Research Associate for the Project “StudentCities“ - Economic and Urban Geography § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG

Your responsibilities

Duties primarily include 66.67 % teaching and research and 33.33 % academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications. They may also pursue doctoral studies outside of working duties.

The position focuses on financial geography, assetisation, critical housing market research and urban geography. You will be involved in a DFG-funded project ‘Making markets, transforming student cities: The rise of purpose-built student accommodation in Germany and the Netherlands’ (StudentCities), which analyses the development of profit-oriented student accommodation in Germany and the Netherlands from an economic and urban geography perspective. The research pursues a relational-comparative approach that analyses both the (transnational) networks of key players in profit-oriented student accommodation and location-based urban policy. In this way, it contributes to academic debates on the financialisation of student housing.

You can realise an independent dissertation research related to this project. Among other things, you will have the opportunity to conduct a case study in the Netherlands, or may be able to take an in-depth look at other housing segments, such as co-living or micro-living. We offer you the opportunity to take part in high-ranking national and international conferences and workshops.

You will be an active member of Prof. Dr. Jana Kleibert's working group. In addition to your research activities in the DFG project ‘StudentCities’, you will also be actively involved in teaching. The position is partially funded by equal opportunities funding and includes teaching activities of 2 hours teaching per week (LVS) in human geography.