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Cooperations with Universities and Research Institutes
One crucial pillar of the cooperation with the Universities of Brandenburg and Berlin are joint appointments together with the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, the University of Potsdam, the Free University of Berlin, the Technical University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. These university cooperation partners add to the multi-disciplinary research perspective of the IRS and provide the institutional framework for doctorates and habilitations of junior scientists.
Currently there are joint appointments with the
Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert, Director of the IRS)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Dr. Suntje Schmidt).
Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Gabriela Christmann Technische Universität Berlin and
Prof. Dr. Christoph Bernhardt Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin hold extraordinary professorships.
In addition, the right to award doctorates was granted to two junior research group leaders at the IRS:
Dr. Jana M. Kleibert (by Humboldt-University zu Berlin) and
Dr. Monika Motylinska (by Bauhaus-Universität Weimar).
Also, the IRS contributes to the combined research on the joint application for and implementation of coordinated programmes. Currently, the IRS contributes to the following programmes:
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Graduate School: Kulturelle und technische Werte historischer Bauten
Graduate School: Innovationsgesellschaft heute: die reflexive Herstellung des Neuen
Re-Figuration of Spaces is the first sociology-led Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) to be funded by the German Research Foundation. Prof. Dr. Gabriela Christmann of the IRS is involved in the CRC as a member of the management board and as spokesperson for Project Area B, “Spaces of Communication”, and leads the sub-project Digital Urban Planning: Planning Practices and Physical Arrangements.
At regular intervals, researchers from the IRS offer seminars and lectures at universities in Berlin and Brandenburg as well as in other federal states.
International Partnerships
The IRS maintains institutional partnerships with the following international research institutes:
Department of Geography at the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester
Centre of Urban History - School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester