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Welcome to the Department of Sociology of Rural Areas

Prof. Dr. Claudia Neu has held the Chair of Sociology of Rural Areas at the Universities of Göttingen and Kassel since September 2016. From 2009 - 2016, she was Professor of General Sociology and Empirical Social Research at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Previously, she worked at the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forests and Fisheries) in Braunschweig. Prof. Neu was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology and Demography at the University of Rostock. She studied and received her doctorate at the University of Bonn. Currently, she is working on the topics of demographic change, civil society and services of general interest in rural areas.

 

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    Chair of Sociology of Rural Areas

    • Deputy Chair of the Expert Council "Rural Development" of the BMEL (2016-2019);
    • Member of the working group "Mit Sicherheit mehr Sicherheit"? of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences (since 2016);
    • Scientific advisory board of the German Volunteer Survey (2012-2016);
    • Commission on Public Goods of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (2012-2015);
    • AK Regionale Daseinsvorsorge of the BMVI (since 2012-2014);
    • Commission "Art for Villages - Villages for Art" of the German Foundation for Cultural Landscape (2009 and 2012);
    • Jury member of the model project "LandZukunft" of the BMELV (2011/2) as well as
    • Expert panel "Zusammenhalt durch Teilhabe" of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (since 2010).
    • Der Wert gleicher Lebensverhältnisse, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2015 (with J. Kersten/B. Vogel);
    • Regionale Daseinsvorsorge, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2015 (with J. Kersten/B. Vogel);
    • Demografie und Demokratie (with J. Kersten/B. Vogel), Hamburg 2012.
    • Demographischer Wandel als infrastrukturelle Provokation, (with J. Kersten/B. Vogel), Leviathan, issue 4/2012.
    • Daseinsvorsorge - eine gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Annäherung, (ed.), VS Verlag Wiesbaden 2009.