About

Jacob Heuser studied geography in the Bachelor's program at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and the Master's program Global Change-Regional Sustainability at the University of Innsbruck. He focused his master studies on natural hazards research on the one hand and on issues of spatial research and regional development on the other hand, with a special focus on the topics of housing as well as agro-food studies. In his master thesis he deepened the latter point in the context of an analysis of the food supply of a high alpine alpine club hut, against the background of a critical examination of the "regionality of food" as well as the links into the current corporate food regime.  In his dissertation, he devotes himself to new topics and, using practice-theoretical approaches to places, investigates the emergence and spread of new forms of work in rural areas of the Alps as well as in central and eastern Germany.

Education and career

• Since 03/2023: Research Assistant at the Chair of Human Geography, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

• 01/2022-03/2023: University assistant in the Working Group on Development and Sustainability Research (AGEF) at the Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck.

• Since 10/2021: Teaching activities in the bachelor program Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck 

• Since 10/2020: PhD student in the Working Group on Development and Sustainability Research (AGEF) at the Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck

• 10/2020-05/2022: Project coordinator and research assistant in the research project "Creative Approaches for social-ecological Tranistions" (CRAFT), Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck

• 12/2018-09/2020: Research assistant in the research project "Sustainability Analysis of high-mountain hut Taschachhaus" (HIGHT), Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck in collaboration with DAV Sektion München.

• 05-09/2018: Research assistant in the research project "Future of mobility in protected mountain valleys" (Zumobe), Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck.

• 10/2017-09/2020: Master studies "Global Change-Regional Sustainability" at the University of Innsbruck.

• 10/2012-08/2016: Bachelor studies in geography at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

   

Research interests: topics

• Practice-theoretical research of new forms of work in rural areas
• Critical land research
• Post-growth geographies
• Sustainability and socio-ecological transformation research

Research interests: topics

• Central Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany)

Selected publications