Dr. Nora Winsky
Senior Lecturer (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit), currently on leave
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Research Interests
- Social and Cultural Geographie
- Geographies of Ageing
- Geographies of Care
- Tourism Studies
- Qualitative Methods of Social Research, Ethnographic Research
Lecturing and Teaching Activities
- Seminars: Tourism Research in Human Geography, Methods in Human Geography
- Project studies: Neighbourhood Life in Strasbourg, Tourism in den Black Forest
- Regional focus: Freiburg, Black Forest, Upper Rhine Region
Fellow in Advisory Councils and Committees
- Member of the Working Group “Qualitative Methods in Geography and Spatially Sensitive Social and Cultural Research” in the German Society for Geography (DGfG)
- Member of the Working Group “Tourism Research” in the German Society for Geography (DGfG)
- Member of the Urban Research Group “New Urban Tourism”, Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies
Honors and Awards
- 10/2022 Ralf Dahrendorf Prize of the Badische Zeitung (work on Upper Rhine regional studies from the fields of social, cultural, historical, forestry and environmental sciences)
- 10/2020 Teaching Fellowship at the University College Freiburg for the conception of an interdisciplinary course on science reflection in the field of science-technology-society
Vita
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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.), “Tourism Worlds On- and Offline: On the Mediatisation of Tourist Practices in Freiburg and the Black Forest Region” | |
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Practical training and transdisciplinary project at the Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe (FWTM) | |
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Doctoral candidate and research assistant at the graduate research group “New Travel – New Media”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, University of Freiburg | |
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Research assistant at the Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography and at CRC 1015 Otium. Boundaries, Chronotopes, Practices (sub-project “Experiencing Places and Moments of Otium in Contemporary European City Tourism”) | |
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Studies in Geography and German Philology, University of Freiburg |
Science Communication and Media Presence
- SWR aktuell, SWR2 (11/24/2022): „Sind Instagrammer die neuen Schwarzwaldmaler?“ online:
- Badische Zeitung (10/22/2022): „Instagrammer sind die Schwarzwaldmaler von heute“ – Interview. online:
- netzwerk südbaden (02/2022): Die Ruhe vor dem nächsten Ansturm? Zwei Jahre Pandemie haben unser Leben auf den Kopf und unsere Belastbarkeit auf die Probe gestellt. online:
- Badische Zeitung (11/11/0021): „Eine schöne Bescherung. Welche Auswirkungen die Nennung von Freiburg im Reiseführer Lonely Planet auf die Stadt hat.“ online:
- SWR aktuell (10/20/2021): „Landleben und Luxus aus dem Bauernhof.“ online: