Anika Schmidt
Contact
Anika Schmidt (M.Sc.)
Scientific Staff
Department Urban and Environmental Sociology
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig
anika.schmidt@ufz.de
Research Interests
- participatory urban governance
- cooperative urban development
- urban lab approaches
- urban development oriented towards the common good
- urban (environmental) justice
- transdisciplinary and transformative scientific approaches
Working Groups
Working Group „Urban Environmental Research“
Addressing Challenges of Urban Transformations and Resilience. On the Role of Conflicts, Crises, and Paradoxes (sub-project 1 within UFZ platform-project Transformations towards resilient cities)
Blue-Green urban transformations. Solutions for multifunctionality and resilience (sub-project 2 within UFZ platform-project Transformations towards resilient cities)
Current Projects
The Housing-Integration-Nexus: shaping exchange and innovation for migrants’ access to housing and social inclusion- HOUSE-IN (06/2021-11/2022)
Past Projects
Obsolete Stadt: Raumpotentiale für eine gemeinwohlorientierte, klimagerechte und koproduktive Stadtentwicklung in wachsenden Großstädten (03/2020 - 12/2021, project ends 12/2022)
KoopLab: Participation through Cooperative Open Space Development (01/2018-09/2021)
Curriculum Vitae
since 01/2018
scientific staff at the Department for Urban and Environmental Sociology at UFZ
12/2018 - 12/2020
since 10/2011
freelance and voluntary work as trainer in political education
10/2012 - 09/2016
M.Sc. Social and Economic Geography at the University of Leipzig (focus subjects: Urban Management and Globalisation Reserach)
final thesis: "Decentral Accommodation of refugees in Leipzig. Municipal Fields of Action and the influence of non-state actors" (supervised by Dr. Reinhard Wießner and Dr. Annegret Haase)
Student/scientific assistant in different project related to (re-)migration and regional development at the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography - IfL (not constantly)
09/2015 - 12/2015
Research Stay and Internship at the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism, European Humanities University, Vilnius
10/2007 - 09/2012
B.Sc. Geography at the Dresden Technical University (focus subjects: Sociology and Water Management, additional minor degree in Latin American Studies)
Publikationen
Haase, Annegret, Schmidt, Anika (2021): Grüne
Gentrifizierung. Eine neue Herausforderung für nachhaltige
Stadtentwicklung. In: Glatter, Jan; Mießner, Michael (Hg.):
Gentrifizierung und Verdrängung. Aktuelle theoretische, methodische und
politische Herausforderungen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
Haase, Annegret; Schmidt, Anika; Rink, Dieter; Kabisch, Sigrun (2020): Leipzig’s Inner East as an Arrival Space? Exploring the Trajectory of a Diversifying Neighbourhood. Urban Planning Vol 5, No 3 (2020): Urban Arrival Spaces: Social Co-Existence in Times of Changing Mobilities and Local Diversity.
Haase, Annegret; Schmidt, Anika (2019). Grüne Freiräume in Ankunftsquartieren: Funktionen und Herausforderungen für ihre kooperative Entwicklung. UFZ Discussion Paper 4/2019.
Haase, Annegret; Schmidt, Anika (2019). Grüne Freiräume in heterogenen Quartieren sowie Chancen ihrer kooperativen Entwicklung: Wie sind diese Debatten bislang verknüpft und welche offenen Fragen gibt es? Blogbeitrag bei ESP.DE
Werner, Franziska; Haase, Annegret; Renner, Nona; Rink, Dieter; Rottwinkel, Malena; Schmidt, Anika (2018): The Local Governance of Arrival in Leipzig: Housing of Asylum-Seeking Persons as a Contested Field. Urban Planning Vol 3, No 4.
Wiest, Karin; Glöckner, Rick; Leibert, Tim; Schaarwächter, Matthias; Schmidt, Anika (2014): Dealing with female brain-drain in rural Europe: results from the CENTRAL EUROPE Project WOMEN. Leipzig: Leibniz-Inst. für Länderkunde. (Forum IfL 26)
Lang, Thilo; Hämmerling, Aline; Haunstein, Stefan; Keil, Jan; Nadler, Robert; Schmidt, Anika; Smoliner, Stefanie (2014): Migrants' capacities and expectations : empirical results concerning return migration. In: Return migration to Central and Eastern Europe : transnational migrants' perspectives and local businesses' needs / Thilo Lang & Robert Nadler (Hrsg.). Leipzig: Leibniz-Inst. für Länderkunde (Forum IfL 23), S. 7 - 46.
Lang, Thilo; Hämmerling, Aline; Keil, Jan; Robert Nadler; Schmidt, Anika; Haunstein, Stefan; Smoliner, Stefanie (2012): Re-Turn Migrant Survey Report: The Migrants’ Potential and Expectations. Leipzig: Leibniz-Inst. für Länderkunde.