Urban and Regional Sociology (Acting professorship)

Prof. Dr. Gala Nettelbladt

Gala Nettelbladt is a sociologist and visiting professor of Urban and Regional Sociology at HafenCity University 澳门现金网_澳门赌博现金网-官网. With a dual background in sociology and urban planning, her research broadly centres on socio-political conflicts, negotiations and processes of marginalisation in cities. Specifically, she critically examines the role of civil society, planning and the state in navigating today’s multiple crises, such as the rise of the far right and the climate crisis.

In her doctoral work, she traced the normalisation of far-right contestations in participatory processes and local bureaucracies, working at the intersection of political sociology and planning theory. This work was awarded the AESOP Young Academics Best Paper Award. Gala Nettelbladt’s current research delves into concerns about urban socio-ecological transformations. This strand of work includes research on the local implications of Germany’s coal exit and comparative work (UK, Germany) on the controversies and entanglements between water scarcity and housing provision. This work is situated between literatures on political sociology, planning, urban political ecology and critical urban theory.

She completed her doctorate in Sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Urban Design from the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL), and a Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from King’s College London and Sciences Po Paris. Her research has been supported, among others, by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She is a co-editor of the editorial collective for sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung: www.zeitschrift-suburban.de.

Research interests

  • Urban &regional sociology
  • Socio-ecological transformations: infrastructure, water, housing
  • Local responses to the far right
  • Participation &?urban governance
  • SP-B-204-100 Stadt- & Regionalsoziologie
  • SP-B-MOD-202 Quartiersentwicklung und Sozialforschung
  • SP-B-Mod-401 Wasser für wen? Handlungsans?tze für die Zukunft des Wassers in Berlin
  • SP-M-308-104 Participation, Power, Planning

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

seit 04/2025: Vertretungsprofessur Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie, HafenCity Universit?t 澳门现金网_澳门赌博现金网-官网

01/ – 03/2025: Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy

04/2024 – jetzt: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc), Bauhaus-Universit?t Weimar, Institut für Europ?ische Urbanistik (beurlaubt)

03/2022 – 03/2024: Wissenschaftliche Projektleiterin, Kompetenzzentrum für Regionalentwicklung, Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt, und Raumforschung (BBSR), Referat ?Transformation“

2023: Lehrbeauftragte, Brandenburgische Technische Universit?t (BTU),?FG Raumbezogene Transformations- und Sozialforschung

01/2018 – 04/2022: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogen Sozialforschung (IRS)

03/2016 – 09/2017: Forschungsassistentin, Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett, (UCL)

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Ausbildung

2023: Promotion zur Dr. phil. im Fach Soziologie (summa cum laude), Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin

2019: RC21-IJURR Doctoral School in Comparative Urban Studies, Delhi

2017: Master of Research im Fach Interdisciplinary Urban Design (Distinction), The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL

2015: Bachelor of Arts im Fach European Studies, King’s College London (KCL)

2014: L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Erasmus

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Mitgliedschaften

2021 – jetzt: Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)

2019 – jetzt: RC21 of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

Herausgeber:innenschaften

  • 2023. Autorit?rer Urbanismus. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. 11(3/4). mit Daniela Zupan & Kristine Beurskens.?
  • 2021. digital war besser: Schwerpunkt zu Stadt und Digitalisierung. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. 9(1/2). mit Justin Kadi.

Artikel (begutachtet)

Buchkapitel

Verschiedenes

Daria Dobeslaw, studentische Tutorin, daria.dobeslaw(at)hcu-hamburg.de

Contact & Information

Kontaktinformationen

Prof. Dr. Gala Nettelbladt
gala.nettelbladt(at)hcu-hamburg.de

Raum 5.010
Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1
20457 澳门现金网_澳门赌博现金网-官网

Consultation hours

By appointment.