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Welcome to our Economic and Social Geography research group @unigreifswald.bsky.social! 🌍 👉 https://geo.uni-greifswald.de/lehrstuehle/geographie/wirtschafts-und-sozialgeographie/team/

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Nov 16

👋 Greetings! We, the Economic and Social Geography Group, are looking forward to getting in touch with you, giving you an insight into our work and sharing our latest research @unigreifswald.bsky.social and beyond! 🌍
Let's get connected! 🥳

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Max Roessler @max-roessler.bsky.social · Aug 1

I am thrilled and grateful to @mia-gray.bsky.social and the @regstud.bsky.social for the 2025 Paul Benneworth Award. Special thanks to Markus Grillitsch, @miorner.bsky.social and Daniel Schiller for an enriching and enjoyable writing process! 🙏😃
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2025 RSA Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award - RSA Main

Watch as Mia Gray, Chair of the Awards Committee, presents the 2025 Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award to Max Roessler, of the University of Greifswald, Germany and CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden for ...

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Max Roessler @max-roessler.bsky.social · Jun 24

New webinar series on regional inequalities and perceived left-behindness! With great support from the #YSI and @regstud.bsky.social, @crhistianjoel.bsky.social and I, invite you to four fantastic webinars from July to November 2025.
Details and registration: ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/ysi-rs...

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Jun 3

We’re celebrating! 🎉 Congratulations to Yang Liu for successfully defending her #PhD thesis at the @unigreifswald.bsky.social on “Interactions between Government, University, and Industry in Chinese Innovation Development: A Spatio-Institutional Perspective.”
👏 Well done, Yang!

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · May 10

Still buzzing from the great @regstud.bsky.social conference in Porto! We're grateful for a fantastic experience, looking back on inspiring talks and special sessions, and are happy to be part of such a vibrant community! 🙌
Thanks to everyone at the #RSA25 who organised, shared and connected! 😁

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RSA - Regional Studies, Regional Science @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social · Apr 30

🏆Congratulations to @max-roessler.bsky.social (@unigreifswald.bsky.social and CIRCLE, Lund U.), presented last week with the RSRS @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social Best Paper Award!

Check out his work "Untangling Regional Development Traps through Narratives" available in open access and linked below!

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Apr 15

Also, if you are interested in studying in Greifswald, or if you know someone who might be, have a look at our Regional Development Masters - one of many programmes to explore: geo.uni-greifswald.de/studium/msc-...

Master Regionalentwicklung und Tourismus - Fakultät - Universität Greifswald

Universität Greifswald

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Apr 15

Curious about our Geography & Geology Institute @unigreifswald.bsky.social? Our new image film showcases research, teaching, and the region - featuring our working group. 😁
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Geo² - Geographie und Geowissenschaften in Greifswald

Du interessierst Dich für Umwelt und globalen Wandel? Naturwissenschaften machen Dir Spaß, aber die Rolle des Menschen findest Du in dem Zusammenhang auch sehr wichtig? Dann solltest Du nach Greifs...

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Universität Greifswald @unigreifswald.bsky.social · Apr 4

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller ist seit Monatsbeginn neuer Prorektor für Forschung & Transfer. Er setzt sich für exzellente Wissenschaft und bessere Bedingungen in der frühen Karrierephase ein. Zudem plant er, die Universität stärker mit der Region zu vernetzen. Mehr im Interview: https://ugreif.de/mh8ct

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller ist neuer Prorektor Forschung und Transfer. © Gina Heitmann, 2025

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Max Roessler @max-roessler.bsky.social · Mar 26

Just published @regionalstudies.bsky.social! Markus Grillitsch, @miorner.bsky.social, Daniel Schiller and I examine the role of #narratives in place leadership, their influence on perceptions of opportunity spaces and introduce a multiple-phase framework for their analysis. 💭
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Shaping opportunity spaces: the role of narratives in place leadership

This paper aims to identify micro-level processes shaping the narratives surrounding regional opportunity spaces. A process perspective is applied to examine how place leaders engage in shaping nar...

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

The official programme of this year's Colloquium concludes with another lunch in our mensa and a joint closing discussion. We would like to thank all 30+ participants for their inspiring presentations and discussions and wish all our guests a pleasant journey home! 😊

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

In another example of the bright and diverse topics from the Colloquium and within our discipline, Felix Klimm presents his findings on the co-creation of educational escape rooms on paludiculture and peatlands as an approach to transformative education.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

After another fruitful coffee break, the final session of the day was opened by Xuheng Wang, who raised the question of the difference between "Clusterbranding" and "Cluster-Branding" in a local E-commerce context.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

Tillmann Meisel concludes the first session of the day with quantitative insights on the socio-spatial anchoring of transformational processes across German regions.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

Next, Ihar Buika presented his preliminary findings on an agonistic legitimation approach to regional innovation capacity in peripheralized regions of Eastern Germany.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

The third session of the colloquium, and today's first, includes three contributions from the same project and was kicked off by Johannes Müller, who examined social innovation discourses in rural Eastern Germany.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

On the bike excursion we then visited the historic market square, our historic museum harbour, rode along the towpath on the River Ryck to the ruins of Eldena Abbey, which was founded in 1199, and ended our tour in the fishing village of Wieck with a joint dinner.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

Daniel Schiller then introduced us to the history and development of the Hanseatic city of Greifswald and set the scene for the following field trip.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 19

After a walk through the sunny city centre of Greifswald and a lunch break in our mensa, we started the afternoon with a group discussion and reflections on our role as researchers and the relationship to our research.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 18

After insights into the meat industry, Jue Peng now turns our attention to the beer market in China, focusing on prosumers, changing values and market construction. After the discussion we should be ready for lunch.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 18

Marwaa Zazai continues the discourse on the geography of labour. She presents first insightful project findings on labour regimes and the management of migrant labour through cases from the German meat industry.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 18

After a coffee break with continued fruitful discussions and fresh fruits, @norakuettel.bsky.social presents her research plans and preliminary insights on labor, gender and memory in the context of transformation processes in East and West German shipyards.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 18

The first session of the day concluded with fascinating insights from @hanchu0322.bsky.social on firm-cluster-network reorganisation using the example of e-commerce platforms in several clusters of the furniture industry in China.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 18

Next, Lisa Deutschmann shares her inspiring thoughts on the role of stakeholders and institutions in Bremen's hydrogen transformation.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 18

After a cheerful dinner last night, Daniel Schiller opens the day and sets the scene for the Colloquium and @max-roessler.bsky.social kicks off with the first presentation on local agency in peripheral regions.

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Economic Geography Greifswald @geogreifswald.bsky.social · Mar 18

We are happy to host participants from @unibremen.bsky.social, @uni-kiel.de and @uni-hamburg.de for the 14th North German phd Colloquium in Economic Geography @unigreifswald.bsky.social. We wish all participants a great time at our Institute and will document the next few days below this post. 🤓

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