Corinna Jürgens

Contact
Saarland University
Campus
Building C5 3
Room 2.07
D-66123 Saarbrücken
Phone: +49 681 302-64203
corinna.juergen(at)uni-saarland.de
Professional career
- Since January 2022 Research assistant within the Junior Professorship for European Studies in the Department of European Studies in the Social Sciences at Saarland University
- 2020-21 Research assistant in the research area of human geography at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Scientific career
- 2022 Awarded the Young Researchers Award of the Arbeitskreis Tourismusforschung for the best Master's thesis in 2021 (first place).
- Since 2022 PhD project at Saarland University
- 2018-2021 Studies Geography of Global Change at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, degree M. Sc.
- 2014-2018 Studies of Geography at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, degree B. Sc.
- 2017 Semester abroad at the Università degli Studi di Perugia in Italy
Research focus
- Project manager of the research project „Urban borderlands in the suburban core of the Métropole du Grand Paris. A discourse-theoretical conceptualisation between macro- and micro-perspective".
- Discursive construction of borders and border spaces
- Multidimensional processes of border drawing
- Social change
- Urban development
- Tourism research
- Qualitative methods of empirical human geography