Carolin Hagelskamp

Berlin School of Economics and Law | Berlin, Germany

Carolin is a professor for Social Science and Social Science Research Methods at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She was previously Director of Research at Public Agenda, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and public engagement organization in New York City, where she led research and evaluation projects on participatory budgeting in the USA and Canada. She co-authored several research reports on the state of PB in the USA and Canada, including the 2014-15 and 2015-16 reviews and an interview study on public officials‘ experiences with PB (Why Let the People Decide? 2016). For this work, she and her team at Public Agenda collaborated with local evaluators across the US and Canada. They also led the North American PB Research Board’s efforts to develop the first edition of evaluation metrics for North American PB. Carolin currently studies PB’s impacts on budgeting decisions and the question of whether and how PB can affect a more equitable allocation of public funds. Carolin holds a PhD in Community Psychology from New York University and a Master’s degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.