Since 2015, the IRI THESys has been awarding prizes for excellent Bachelor and Master theses in the field of human-environmental research. Now, all bachelor and master graduates of HU Berlin are again invited to apply for our THESys Award! Applications can be submitted during the application period from 15 September to 15 November 2023. Who…
Photo credits: Wiebke Hampel The Grand Challenges Conference of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), chaired by Prof. Dr. Petra Knaus (FU Berlin), addressed pressing contemporary societal challenges. Several researchers from IRI THESys joined the conference with various contributions. Tobias Krüger was the discussant of Margreet Zwarteveen’s keynote talk who championed the notion of care for…
Photo credits: Wiebke Hampel Paz Araya successfully defended her PhD thesis, Warmth Care in Cold Houses: Negotiations with the Indoor Thermal Environment in Southern Chile. This thesis explores how people in intermediate cities of southern Chile negotiate cold domestic environments through what I call warmth care — the active, ongoing practices through which thermal well-being…
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.
Transdisciplinary project for a mobile content campaign for and with riverine leaders on the water-energy-food nexus in the Magdalena-Cauca Basin
40 hours/month; start: 1 April 2026, end: 31 March 2027; application deadline: 25th March 2026
