Research Projects
Here you will find an overview of the department’s current research projects.
Project Director: Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland
Project duration: January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027
Funded by: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Research Associates: Dr. Urszula Woźniak, M.A. Julia Greve
Student Research Assistant: Aleksandra Czajka
Critical Perspectives on Uprootings and Regroundings
Principal Investigator: Christine Barwick-Gross
Project Duration: Project Duration: from 06/2024 –
Principal Investigator: Christine Barwick-Gross
Project Duration: Project Duration: Starting in October 2023 –
Kreuzberg Study (3): Needs, Resources, and Community Life in the Werner-Düttmann Housing Estate
Principal Investigator: Talja Blokland
Collaborators: Vojin Serbedzija, Muhammet Tiryaki, Hannan Mahmood
Project duration: 09/2023 – 12/2024
Discrimination in the labor market of women and migrants in Germany and France (ANR-DFG)
Project Lead: Christine Barwick-Gross
Project Duration: 08/2021 – 03/2024
Housing policy under the conditions of financialization. The impact of institutional investors on affordable housing in European cities” (HoPoFin). (Funded by Urban School SciencesPo)
Principal investigator: Andrej Holm
Project duration: 2023 – 2024
No Profits from Rent! Strategies for the sustainable and socially responsible management of large housing stocks to ensure their long-term preservation. (Funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Principal Investigator: Andrej Holm
Project Duration: 2023 – 2024
Land Policy for the Common Good. Short study commissioned by the Paritätischer Gesamtverband. Berlin: The Paritätische Gesamtverband
Responsible: Andrej Holm
Project duration: 2021–2022
Municipalism in Practice. Can municipalist principles be implemented in the field of housing policy, and if so, how? (Funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Responsible: Andrej Holm
Project duration: 2020–2022
Income, Rent, Inequality. Analysis of Housing Conditions and Housing Provision in Major Cities (2006 to 2018) (Research funding by the Hans Böckler Foundation)
Responsible: Andrej Holm
Project duration: 2020–2021
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1265), Subproject C04: The World on My Street: Resources and Networks of Urban Residents
Responsible: Talja Blokland
Project duration: 2018–2021
Kreuzberg Study (2): Perceptions of Safety at Kottbusser Tor
Principal Investigator: Talja Blokland
Project Duration: 2019–2020
Building Blocks for a New Social Housing Model (Research project in cooperation with the future.lab at TU Wien)
Principal Investigator: Andrej Holm
Project Duration: 2019–2020
Kreuzberg Study (1): Living Is Not Normal – Everyday Life of Youth in Two Kreuzberg Neighborhoods
Responsible: Talja Blokland
Project duration: 2017–2018
Gentrification Research in Germany 1980–2012
Responsible: Andrej Holm
Project duration: 2013–2018
Social Housing Needs. Housing Conditions, Housing Needs, and the Housing Policy Instruments of the Federal and State Governments (Research funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation)
Principal Investigator: Andrej Holm
Project duration: 2016–2017
Urbanizing Faith - Practices in Precarity and Views on the Future
Principal Investigator: Talja Blokland
Project Duration: since 2013 – ongoing
The City Underground: Processes of Exclusion in a Gentrifying City
Principal Investigator: Talja Blokland
Does the Urban Gentry Help? Social capital and collective action in a mixed neighborhood
Principal Investigator: Talja Blokland
Eyes on the Street
Principal Investigator: Talja Blokland
Europe’s Internal Borders at the Intersection of Local Border Practice and Urban Citizenship
Principal Investigator: Henrik Lebuhn
GentriMap. Visualization of Urban Development Trends
Principal Investigator: Andrej Holm
Project Duration: 2011 to 2016
Principal Investigator: Andrej Holm
Project Duration: 2014 to 2015
NICIS - Public Space
Principal Investigator: Talja Blokland
Project Duration: 2008 - 2012
Completed Research Projects
An overview of the department’s completed research projects can be found here.