Biography
Vivian Visser is assistant professor of Governance & Pluralism at the department of Public Administration and Sociology.
She is currently involved in the Vital Cities and Citizens funded research project "One size doesn't fit all". To reduce social inequalities in participation, this project researches how public professionals can tailor citizen participation approaches by taking into account differences in citizens’ social, economic and cultural capital. The research focusses on two neighbourhoods in Rotterdam that experiment with innovation in neighbourhood participation and governance. The project combines design-oriented methods with an action research approach, involving in-depth understanding of the perspectives of hard-to-reach groups, fostering innovative, out-of-the-box theorizing, practical applicability and societal impact. Crucially, instead of focusing on how citizens could adapt to extant institutional contexts, the project aims to develop tools for public professionals to tailor participation approaches to citizens.
Vivian's research interests include the changing relation between governments and citizens. She is particularly interested in the role that status differences between citizens play in participation processes.
For her disseration, she conducted a mixed-method study on governments’ and citizens’ perspectives on invitational governance; a governance style explicitly aimed at stimulating citizens' initiatives.
Vivian coordinates the Kenniswerkplaats Leefbare Wijken, Govlab010 and the master Polarisatie, Democratie en Samenleving.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- visser@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Vivian Visser (2023) - Who is invited?: A mixed-method study on governments’ and citizens’ perspectives on invitational governance
- Tom Radstaak, Vivian Visser & Jitske Verkerk (2021) - De participatiemaaltijd - [link]
- Vivian Visser, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2021) - Understanding less-educated citizens’ (non-)participation in citizens’ initiatives: Feelings of entitlement and a taste for politics - Current Sociology - doi: 10.1177/00113921211024700 - [link]
- Vivian Visser, M Stouten & Jitske Verkerk (2021) - Snelstudie Participatie en Inclusiviteit - [link]
- Vivian Visser, Jitske van Popering - Verkerk & Arwin van Buuren (2021) - The social production of invited spaces: Toward an understanding of the invitational character of spaces for citizens’ initiatives - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 32, 869-880 - doi: 10.1007/s11266-020-00310-w - [link]
- Vivian Visser (2021) - How civil servants evaluate citizens’ initiatives: The role of social status of initiators
- Vivian Visser (2021) - How civil servants evaluate citizens’ initiatives: The role of social status of initiators
- Vivian Visser (2021) - How civil servants evaluate citizens’ initiatives: The role of social status of initiators
- Vivian Visser (2021) - How frontline workers evaluate citizens’ initiatives: The role of social status of initiators
- Vivian Visser, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2021) - Why are people with lower levels of education less likely to participate in citizens' initiatives? - [link]
- Kjell Noordzij & Vivian Visser (2023) - Burgers betrekken bij besluitvorming (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - Vivian Visser (2020) - Kunnen burgers voldoende invloed uitoefenen op hun leefomgeving? (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - E (Ellen) Minkman, V (Vivian) Visser, J (Jitske) van Popering - Verkerk & MW (Arwin) van Buuren (2020) - Energietransitie in Rotterdam (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - V (Vivian) Visser (2020) - Govlab010: Het benutten van de energie van onderop (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - V (Vivian) Visser (2019) - DPAS PhD Day (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - V (Vivian) Visser (2019) - Wij Maken Nederland Academie (External organisation) (Member)
Activity: Membership of board › Professional - Vivian Visser & Jitske Verkerk (2019) - Masterclass participatie in de fysieke leefomgeving (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Vivian Visser, Jitske Verkerk & Arwin Buuren (2019) - Dag van de Participatie (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional
- Arwin van Buuren, Jitske van Popering - Verkerk & Vivian Visser (2019) - Erasmus Graduate School Award for PhD Excellence: Best conference paper
3.4 Bachelor project
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-B3050
4.4 Governance
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM1040
4.2 Democratische vernieuwing
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-MS1020
3.2 Political Philosophy and Democracy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-C3020