Dr. Carola Fricke
Lecturer and Researcher
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Research interests
- Urban and Metropolitan Studies
- Geographies of Housing
- Cross-border cooperation
- Qualitative and interpretative research
Lecturing and teaching activities (selection)
- Courses: Urban geography and metropolitan studies (metropolitan regions, geographies of housing, cross-border cooperation)
- Projects in urban and regional planning (urban policy, governance, cooperation)
- Excursions: Freiburg, Upper Rhine Valley, Berlin & surroundings, Ruhr Area, Randstad (Netherlands)
Memberships
- Member, European Urban Research Association (EURA) (https://eura.org)
- Member, Regional Studies Association (RSA) (https://www.regionalstudies.org)
- Member, Regional Working Group Baden-Württemberg, Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) (https://www.arl-net.de/projekte/lag-baden-württemberg)
- Member, Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (VGDH)
- Member and treasurer, Gesellschaft für Geographie und Ethnologie in Freiburg e.V. (GGE)
- Reviewer for academic journals (selection): Regional Studies, Urban Research and Practice, European Planning Studies, Regional & Federal Studies, Raumforschung und Raumordnung
Scholarships and awards
- 04/2019 Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg, grant for presenting at the American Association of Geographers in Washington D.C.
- 07/2016 teaching award of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, TU Berlin, for the results and final presentation of a student project on cross-border cooperation
- 2015 and 2016 DAAD Rise Scholarship for tutoring a DAAD student internship
- 02/2014 DAAD Promos Scholarship for participating in the methodological course on qualitative interpretive methods by the European Consortium for Political Research in Vienna
- 06/2011 Werner-Ernst Award of the Förderkreis für Raum- und Umweltforschung (FRAU) on the topic spatial development in Europe 2020
Vita
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Fellow in the habilitation program ‚Margarete von Wrangell‘ of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg and the European Social Fund (Lecturer and Researcher) | |
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Senior Lecturer (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit), Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg | |
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PhD (Dr. phil.), “The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies Policy Learning and Reframing of Metropolitan Regions in the Context of Europeanisation” | |
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Academic staff member and lecturer, Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg | |
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Academic staff member and lecturer at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Berlin University of Technology | |
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Academic staff member and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg | |
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Graduation (Magister Artium) in Political Science, Geography and Public Law, University of Freiburg |