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Staff and
Center Associates
Dr. Lauren Heberle
Assistant
Director
Phone: (502) 852-4749
Email: [email protected]
Lauren Heberle is a post-doctoral
research fellow with the Center for Environmental Policy and
Management with a specialization in social theory, research
methodology, environmental insurance and brownfields redevelopment.
While at the
CEPM, Lauren has collaborated on various projects regarding
brownfield redevelopment, including the impact of environmental
insurance in the public and private sectors and policy incentives
for redevelopment. She is currently the survey manager and
administrator for a project that examines developers� responses to
market-based incentives geared toward brownfields redevelopment. She
has expertise in qualitative interviewing and in various types of
survey construction and administration. She has assisted in managing
a web based focus group and has conducted interviews with and
administered surveys to local governmental officials and developers
across the United States.
Lauren has also
embarked upon two additional projects. The first captures how
current literature conceptualizes and operationalizes sprawl and
thus shapes public policy and the debates about �smart growth�. The
second project examines the uses and abuses of the concept of social
capital for housing policy and community development.
She has
extensive prior research experience including examinations of the
organizational development of the Nazi Party in Germany, how
organizational structures can lead to conflicts of interest within
labor unions, and a feminist inquiry into physicists� research
practices. The common theme throughout each of these diverse topics
has been a critical analysis of the conceptualization process and
research methods.
Lauren received her Ph.D. from the
Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her dissertation
examined the gender and social class composition of, and the social
ties within, the Nazi Party membership in Munch, Germany from 1925
through 1929. Thus, organizational memberships, social movement
participation, and collective action remain an active interest to
her.
She has taught
the following undergraduate courses over the years both at Rutgers
and at the University of Louisville:
Social Science
Research Methods
Introduction to Sociology
Sociology of
Gender
Social Inequalities
Social Problems
Sociological
Theory
  
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