Researcher/ PhD position (m/f/d) Transnational contentious politics/situational publics in South- South relations (3 years) At European Research Council-funded research group “AFRICA’s INFRASTRUCTURE GLOBALITIES”, University of Bayreuth. Deadline: 10 February 2022 If you are interested, you can find more information here: https://uni-bayreuth.de/phd-position-infraglob-dc3f09ab179dcdcc and www.infraglob.eu
Lecturer/PhD position (m/f/d) Global Political Sociology with focus on the Global South (3 years +1) At the Chair for Sociology in Africa, University of Bayreuth, Deadline: 10. February 2022 The position contains to pursue a PhD and to contribute to teaching (one seminar/term) and research at the chair group in Global/International Political Sociology. If […]
Postdoc (m/f/d) (4 years) Peace and security interventions from the Global South At University of Bayreuth, BMBF-funded collaborative research network ‘Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict’, , Deadline: 28. January 2022 A focus on external peace and security interventions in Africa from Asia, Latin America and/or the Middle East would be especially welcome. Start […]
Nadir Kinossian is Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include territorial development, multilevel governance, cultural landscapes, and the post-socialist city. Recently, he has been working on the agentic and institutional aspects of change in old industrial regions in Europe and Russia. Currently, he is the Project […]
His prime scientific interests are within the fields of spatial planning instruments such as strategic spatial planning and place branding. His research involves also economic geography concepts and the embedding of these in evolutionary governance systems. His current research focuses on analyzing the effectiveness of strategic spatial planning instruments in supporting the social and economic […]
The German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) e.V. in Berlin is looking for a Research Fellow (m/f/x/n.I.) at the Integration Department from the earliest possible date (part-time 75%, salary group E13 TVöD (Bund)). DeZIM is a non-university research institute devoted to migration and integration that was established in 2017. As a federal research […]
Our Research Training Group on Contradiction Studies at Bremen University welcomes applications for 12 doctoral and 1 postdoctoral positions: https://contradictionstudies.uni-bremen.de/en/home/ We are looking for enthusiastic, excellent, and creative individuals to join us. The closing date is 15 February 2022.
PhD-position available at the University of Cologne, Economic Geography and the Global South Are you interested in joining our team? We are offering you an interesting opportunity for your PhD research within the project “Future in Chains – Socio-Economic Impacts of Growth Corridors“. Your task: » In depth analysis of established and emerging global […]
The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is an international research university that offers a wide range of degree programs. Some 38,000 students and more than 6,000 employees study and work on the foundation of a 200-year tradition. Awarded the status of a University of Excellence, the University of Bonn is one of the leading universities in Germany […]
Spatial Foresight is a private consultancy and independent think tank in the area of European territorial policies and research. Most importantly, it is a multi-national and interdisciplinary team. It has its main office in Heisdorf (Luxembourg) and branch offices in Berlin (Germany) and Paris (France). The fields of activity bring together territorial development and policy […]
This article first appeared on ROBUST’s website and has been re-blogged with permission from the authors. Modern lives are increasingly multilocal – but rural-urban policies are often yet to catch up. ROBUST’s Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, Ulla Ovaska and Theresia Oedl-Wieser reflect on what we know about multilocality, and what we should rethink as rural regions look ahead to futures beyond recovery. […]
Eduardo Oliveira is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (with the aim of Habilitation) at the Economic Geography Working Group of the Department of Geography at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. He teaches evolutionary economic geography and the interlinkage between sustainability principles and economic geography paradigms. His prime scientific interests are within the fields of spatial planning instruments […]
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. […]
Suntje Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Applied Economic Geography at the Humboldt University in Berlin, is the RSA Ambassador to Germany. “I am a researcher at the Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS, Department: Dynamics of Economic Spaces) as well as the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Junior Professor for Applied Economic Geography). Regions have always […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]