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Teaching activities

Eileen de Jong is a Junior Assistant Professor in the Environmental Governance Group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. She has a background in sustainable development with a focus on governance, policy, and politics of transforming societies towards sustainability. As a Junior Assistant Professor, Eileen teaches in the Global Sustainability Science Bachelor and the Sustainable Development Master programmes since September 2022. Her teaching tasks are diverse but include giving tutorials and lectures, tutoring first year Bachelor students and supervising Bachelor theses. 
 
She is involved in the following courses:

• Policy Evaluation and Design (GEO1-2103)

• Duurzame Ontwikkeling (GEO2-2113)

• Foundations of Social Sciences for Sustainability (GEO1-2413)

• Research Strategies (GEO4-2304)

• Duurzaamheid als Wereldbeeld (GEO3-5004) 

Research activities 

In her PhD research, Eileen is currently focusing on the institutionalization and implementation of the United Nations’ Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) Principle. The LNOB principle lies at the heart of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. LNOB presents a potentially transformative approach to development, but its achievement highly depends on how LNOB is translated into action. Countries have reaffirmed their commitment to the LNOB principle in the mid-review of the SDGs and the challenge lies in making this commitment meaningful. The focus of Eileen's PhD research is therefore on identifying enabling conditions but also gaps for reaching the LNOB principle at the country level. She is currently doing a case study analysis to explore the role of political factors in shaping how institutionalisation of LNOB is (not) translated into its goal achievement.

Publications: 

de Jong, E., Princen, S., & Vijge, M. J. (2025). Fulfilling the Promise of ‘Leaving No One Behind’: Exploring Institutional Pathways to Success. Sustainable Development. 

de Jong, E., & Vijge, M. J. (2024). Institutionalizing leaving no one behind: Operationalizing and analyzing worldwide national efforts. Globalizations, 1-19. 

de Jong, E., & Vijge, M. J. (2021). From Millennium to Sustainable Development Goals: Evolving discourses and their reflection in policy coherence for development. Earth System Governance, 7, 100087.