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Anika Schmidt

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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

Curriculum Vitae

since 01/2018

scientific staff at the Department for Urban and Environmental Sociology at UFZ

12/2018 - 12/2020

Management of the Integrated Project "Urban Transformations" at UFZ

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)

02/2011 - 02/2015

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

Schmidt, A.; Haase, A. (2023): „Ankommen“ und Wohnen von Migrant*innen in europäischen Städten: Einblicke in den transdisziplinären Austausch innerhalb des Projekts HOUSE-IN und die Fallstudie Leipzig. PoWiNE, Bd. 3 (2023): Slavici, Melanie (ed.): Wohnen & Nachhaltigkeit: Politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven https://doi.org/10.24352/UB.OVGU-2023-005

Haase, A., Schmidt; A.; Rink, D. (2023): Grüne Gentrifizierung. In: Sonnberger, M., Bleicher, A., Groß, M. (eds.): Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37222-4_57-1

Haase, Annegret; Allsopp, Harriet; Arroyo, I., Franz, Yvonne; Laksevics, Karlis; Lazarenko, Valeria; Nasya, Bahanur; Raubisko, Ieva; Reeger, Ursula; Saadeh, Bana; Schmidt, Anika; Stevens, Ulrika (2022): Refugee migration from Ukraine to other parts of Europe – challenges with regard to the housing-integration intersection at the city level. Radical Housing Journal 4(2): 211-216. https://doi.org/10.54825/FIQX5453

Astolfo, Giovanna; Allsopp, Harriet; Duszczyk, Maciej; Franz, Yvonne; Haase, Annegret; Laksevics, Karlis; Nasya, Bahanur; Raubisko, Ieva; Reeger, Ursula; Schmidt, Anika (2022): Now and then. Precariousness, double standards and racism in housing refugees. University College London Blog, 20.06.2022 and Cooperative City Magazine, 12.07.2022.

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. book website

Alexander, C.; Schmidt, A. (2021): Raumpotentiale für eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf potentiell obsolete Stadtstrukturen. In: Meinel, G.; Krüger, T.; Behnisch, M.; Ehrhardt, D. (Hrsg.): Flächennutzungsmonitoring XI Berlin: Rhom-bos, IÖR Schriften 79: 39-50. https://doi.org/10.26084/13dfns-p004

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. full text

Haase, Annegret; Schmidt, Anika (2019). Grüne Freiräume in Ankunftsquartieren: Funktionen und Herausforderungen für ihre kooperative Entwicklung. UFZ Discussion Paper 4/2019. full text

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 full text

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. full text

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. full text

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. full text

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. full text

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JURSE 2023 - Heraklion Crete

16 May - 19 May 2023
As a member of the JURSE Scientific Committee, Ellen Banzhaf is participating in the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event in Greece. There she will present central work of the platform project 6.4, Resilient Cities. They mainly deal with questions of blue-green transformations in cities and urban environmental risks. In this context, the monitoring of different ecosystem services in fast-growing cities plays an important role as well as the exposure to environmental risks in relation to different residential structures. In addition to methodological topics of urban remote sensing, the event will focus on the application of urban remote sensing to social sciences, urban planning and environmental protection as well as urban ecology. Further training offers of this event include technical tutorials, e.g. for fast online EO processing of geohazards in order to be able to quickly detect hazard-prone areas in an urban context.
For further details see here.

Daniel Hertel completed his PhD project

With the defence of his dissertation in September 2022 on the topic of "Optimisation of urban heat adaptation measures" and its publication in the Leipzig University Library in November 2022, Daniel Hertel has successfully completed his PhD project. This research work was largely supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) as part of a doctoral scholarship. In addition to Prof. Dr Johannes Quaas (University of Leipzig, Institute of Meteorology), Prof. Dr Uwe Schlink (UFZ, Leipzig) was the main supervisor.

Daniel Hertel's work focused on assigning causes to urban overheating. Based on micrometeorological simulations, the developed algorithm generates maps to identify the biophysical factors responsible for local overheating. As a result of the new attribution algorithm, recommendations for more effective and targeted adaptation measures could be developed.

Link to the dissertation

Risk Communication to support property level adaptation

In January 2023, the final report of the project "PIVO - Private Eigenvorsorge" was published. The project was funded by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Christian Kuhlicke, PIVO investigated how different communication formats (a serious game on flood protection, a simulation and a precautionary information campaign) affect the motivation of citizens to take precautions against the consequences of climate change. This report provides a detailed and illustrative overview of the developed communication formats and the results of an extensive evaluation. A longitudinal survey was conducted in 11 municipalities, with six cities serving as control municipalities in order to draw controlled conclusions on the effectiveness of the communication formats. You can find the report under the following link (it’s in German and includes a English summary).

New project on resilience planning in German municipalities

In December, the one-year project “Resilience in municipal practice – How about resilience?” started with the collaboration of Prof. Dr. Christian Kuhlicke, Prof. Dr. Dieter Rink, Janine Pößneck und Anika Schmidt. Financed by and in close exchange with the German federal association on housing and urban development, called vhw, the team will elaborate a survey of debate, knowledge and planning related to urban resilience in German municipalities. Based on literature analysis and interviews a synthesis report will be published at the end of the project. The overall goal is to further refine the concept of urban resilience and elaborate suggestions for municipal planning. The project is part of the platform project „Transformations towards resilient cities".

Uwe Schlink as a fellow at Durham University (UK)

At the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), he presents his current research and establish academic connections during his research stay from October - December 2022.

Uwe Schlink as a fellow at Durham University (UK)

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Publications

URBIO 2022 Book of Abstracts

The 7^th Conference of the International Network Urban Biodiversity and Design (URBIO) with the theme “Integrating Biodiversity in Urban Planning and Design Processes” took place on 28-30 Nov. 2022 at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig. The book of abstracts has now been published.

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