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.
 

Upcoming event:

 
The fifth Research Lounge will take place on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from 2 to 5 p.m. on the topic of "Participatory Approaches in Research”, this time at the Central Institute "Centre for Cultural Techniques" (ZfK) on Campus North. Organized by the team of the Vice President Research in cooperation with the "HU Office for Knowledge Exchange with Society”, researchers from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and its partner institutions are invited to network at this Research Lounge.

 

📝 Please register by filling out this form.

 

 

Knowledge exchange with society is becoming an increasingly important part of knowledge production in research through participatory and transdisciplinary approaches. While these approaches are standard in some research areas, such as sustainability and innovation research, there is less experience and exchange in other areas. Among other research methods, participatory and transdisciplinary research methods are seen as a particularly good way to contribute innovative solutions to current societal challenges. To this end, cooperation with citizens, organised civil society, culture or politics can open up new research topics and strengthen trust in science through their active participation.
There are many definitions, methods and experiences of participatory approaches to research, as well as a wide variety of actors and forms of participation.
The Research Lounge "Participatory Approaches in Research" therefore aims to promote scientific exchange and networking in this area and to highlight the diversity of current research activities and examples of success at Humboldt-Universität.
 

Programme

 

14:00 Uhr - Welcome

 

  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider (Vice President for Research)
  • 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
 
Registration is requested: register for the Research Lounge here.
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"