School of Culture and Society
Organisational unit: Research School
Organisation profile
Leuphana University Lüneburg's School of Culture and Society is driven by the deep conviction that contemporary scientific and societal challenges can only be addressed by transcending traditional academic disciplines. Our college’s five institutes feature more than one hundred faculty from disciplines including art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography, and history. Together, they form a highly integrated network in terms of both their research and teaching, continuing a successful tradition of cooperation and collaboration in cultural studies that has defined our programme for almost forty years.
Main research areas
Culture and Society at Leuphana
More than 100 academics from the humanities and social sciences work at the School of Culture and Society at Leuphana. They pursue the shared goal of further developing the cultural studies project in the context of changing socio-cultural conditions. The point is not to dissolve individual disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, but rather to establish a specific cultural studies programme that aims at a critique of the present.
Research Areas
The School of Culture and Society focuses on cross-disciplinary research that explores questions that are highly significant to contemporary society. Our two primary research areas (Digital Cultures and Cultures of Critique) and our one research initiative (Cultures of Conflict) form a framework for innovative, advanced research in cultural studies. All of these research areas rely heavily on collaboration, and they include colloquia, conferences, and summer programs as well as ongoing collaborations with numerous externally funded projects.
Von Open Access zu Open Science: Zum Wandel von wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation im Rahmen der Digitalisierung
Heise, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.12 → 29.01.17
Project: Dissertation project
Post-sozialistische Regierungssystemreform: Armenien, Kroatien, Russland und die Ukraine im Vergleich
Seha, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.11 → 10.07.14
Project: Dissertation project
ISTME: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe
Hobuß, S. (Partner)
30.10.12 → 29.10.16
Project: Research
Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Erinnerungskultur
Hobuß, S. (Partner), Dhouib, S. (Project manager, academic) & Jürgens, A. (Partner)
20.02.13 → 31.12.15
Project: Research
Strategiebildung in der subnationalen Klimaanpassungspolitik (Arbeitstitel)
Ebermann, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → 30.09.14
Project: Dissertation project
Value Orientations and Cooperation: Exploring the Value-Behavior Link
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic) & Thöni, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
Bürgermeisterwahlkämpfe im Professionalisierungsdiskurs der Wahlkampfforschung. Ein kandidatenzentrierter Vergleich in niedersächsischen Städten
Freund, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.10 → 23.07.13
Project: Dissertation project
Representation in the European Union
Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic) & Kröger, S. (Partner)
28.11.09 → 15.01.13
Project: Research
E-Participation in the European Multi-Level System. Supply and Use of New Digital Media in the European Parliament.
Kunert, J. S. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 01.02.15
Project: Dissertation project
Repression, Mobilization, and Civil Society
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic), Inglehart, R. C. (Partner) & Deutsch, F. (Partner)
01.01.12 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
Political Culture and Political Development
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic) & Dalton, R. J. (Partner)
01.01.09 → 31.12.13
Project: Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
Party Government in the New Europe. London: Routledge
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Keman, H. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 31.10.11
Project: Research
Subnationale Demokratiemuster in Asien und Lateinamerika
Böttcher, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 01.09.17
Project: Dissertation project
Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Die neuen EU-Staaten im Vergleich.
