Dr. Jasmin Wiefek

Dr. Jasmin Wiefek, ZTG, Formative evaluation

Jasmin Wiefek is a psychologist and has been a research assistant at the ZTG since November 2021. Previously, she conducted research at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design and Research, and the Environmental Psychology Research Group. Her research focuses on inter- and transdisciplinary transformation and sustainability research, sustainable production and consumption, degrowth, and research on the common good economy. She has also completed advanced training in permaculture, wilderness education and sociocracy, and as co-founder of the Club of the Good Future, she provides social-ecological transformation impulses to professionals and executives.

Experience
Since 2021	Research associate at ZTG
Since 2021	CEO of Wiefek & Kny Transformation Dialog GbR
Since 2020	Co-founder of the "Club der guten Zukunft"
2019 – 2021	Research associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. Potsdam
Since 2017	Co-creator of the "Salon and Stammtisch für Transformation"
2014 – 2018	Guest lecturer in the environmental education program at University of Hildesheim
2013 – 2020	Research associate / assistant at the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research at the European University Flensburg
2013 – 2016	Co-founder of transition>>lab and involvement in setting-up the social-ecological co-working space Thinkfarm Berlin
2012 – 2013	Research assistant in the Research Group Environmental Psychology
2011	Research assistant at the University Hospital Göttingen
2011	Alpine herder in Switzerland
Education
2019	Trainee on "Lernpfad zur Wildgestaltung" - Büro für sozialen Humusaufbau Freiburg
2016 – 2021	PhD "Companies Contributing to the Common Good - An Empirical Study about the Common Good Approach in Entrepreneurial Practice" at Freie Universität of Berlin
2005 – 2011	Diploma studies in psychology at the Georg-August-Universtität Göttingen and La Sapienza in Rome - Diploma thesis on the topic: Satisfaction with local supply in the district of Göttingen - a campaign proposal based on the analysis of consumer behavior in rural areas

Wiefek, Jasmin; Michels-Ehrentraut, Rachel; Beyerl, Katharina; Stollberg, Andreas. (2021): Strategien zur Reduktion von Lebensmittelverpackungen. Unverpackt-Konzepte, Mehrweg-Systeme und regionale Versorgungsstrukturen als Ansätze zur reduzierten Nutzung von Einweg-Plastikverpackungen. IASS Policy Brief (September/2021), Potsdam. https://doi.org/10.48481/iass.2021.025
Wiefek, Jasmin; Heinitz, Kathrin (2021): The common good balance sheet and employees´ perceptions, attitudes and behaviours. Sustainability, 13(3), 1592. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031592
Wiefek, Jasmin; Steinhorst, Julia; Beyerl, Katharina (2021): Personal and structural factors that influence individual plastic packaging consumption ‒ Results from focus group discussions with German consumers. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 3, 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2021.100022
Wiefek, Jasmin; Heinitz, Kathrin (2019): The common good approach in entrepreneurial practice. Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics, 20(3), 320–345. https://doi.org/10.5771/1439-880X-2019-3-320
Heidbrink, Ludger; Kny, Josefa; Köhne, Ralf; Sommer, Bernd; Stumpf, Klara; Welzer, Harald; Wiefek, Jasmin (2018): Schlussbericht für das Verbundprojekt Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie im Vergleich unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien (GIVUN). Flensburg & Kiel. https://www.uni-flensburg.de/fileadmin/content/zentren/nec/dokumente/downloads/givun-schlussbericht.pdf
Wiefek, Jasmin; Heinitz, Kathrin (2018): Common good-oriented companies – Exploring corporate values, characteristics and practices that could support a development towards degrowth. Management Revue, 29(3), 311–331. https://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2018-3-311
Kny, Josefa; Schmies, Max; Sommer, Bernd; Welzer, Harald; Wiefek, Jasmin (2015): Von der Nische in den Mainstream. Wie gute Beispiele nachhaltigen Handelns in einem breiten gesellschaftlichen Kontext verankert werden können. Umweltbundesamt. TEXTE 86/2015. Dessau-Roßlau. https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/von-der-nische-in-den-mainstream

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