Dr. Loes Witteveen leads the research group Communication, Participation and Social Ecological Learning (CoPSEL) at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences and works with the ‘Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation’ (KTI) group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. The CoPSEL group works in arenas of knowledge co-creation, participatory and deliberative governance in configurations such as living labs where private sector, civil society, knowledge institutions and government collaborate. Applying a perspective of experience capitalisation highlights the interest of the group to document and share outcomes of knowledge creation in societal, professional, and academic spaces.
Her research relates to themes such as, participatory, and deliberative governance and strategies for social change and sustainable development, situated at interfaces of environmental and social sciences. Current research links to social dialogue and sustainable water management, mediated participation and living labs configurations in a rural development context, emic approaches to user experience & user interface design for environmental communication and learning strategies such as serious gaming, community art, visual problem appraisal (VPA) and Digital Farmer Field School (DFFS)
