Dr. Colin Bien

Education

2018 – 2019    Doctor of Economics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. 

2011 – 2014     Master of Arts Sustainability Economics and Management, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. 

2013                Summer Term in the Master’s Program Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 

2008 – 2011     Bachelor of Science Environmental Sciences/ Business Administration, Leuphana University Lüneburg. 

Teaching Experience

• Lecture: Business Models for Sustainability (Summer Term 2019), Master's Programme Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ESCP Business School Berlin.
• Seminar: Pivot or Persevere: iterative Geschäftsmodellentwicklung am Fallbeispiel True Fabrics (Summer Term 2017), Leuphana College, Komplementärstudium, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. 
• Seminar: Practical Project “Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung an der Universität Oldenburg” (Summer Term 2015), Master’s Programme Sustainability Economics and Management, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
• Seminar: Practical Project “Nachhaltigkeit an Universitäten” (Winter Term 2013/2014), Master’s Programme Sustainability Economics and Management, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. 

Academic Positions 

2019 – 2019    Research Assistant, Hoch-N, University of Hamburg

2015 – 2019     Research Assistant, Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change, University of Hamburg. 

2014 – 2015     Research Assistant, Ecological Economics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. 

2013 – 2015     Student Assistant, Vice-President for Junior Researchers and Quality Management (Prof. Dr. Bernd Siebenhüner), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Bien, C., Sassen, R. (2020). Sensemaking of a Sustainability Transition by Higher Education Institution Leaders. Journal of Cleaner Production 256.

Bien, C., Sassen, R. (2019). Transformative Aktivitäten von Hochschulen. Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen. 42(3), 252-279. https://doi.org/10.5771/0344-9777-2019-3-252

Azizi, L., Bien, C., Sassen, R. (2018). Recent Trends in sustainability reporting by German universities.Sustainability Management Forum 26(1), 65-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-018-0469-8

 Bien, C., Sassen, R., Held, H. (2017). Die transformative Universität in der Gesellschaft. Ein Überblick über verschiedene Konzepte. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives on Science and Society. 26 (3), 259-268. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.26.3.10

Research Interests 

Organizational Change Management for Sustainability, Transformative Science, Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education, Science-Society Interaction

Research Grants

2016: Federal Ministry for Education and Research (2,5 Mio. EUR), Joint-Project „Nachhaltigkeit an Hochschulen (HOCHN): entwickeln – vernetzen – berichten“ [with A. Bassen, R. Sassen, S. Palm und C. Schmitt (all University of Hamburg) and nine other authors]