PhD Scholarship: Spatial sustainability science - Glowing cities: Heat and drought in urban contexts, Dresden Leibniz Graduate School, Germany
PhD Scholarship Spatial sustainability science – Glowing cities: Heat and drought in urban contexts The Dresden Leibniz Graduate School is a joint interdisciplinary facility of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Dresden, and Technische Universität Dresden Closing date: 15th September 2020 http://www.dlgs-dresden.de/application More information and full call can be found here: DLGS Call_2021
Junior Professor of Politics and Communication in Ibero-America, Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
The Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) and the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Heidelberg University, Germany, invite applications for a non-tenured position as Junior Professor of Politics and Communication in Ibero-America (W1) to be filled as soon as possible. The position is available for a maximum tenure of 6 years, with an […]
Junior Professor (W1) “Communication Studies: Information Society in Ibero-America”, Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
The Faculty of Modern Languages at Heidelberg University, Germany, and the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies invite applications for a non-tenured position as: Junior Professor (W1) “Communication Studies: Information Society in Ibero-America” to be filled as soon as possible. The appointment is initially for four years. After a positive evaluation, an extension for a further […]
Linda Wollersheim
Name of event: KOSMOS Conference – Navigating the Sustainability Transformation in the 21st Century, Humboldt University Berlin The RSA Travel Grant allowed me to attend the KOSMOS Sustainability Conference in Berlin, where I presented a paper and also participated in a cutting-edge public conference format displaying some of my PhD work on low-carbon energy transitions. […]
Huiwen Gong
Huiwen is a PhD student with a focus on opening concepts in Economic Geography to perspectives from the Global South and Asia. Huiwen will provide a significant voice representing the views of emerging scholars on the Committee and it is hoped her active involvement will provide a distinct and valuable perspective.
Suntje Schmidt
Suntje Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Applied Economic Geography at the Humboldt University in Berlin, is the RSA Ambassador to Germany.
Territorial Cohesion and Inter-regional Financial Transfer Payments
A system of financial transfer payments is employed in the Federal Republic of Germany as a means of compensating for substantial differences in the financial power of the federal states (Länder). For the year 2012, only three federal states, all located in southern Germany were net contributors while the remaining thirteen states were net recipients […]
Spatial Justice and the Crisis of Regional Development Theories
The 2012 Regional Studies Association Early Career Conference took place on 1st and 2nd November at Hafen City University in Hamburg. The conference under the title of Times of Change: Future Directions in Geography, Urban and Regional Studies examined the implications of the current economic and financial crisis for future of regional studies. Individual sessions covered a wide range […]
Crossing the Fehmarn Belt: A New Transnational Region in the Making
Commencing operation in 2021, a new tunnel will provide the final piece in the jigsaw linking the city of Hamburg in Germany to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden which together form the STRING region. This fixed link will complement the existing bridge crossing the Öresund strait between Denmark and Sweden which opened to […]