governing Oceans, Policy Development, Implementation and Evaluation. University of St. Andrews, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK. Miteva P., Ruano E. & Jordan I. (2018) Latin America and the Caribbean: Strategies to Fight Hidden Hunger. In: Biesalski H.K. & Birner, R. (eds.) Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality. World Rev Nutr Diet. Basel, Karger, 118, 167-175. DOI:10.1159/000484466. Miteva P. (2014) The Impact of the Increasing Demand for Biofuels in the EU over the Possibility to Conduct Collective Action for Reaching a Common Good: The Changes in the Community-based Management of the Common Pastures in Ethiopia. Betzelt S., Evans T., Hein E., Herr H., Kronauer M., Mahnkopf B., Truger A. & Wissen M. (eds). Working Paper 37, Institute for International Political Economy, HWR Berlin.
Conferences	Paper presentation "Causal Mechanisms behind the Policy Transfer of Marine spatial Planning from International to National Level". Offene Jahrestagung der DVPW-Themengruppe Polar- und Meerespolitik, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (February, 2024) Presentation of PhD project "The Agency of the IOC-UNESCO in Supporting the Achievement of SDG 14 - Life Below Water". Hybrid Seminar JLU & University of Sydney: The SDG Nexus Across Global Value Chains (October 2023) Paper presentation (and discussant) "The Agency of IOC-UNESCO in shaping Marine Spatial Planning as a Novel Policy Solution". IPSA World Congress 2023. Panel GS11.V19: Governance and Public Policies (July 2023). Paper presentation "IOs as Producers of Public Policies: The Case of IOC-UNESCO and Marine Spatial Planning". Workshop 'Ocean Governance'. University of St. Andrews (April 2022). Presentation of PhD project "Policy Transfer from IOs to Single States: The Case of Policy Transfer of Marine Spatial Planning to Colombia". DVPW Themengruppekolloqium, Working Group Polar- und Meerespolitik (November 2021). Presentation of PhD concept paper "Supply-Driven Policy Transfer from IOs to Single States: The Case of Policy Transfer of Marine Spatial Planning to Colombia". GGS Colloquium - Section 'Norms and Change in Global Politics'/JLU (May 2021). Presentation of PhD project "Marine and Coastal Governance: Marine Spatial Planning in Colombia". Regional Workshop on Latin America. SDG Nexus Network/JLU (January 2021). Poster presentation "Land-based Marine Pollution through the Lenses of Integrated Marine Governance Mechanisms in Colombia" at the Winter School 'Ocean Governance for Sustainable Marine Ecosystems'. ZMT Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research/Universität Bremen (February 2020).
Supervisions	Master Thesis (1st Supervisor) "Understanding the Transition towards a Blue Economy: A Case Study in Guatemala" (May 2022) Master Thesis (2nd Supervisor) "Main Actors and Instruments for Monitoring and Reporting of Sustainable Development Goal 16.5 Reduction of Corruption: The Case of Serbia" (April 2022) Bachelor Thesis (2nd Supervisor) "Die Vereinten Nationen und ihre Friedensmissionen - eine theoriegeleitete Analyse" (June 2023) Bachelor Thesis (2nd Supervisor) "Vergleichende Analyse der US-Aussenpolitik am Beispiel von Afghanistan und dem Irak" (October 2023) Bachelor Thesis (2nd Supervisor) "Northern Ireland after the Troubles The role of Bottom-Up Conflict Resolution Approaches and its Impact on a Divided Society"