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