Postdoctoral Researcher
Marina Novikova
Universities & Institutions
- Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
Areas of Expertise
- Social innovation
- Social entrepreneurship
- Transformative social innovation
- Regional & rural development
- Transformative capacities
- Sustainability transitions
Biography
Dr. Marina Novikova is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological, Urban and Regional Development in Dresden, Germany.
Her research expertise includes themes related to social innovation, rural development and sustainability transformations. Currently, she is working on research engaging with the issues of justice and social innovation in sustainability transformations, with a particular focus on rural-urban linkages and relationships. She is the co-director of the affinity group “Rural and regional perspectives on the social and solidarity economy and social innovation” at EMES Network and the co-coordinator of the thematic group on “Equity and Justice (Ju-ST)” at the Sustainability Transitions Research Network.
Marina’s work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Rural Studies, European Countryside, European Public and Social Innovation Review and Quaestiones Geographicae. She has participated in a number of national and international projects, including ‘RurAction – Social Entrepreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions,’ which was funded by the European Commission (H2020).
Marina holds a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Masters degree on Studies in European Societies (MA SES) from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.