Team > Prof. Dr. Beate Lohnert
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Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Lehrstuhl für geographische Entwicklungsforschung
Biography
2001 | Post-Doctorate / Post-doctoral Study in social and economic geography at the university of Osnabrück. Title of the Post-Doctorate monograph: Vom Hüttendorf zur Eigenheimsiedlung - in Selbsthilfe? Städtischer Wohnungsbau im 'Neuen Südafrika'. Ist Kapstadt das Modell? |
1995 | Completion of Doktorate (Dr. rer. nat) at the Geoscience Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (summa cum laude) Titel of the thesis: Überleben am Rande der Stadt - Ernährungssicherungspolitik, Getreidehandel und verwundbare Gruppen in Mali The dissertation was awarded the Karl-Theodor-Kromer research prize from the University of Freiburg. |
1990 | Master of Arts and 1st State examination at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in geography and English philology |
Professional Career
Since 2004 | Professor of Development Studies in Geography at the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences at the University of Bayreuth. |
2003 - 2004 | Representation of the Chair of Applied Geography at the Geographical Institute of the University of Stuttgart. |
1995 - 2003 | Assistant professor (C1) and senior assistant (C2) at the Department of Culture and Geography/ Department of Geography, University of Osnabrück. |
1993-1995 | Research associate at the Institute of Cultural Geography at the University of Freiburg. |
1992 | Coworker at the Centre for Advanced Training in rural Development of the Humboldt University of Berlin |
Presentation
Features & Memberships
- BIGSAS Senior Fellow (Principal Investigator)
- Speaker (together with Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas, Cologne and Prof. Dr. Rainer Werhahn, Kiel) of the DGfG-Working Group: Urban Geography in developing regions
- Member of the Editorial Boards of “Bayreuther Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung” (BayBAF) and of „Bayreuth African Studies Online” (BASO)
- Institute of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth
- Centre for Natural Risks and Development, Bayreuth
- Graduate Program (M.Sc.) Global Change Ecology in the Elite Network of Bavaria
- DGfG -AK Subsaharisches Afrika
- Geographic Working Group development theories
- DGfG-AK: Urban Geography in developing regions
- Fellow am Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) of the University of Osnabrück
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Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Lehrstuhl für geographische Entwicklungsforschung
Research interests
Human Geography (Social, Economic and Population Geography), Development Studies in Geography
- Food Security, Agricultural Policy
- Rural-urban linkages
- Urban and Regional Planning, town planning with a focus on informal settlements (Upgrading, Low-Cost Housing, Resettlement)
- Refugee and Migration Research
- Social dimensions of global environmental change, political ecology
- Moderation of land use conflicts
- Methods of participatory reserach, planning and implementation / team work and team management in planning
- Regional focus: Southern Africa, the Sahel countries, East Africa, Italy, Spain, South-West-Germany
![Lohnert](../../../pool/bilder/Lohnert.jpg)
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Lehrstuhl für geographische Entwicklungsforschung
Prof. Dr. Beate Lohnert
Chair
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
95447 Bayreuth
Room: 145, GEO II
Sprechstunde: Mittwoch 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2277
E-mail: beate.lohnert@uni-bayreuth.de