Haoying Li successfully defended her PhD thesis, Producing Rural Space in southwest China Entrepreneurship, Smallholders and Governance in the Transformation of Mianyang, Sichuan. This PhD thesis examines how rural space is produced in non-frontier regions of China, using Mianyang in Sichuan as a case study. It combines spatial analysis, qualitative fieldwork, and mixed methods to…
40 hours/month; duration 24 months; application deadline: 31st March 2026
Early online version of a new paper in npj Urban Sustainability, which explores how co-creating Edible Cities can either accelerate- or block- urban sustainability transitions.
40 hours/month; start: 1 April 2026, end: 31 March 2027; application deadline: 25th March 2026
In their new paper participants of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership offer a fresh perspective on leadership in transformative and transdisciplinary research
Artists, academics, and practitioners explore water-related projects and perspectives
Lecture by Prof. a.D. Dr. Ulrich Zeller on the biodiversity of grasslands in Central Europe and southern Africa
Tim Moss answers questions from InfraLab Berlin on practical lessons from the DFG project “Past-Proofing Infrastructure Futures”.
Sketch by Maxime Le Calvé Anja Klein successfully defended her PhD thesis, Doing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological relations in interdisciplinary sustainability research. The thesis explored the epistemological, ontological, and ethical dimensions of modelling in interdisciplinary sustainability research. Anja employed the metaphor of “patchwork” to simultaneously highlight their…
Photo credits: Andrés Vargas. Hyunjin Park successfully defended her PhD thesis, Reorganization of Bio-Based Innovations Towards Inclusion: Insights Into Responses, Constraints, and Governance Challenges. Her work was carried out at the Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften under the supervision of Philipp Grundmann, with Peter Feindt supporting her membership in IRI THESys. The defense took place…
