Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Research Lounge

A series of events organised by the Vice President for Research

 

The Research Lounge sees itself as an academic networking event. The aim is to bring together the diversity of disciplinary approaches, research perspectives and expertise at Humboldt-Universität and other Berlin universities.
Academics from different career stages are invited to present their research projects in the form of short impulses. Afterwards, all participants will have the opportunity to engage in a collegial thematic exchange.
 

Past event:

 
The fifth Research Lounge took place on Tuesday, 3 June 2025 on the topic of 'Participatory Approaches in Research', this time at the Central Institute 'Centre for Cultural Techniques' (ZfK) on Campus North. It was organised by the team of the Vice President Research in cooperation with the competence field ‘Knowledge Exchange with Society’. Numerous interested researchers gathered to gain an interesting insight into the diverse research activities on participatory research based on the ten keynote speeches. This was followed by a collegial exchange on the opportunities and challenges of participatory research.

 

 

Programme

 

14:00 Uhr - Welcome
  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider (Vice President for Research)
  • Xenia Muth, Leonie Kubigsteltig (Centre for Cultural Technology)
14:20 Uhr - Keynote speeches
  • Dr. Saskia Schäfer (Institute for Asian and African Studies):
    Participatory Research on Democracy: Insights from Civic Education and Local Decision-Making
  • Dr. Silke Stöber (Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences):
    Participatory action research for food systems transformations: methods and challenges
  • Prof. Dr. Regina Römhild (Institute for European Ethnology):
    Postcolonial Neighborhoods: A new experiment in collective ethnography and trans-academic collaboration
  • Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven (Institute for German Language and Linguistics):
    Sprachen Berlins – Languages of Berlin: Mapping the City’s Linguistic Diversity
  • Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita (Institute for Romance Studies):
    Using Citizen Science to examine geospatial and sociolinguistic variation and change
15:20-15:30 Uhr - Break
  • Prof. Dr. Robert Arlinghaus (Integrative Fisheries Management, IGB, IRI THESys):
    Co-production of knowledge in participation changes attitudes, norms and behaviour of practitioners: Examples from fisheries research
  • Prof. Dr. Heike Wiese (Institut for German Language and Linguistics):
    Shaping multilingualism together: Participatory research with Berlin pupils and HU students
  • Dr. Constanze Saunders (Professional School of Education):
    'Learning schools' and research-based teacher training
  • Indrawan Prabaharyaka (Institute for European Ethnology):
    Animation and Prototyping: Two Transdisciplinary Tools for Knowledge Exchange with More-than-Human Society
  • Dr. Stefanie Alisch (Institute for Musicology and Media Studies):
    From Reasoning Sessions and Dubdampfer - Sound System Epistemologies networks in Berlin
16:30-17:00 Uhr - Open Networking

 

If you have any questions, please contact the organizers of the Research Lounge at vpfref[at]hu-berlin.de.

 

Past events:

 

Research Lounge "Brasil/Latin America"

Research Lounge 'Artificial Intelligence'

Research Lounge "War and Peace"

Research Lounge "Das Gelbe vom Ei"