Profile

Franziska Imhoff studied Cultural Economics at the University of Passau. She complemented her subsequent master's degree in tourism and sustainable regional development at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt by studying tourism geography at the University of Oulu (Finland). In her master's thesis, Franziska Imhoff examined actor-based regional development strategies from a praxeological perspective. In particular, she dealt with the concept of "affective spaces".

As a research assistant, Franziska Imhoff is active in the research project "DIYhoch3 - Youth Cultural Self-Organization in the Border Triangle of Bavaria-Saxony-Thuringia", which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. She is concerned with practices of cultural self-organization of young people as well as with public funding practices of youth cultural projects in structurally weak rural areas.

Research interests

• Geographies of rural areas
• Sustainable regional development 
• Tourism Geography 
• Qualitative social research in geography

Education and career

• Since 03/2023: Research associate at the Chair of Economic Geography, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.
• 01/2021- 03/2023: Master of Tourism Geography at the University of Oulu (Finland)
• 10/2020 - 03/2023: Master Tourism and Sustainable Regional Development at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany).
• 10/2016 - 06/2020: Bachelor Cultural Economics - International Cultural and Business Studies at the University of Passau.

Ongoing research projects

• "DIYhoch3 - Youth cultural self-organization in the border triangle of Bavaria-Saxony-Thuringia" in cooperation with the Chair of Social Pedagogy at the University of Bamberg