Lydia Heilen
Research assistant
Member of the Geography Didactics working group
Main research interests: Transformative education, in particular with reference to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and barriers to action in the context of sustainability
Lydia Heilen has been working as a research assistant in the Geography Didactics working group at the Institute of Geography since December 2023. Her focus is on transformative education, especially with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and barriers to action in the context of sustainability.
Lydia Heilen completed her Master's degree in Environmental Psychology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. She previously studied Psychology (B.Sc.) at Osnabrück University. After completing her studies, she initially worked as a project manager at the Global Marshall Plan Foundation, where she trained young people to become multipliers for the SDGs, among other things. Since 2019, Lydia Heilen has been doing her doctorate at Leibniz Universität Hannover in the Department of Didactics of Geography in the project "'Change instead of growth' - The Sustainable Development Goals and post-growth economies from the perspective of young people in the context of social transformation" on the perspective of young people on the SDGs with special consideration of change agents. She has also been involved in various other projects there since 2020, e.g. as part of a concept development phase of a research project on FREI DAY and in the Future Discourses series. A total of ten panel discussions on various aspects of sustainable transformation took place as part of this series.
Lydia Heilen is a member of the second cohort of the TRUST / ARL doctoral college "Spatial Transformation" of the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association and the TRUST Research Center "Spatial Transformation - Future for City and Country" at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Publications
In print
Badelt, O., Dahmen, K., Finger, A., Heilen, L., Mai, N., Seegers, R, Seewald, E., Snieg, F., & Wiemer, L. (eds.) (in press). Transformation processes in urban and rural areas - findings, strategies, future perspectives. Research reports of the ARL. Hanover
Finger, A., Heilen, L., & Wiemer, L. (in press). Living at the limit - Visual risk communication in the context of climate change using the example of Zermatt, Switzerland. In O. Badelt, K. Dahmen, A. Finger, L. Heilen, N. Mai, R. Seegers, E. Seewald, F. Snieg, & L. Wiemer (Eds.), Transformation Processes in Town and Country - Insights, Strategies, Future Perspectives. Research reports of the ARL. Hanover
2023
Eberth, A., Meyer, C., & Heilen, L. (2023). "Economics for Future" from Different Perspectives: Critical Reflections on SDG 8 with a Special Focus on Economic Growth and Some Suggestions for Alternative Pathways. In M. L. De Lázaro Torres, & R. De Miguel González (Eds.), Sustainable Development Goals in Europe: A Geographical Approach (pp. 153-167). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21614-5_8
Heilen, L., Eberth, A., & Meyer, C. (2023). Change agents as role models? Reflections on selected perspectives of young people in the context of a socio-ecological transformation. In A. Schütte, & J. Nielsen-Sikora (Eds.), Whom to follow? On the meaning, change and topicality of role models (pp. 153). J.B. Metzler. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66838-2
2022
Eberth, A., Meyer, C., & Heilen, L. (2022). Focus groups on post-growth economies in the context of transformative education. In A. Eberth, A. Goller, J. Günther, M. Hanke, V. Holz, A. Krug, K. Rončević, & M. Singer-Brodowski (Eds.), Education for sustainable development: Impulses on digitalization, inclusion and climate protection (pp. 144-164). "Ecology and Education Science" of the Commission on Education for Sustainable Development of the German Association for Education Science (DGfE). Barbara Budrich Leverkusen. doi. org/10.2307/j.ctv2zrpd1x.10
Heilen, L., Meyer, C., & Eberth, A. (2022). The Sustainable Development Goals from the perspective of young people in the context of education for sustainable development: a research design. In A. Eberth, A. Goller, J. Günther, M. Hanke, V. Holz, A. Krug, K. Rončević , & M. Singer-Brodowski (Eds.), Education for Sustainable Development: Impulses on digitalization, inclusion and climate protection (pp. 235-250). "Ecology and Education Science" of the Commission on Education for Sustainable Development of the German Association for Education Science (DGfE). Barbara Budrich Leverkusen. doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2zrpd1x.15
Heilen, L., Eberth, A., & Meyer, C. (2022). The importance of social media and change agents for youth in the context of sustainability. In A. Bush, & J. Birke (Eds.), Sustainability and social media: Education for sustainable development in the digital world (pp. 37-57). Springer VS. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35660-6_3
Heilen, L., & Meyer, C. (2022). "Consumers for Future" - Relevance, reflections, impulses. in C. Meyer (Ed.), "Transforming our World": Discourses on the future for the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 (pp. 205-224). (New Ecology). transcript Verlag. doi.org/10.14361/9783839455579-014
2021
Heilen, L., Eberth, A., & Meyer, C. (2021). Young People's Geographies in the Times of Covid-19: System Threat as a Chance for System Change? In C. Travis, & V. Valentino (Eds.), Narratives in the Anthropocene era (pp. 302-320). (Geographies of the Anthropocene; Vol. 4, No. 2). Il Sileno. www.ilsileno.it/geographiesoftheanthropocene/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Chapter-15.pdf
2020
Eberth, A., & Heilen, L. (2020). Review: Diercke Geography and Sport. Teaching spatially relevant leisure activities in a competence-oriented way. OpenSpaces - Journal for Didactics of Geography , 02(02), 52-62. uni-duisburg-essen.sciebo.de/s/orPwvyOfP5gMgKZ
2023
Young People's Perspectives on Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals - Influences and Pedagogical Approaches, IGU-CGE International Conference, University of Oxford, 05.07.2023
Young people shaping change - facets of a "transformation of our world", keynote lecture, Shaping the future with transformative education - Together for ESD in Lower Saxony, Evangelische Akademie Loccum and Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, 14.02.2023
2022
The Sustainable Development Goals from the Perspectives of Young People - Implications for Geography Education in the Context of Education for Sustainable Development (with Christiane Meyer and Andreas Eberth), UGI-IGU Centennial Congress, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 19.07.2022
Digital focus groups with young people. Experiences on limits and potentials (with Andreas Eberth), 6th Annual Conference of the Working Group Qualitative Methods in Geography and Spatially Sensitive Social and Cultural Research, Goslar, 15.03.2022s
2021
Why do nothing? An analysis of barriers to action, the market for useful knowledge and non-knowledge, possessions and goods - property, made poverty and a world that we share, Schauspielhaus Hannover, 12.09.2021
How can a sustainable transformation succeed? - An examination of young people's perspectives on the implementation of the SDGs in the context of education for sustainable development (with Christiane Meyer), ESD SummerSchool of the German Society for Education Science (DGfE), Leibniz University Hannover, 03.05.2021
2020
Transforming our World - Perspectives of young people on the Sustainable Development Goals (with Christiane Meyer), Conference "Sustainable Development Goals and Teacher Education" of the LeNa Network, University of Agricultural and Environmental Education Vienna (online), 14.12.2020
2019
SDG Session: Why always me?, 14th Federal Congress of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Leipzig, 09.03.2019
2018
The Marshall Plan with Africa - potentials and challenges, Federal Conference on Municipal Development Policy, Lübeck 07.06.2018