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Grotz, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 31.08.10
Project: Research
Personalization of Politics
Müller-Rommel, F. (Project manager, academic) & Garzia, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.14 → 31.08.17
Project: Research
DCRL: Digital Cultures Research Lab (2013 - 2016)
Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Pias, C. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic), Leeker, M. (Project manager, academic), Beverungen, A. (Project staff), Bialski, P. (Project manager, academic), Kaldrack, I. (Project manager, academic), Simons, S. (Project manager, academic), Sprenger, F. (Project manager, academic), Sander, N. (Partner), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Feigelfeld, P. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
21.02.13 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
Weiterempfehlung als informative und soziale Funktion in Kulturinstitutionen
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Dissertation project
CSR-Kommunikation: Einflussfaktoren der Glaubwürdigkeit
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic)
15.09.12 → 30.06.16
Project: Dissertation project
Social Desirability Bias im Kulturbereich
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Mers, A. (Project staff), Heinen, A. (Project staff), Bögel, P. M. (Project staff) & Sikkenga, J. (Project staff)
01.04.12 → 31.05.17
Project: Research
Strategic policy making in research and innovation policy (working titel)
Hufnagl, M. (Project manager, academic)
10.10.11 → 01.04.15
Project: Dissertation project
Deliberative Bürgerbeteiligung in der deutschen Debatte um Priorisierung in der medizinischen Versorgung - Potentiale und Grenzen
Stumpf, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 31.03.15
Project: Dissertation project
Einsatz von Architektur bei der Markenbildung von Kulturunternehmen
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.09 → 23.06.14
Project: Dissertation project
Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation
Elischer, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 01.09.14
Project: Research
Messung der Wirkung von Architektur als Erlebnisträger beim Museumsbesuch
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.12 → 23.06.14
Project: Research
How to attract visitors with strategic, value-based experience design - A review and analysis of customer experience and visitor segmentation research for cultural organisations
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic), Ober-Heilig, N. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project staff)
01.10.11 → 31.01.13
Project: Research
Der Sound der Leuphana. Campus Compilation
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)
01.10.12 → 01.05.13
Project: Practical Project
Bestimmung impliziter Motive der Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine qualitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Einfluss impliziter Motive auf die Weiterempfehlungsabgabe in Kulturinstitutionen - eine quantitative Studie
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Sikkenga, J. (Project manager, academic)
15.01.09 → 31.05.13
Project: Research
Workshop Print-PR
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.08.12 → 31.08.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Video-Podcast-Projekt
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.09.12 → 30.11.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Workshop PM/PV
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.05.12 → 31.05.12
Project: Transfer (professional training)
Workshop externe PR Print oder Online
Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S. (Project manager, academic) & Adam, U. (Project staff)
01.07.11 → 31.07.11
Project: Transfer (professional training)
MONA: Modes of sustainability-related research in comparison (MONA): Modes of research and their impact on scientific and societal project outcomes - a comparative analysis of 100 third-party funded sustainability-related research projects
Newig, J. (Project manager, academic) & Jahn, S. (Project staff)
15.04.13 → 08.09.21
Project: Research
Significant: Details Conversations with Women in Science
Fuchs, M. (Project manager, academic), Gupta, S. (Coordination) & Hoppenhaus, K. (Project staff)
01.01.13 → 30.06.13
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
Forschungsprojekt: Julius Meier-Graefe und die "neue" Kunstkritik
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → …
Project: Research
Gamers' games: narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture
Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)
22.09.09 → 01.01.14
Project: Dissertation project
CLICK Festival - First Viewer Television
Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)
07.05.13 → 12.05.13
Project: Practical Project
Leuphana Soundscape
Großmann, R. (Project manager, academic) & Engelberg, B. (Project staff)
01.07.13 → 30.06.14
Project: Practical Project
College Studien in der Praxis- Wirtschaftsförderung der Samtgemeinde Horneburg & GD Incentives GmbH
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pries, M. (Project staff)
01.04.12 → 30.09.12
Project: Practical Project
Förderung des Ausbaus eines Programms für Schlüsselqualifikationen an den Mitgliedshochschulen der Internationalen Bodenseehochschule
Herbrik, R. (Project staff) & Stadler, A. (Project manager, academic)
15.06.06 → 15.09.07
Project: Research
Emotionalisierung der Religion. Neue emotionale Stile im Kontext religöser Erfahrung
Herbrik, R. (Project manager, academic) & Knoblauch, H. (Project manager, academic)
20.10.10 → 30.09.13
Project: Research
Kommunikative Vermittlungsstrategien des Imaginären
Herbrik, R. (Project staff) & Soeffner, H.-G. (Project manager, academic)
15.10.06 → 15.09.09
Project: Research
Linie Figur Grund. Tanzdarstellungen bei Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mordhorst, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Gamer's games: Narratives of opposition, independence and engagement in video game culture
Ruffino, P. (Project manager, academic)
14.09.09 → 31.08.14
Project: Dissertation project
Putting the figure on the map: Imagining sameness and difference for children. Conference, Princeton University, 11. -13.09.2013
O'Sullivan, E. (Project manager, academic) & Immel, A. (Partner)
01.09.12 → 31.12.13
Project: Scientific event
Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2013
Pias, C. (Project manager, academic)
03.10.13 → 03.07.14
Project: Scientific event
Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Anerkennung in der medialen Klimakommunikation aus kosmopolitischer Perspektive
Grittmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.13 → …
Project: Research
Chronotope: Time has come today. Special time patterns of pop-musical chronotopes and their impact on the temporal differentiation of life worlds since the 1960s
Schrage, D. (Project manager, academic), Respondek, L. (Project staff) & Schwetter, H. (Project staff)
01.03.14 → 20.10.15
Project: Research
College-Studien in der Praxis- Nachhaltiges Nutzungskonzept für das Heimathaus
Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Kirschner, U. (Project staff)
01.04.11 → 30.09.11
Project: Practical Project