Dr. Annegret Haase

Contact

Dr. Annegret Haase
Research Associate
Deputy Head of Dept.

Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research – UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

phone: +49 - 341 - 6025 1735
Dr. Annegret Haase

Annegret Haase

Areas of Expertise & Research

  • Urban transformation, sustainability and resilience
  • Urban crises and conflicts
  • Socio-spatial inequalities, diversity and equity in the context of sustainability transformations
  • Local governance and participation, new neighbourhoods
  • Social science perspectives on blue-green urban transformations

Curriculum Vitae

since 5/2012

scientific collaborator at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; since 3/2013 participation in EU 7FP project "DIVERCITIES - Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today's Hyper-diversified Cities" (until 2/2017)

5/2009 - 4/2012

scientific collaborator at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; EU 7 FP research project "SHRINK SMART - Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context"

5/2006 - 4/2010

scientific collaborator at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; VW foundation sponsored research project "conDENSE – Social and spatial consequences of demographic change for East central European cities"

11/2002 - 4/2006

scientific collaborator at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; EU 5 FP research project "Re Urban Mobil - Mobilising reurbanisation on condition of demographic change"

1999 - 2002

Scientific collaborator at the Institute of Regional Geography in Leipzig 2000-2002 DFG sponsored project "Patterns of change and persistence of socio-economic and spatial structures and relations within and between the border regions of Poland and its eastern neighbouring countries in the transition period" 1999 co-editing of the publication "Polen-aktuell" (series "Daten, Fakten, Literatur zur Geographie Europas 6")

Academic qualification

2001

Granting of the doctorate by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Leipzig for Cultural studies; grade "magna cum laude"

1996 - 1999

PhD thesis funded by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SYLFF), topic "South-eastern Poland between transition and reorientation"

1990 - 1995

studies at the University of Leipzig Cultural studies, sociology, ethnology (magistra artium)
1995 final exam (grade "very good")


Current Projects

POF 4 Project 'Resilient Cities' (2021 – 2027) (co-spokesperson)

UT-UBGI – Urban Transformations – Urban Blue-Green Infrastructures (Helmholtz Association, 2024 – 2027)

REFRAME – Framings of Arrival: Transnational Perspectives on Perceptions, Policy Approaches and Migrant Practices of Refugees 2015/16 and 2022/23 in Comparison (2024 – 2027, DFG-AHRC)

EMBRACE – Emergent Resilience: Mobilising and building responsive and adaptive communities (using the example of Ukrainian cities) (2024 – 2026)


Completed Projects

POF3 Integrated project "Urban Transformations" (2013-2019)

KoopLab: Integration through cooperative develpment of open spaces - real-world labs strengthening the socio-ecological development of 'arrival neighbourhoods' (BMBF, 2018-2020)

MigraChance: Migration-related conflicts as challenge and chance for institutional change in large cities and small towns (BMBF, 2018-2021)

DIVERCITIES - Governing Urban Diversity: Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today's Hyper-diversified Cities

SHRINK SMART: The Governance of Shrinkage within a European Context

Polish and German large housing estates yesterday, today and tomorrow. On the change of urbanistic guidelines and their acceptance, researched by means of the examples Katowice and Leipzig. (sponsored by German-Polish Sciences Foundation)

Social and spatial consequences of demographic change for cities in East Central Europe

Re Urban Mobil - Mobilising Re-urbanisation on Condition of Demographic Change