Victoria Luh
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Victoria Luh is a social scientist and mediator interested in cooperation and participation formats between science, politics and society to shape socio-ecological transformation processes. In the group "Regional Sustainability Transformations" she is working on the structural change process in Lusatia and investigates how (political) participation and transdisciplinary projects influence the socio-psychological preconditions of social groups in transformation processes.
Previously, she conducted participatory research with trainees in the Lusatian lignite industry at RIFS in the project "Social Structural Change and Responsive Policy Advice in Lusatia", accompanied the Future Workshop Lusatia and evaluated the citizens' council Forum Corona Saxony.
Luh studied social sciences, political science and business psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Leuphana University of Lüneburg and Univerza v Ljubljani and is a certified mediator. She completed her studies with an ethnography in the district of Spree-Neiße on the question of lingering motives of transformation experiences after 1989 and their significance for participation processes in the Lusatian structural change process.
Projects
Groups
Blog Posts
- Since june 2022 Research Associate in the research group "Regional Sustainability Transformations"
- 2021-2022 Research associate in the project "Evaluation of the "Forum Covid-19" Citizens' Assembly in Saxony"
- 2019-2022 Research associate in the project "Social Transformation and Policy Advice in Lusatia"
- 2015-2018 Junior advisor and associate at comit GmbH
- 2016-2019 Master programme social sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2013-2014 Semester abroad at the University of Ljubljana, Slowenia
- 2011-2015 Bachelor programme political sciences and business psychology at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Transdisciplinary research and methods
- Qualitative and interpretative social research
- Social-ecological transformation research
- Science and Technology Studies
- Pragmatism, praxeology and ethnography
- Participation-oriented theory of democracy
Publications at the RIFS
- 1st prize of the ARL's Förderkreis für Raum- und Umweltplanung for the master's thesis "Marginality. The Lusatian coal exit in context of the societal decoupling experiences after 1989. An ethnographic study in the district of Spree-Neiße."