Dr. Cosima Werner | Human Geography | Best Researcher Award

Research Associate at Kiel University,  Germany

Dr. Cosima Werner is a Research Associate at the Institute of Geography, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. Her research explores cultural geography with a focus on social spaces and urban processes. She earned her Ph.D. at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, investigating convenience stores as social spaces in deprived U.S. neighborhoods. With experience in teaching, field research, and academic collaborations across continents, Dr. Werner contributes to advancing urban and cultural geography. She has received multiple scholarships and funding, including support for her current habilitation project, which examines the formation of leisure groups in Germany.

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Education 🎓

Ph.D. in Geography, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (2016-2021).  M.A. in Cultural Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2011-2015).  B.A. in Sociology, Georg-August-University Göttingen (2009-2011).  B.Sc. in Geography, Georg-August-University Göttingen (2007-2011).  Exchange Program, Minnesota State University Mankato (2012-2013)

Experience 💼

Research Associate, Institute of Geography, CAU Kiel (Since 2021).  Research Associate, Graduate Academy, Heidelberg University (2016-2020).  Lecturer and Field Researcher, Heidelberg University (2015-2016).  Field Researcher in Detroit, Chicago, and Jakarta (2013-2018)

Awards and Honors 🏅

Funding for Female Researchers, CAU Kiel (2023). Graduate Academy Funding, CAU Kiel (2024).  Kurt-Hiele-Stiftung Travel Scholarship (2016-2020).  DAAD PROMOS Travel Scholarship (2012).  Anke-Reese Scholarship, Jakarta Internship (2013)

Research Focus 🔬

Social spaces and cultural geography. Urban shrinkage and mobility challenges. Convenience stores as social spaces in deprived neighborhoods. Urban farming practices and food systems.  Critical whiteness and leisure group formation in Germany

Conclusion

Publication

 

• “Wir sind eine Familie” – Identitätsnarrative in der Brettspiel-Community
  Year: 2025 (expected)
  Author: Werner, C.

 

• Trust and social space – a relational perspective
  Year: 2024
  Author: Werner, C.

 

• Book review: Von Dinosauriern bis zur Wirtschaftsgeographie: Vielfalt der postkolonialen Geographie
  Year: 2024
  Author: Werner, C.

 

• Give qualitative research the recognition it deserves
  Year: 2024
  Author: Bercht, A. L.; Sandner Le Gall, V.; Straub, J.; Höffler, T. N.; Bopp, J.; Carstensen-Egwuom, I.; Chavez-Rodriguez, L.; Dittmer, C.; Dünckmann, F.; Eitel, K.; Elster, C.; Hathat, Z.-E.; Hein, J.; Klepp, S.; Lorenz, D. F.; Martin, R.; Otto, L.; Sarnow, M.; Voss, M.; Wehrhahn, R.; Weißermel, S.; Werner, C.

 

• Grundlagen, Strategien und Techniken der Anonymisierung von Transkripten in der qualitativen Forschung: eine praxisorientierte Einführung
  Year: 2023
  Authors: Werner, C.; Meyer, F.; Bischof, S.

 

• Convenience Stores as Social Spaces – Trust and Relations in Deprived Neighborhoods in the U.S.
  Year: 2023
  Author: Werner, C.

 

• Lebensmittelwüsten im reichsten Land der Welt. Sozio-räumliche Disparitäten in der amerikanischen Lebensmittelversorgung
  Year: 2023 (published in 2021)
  Author: Werner, C.

 

• Trust and the City. Analyzing Trust from a Socio-Spatial Perspective
  Year: 2021
  Authors: Gerhard, U.; Keller, J.; Werner, C.

 

• Vom Absetzen theoretischer Brillen und der Öffnung des eigenen Blicks – Reflexionen über praxeologische Methodologien
  Year: 2019
  Authors: Geiselhardt, K.; Hoppe-Seyler, A.; Werner, C.

 

• Soziale Praktiken in der Forschungspraxis – Empirisch forschen mit Schatzkis site ontology
  Year: 2019
  Authors: Wenzl, C.; Werner, C.; Molitor, K.; Hornung, M.; Faller, F.; Rominger, S.

 

• Methodische Herangehensweise an soziologische Kapitalsorten für die Darstellung im sozialen Raum
  Year: 2018
  Author: Werner, C.

 

• Convenience Stores als Soziale Orte im US-amerikanischen Ghetto – Ein ethnographischer Feldbericht
  Year: 2017
  Author: Werner, C.