Research

My PhD and the pieces it is built from: the proposal, a literature review, a conceptual paper and the tool I code the cases in.

After the commitment: Brokerage, fragmentation and the politics of turning planetary health frameworks into operational governance

Why some governments turn the planetary health frameworks they sign into rules and budgets, and others do not. Built on cases in Wales, Brazil and China.Read the research

Sept 2026 Literature review: three traditions, one demand A chapter on three governance traditions that developed in different settings and arrive at the same demand: that governance should work across sectors rather than inside them.
Sept 2026 The Conversion Tracker One structured record per case: five dimensions, the evidence behind each, an outcome category and a confidence rating. Deliberately no overall score.
Aug 2026 Fragmented adoption: naming the pattern A conceptual paper naming fragmented adoption, where every sector does the work asked of it and the relationships between them stay as they were.
Jul 2026 The research proposal The design the thesis runs on: the question, the three cases, the five dimensions and the method, defended before the scientific committee at the University of Lisbon.