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Dr. Simon Dudek

Simon Dudek
Dr. Simon Dudek
Research associate
Phone +49 8421 93-21773
E-mail simon.dudek@ku.de
Building Osten 18 | Room: O18-005
Postal Address
Ostenstraße 18
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
by arrangement

Profile

Simon studied political science, geography and philosophy at the University of Bamberg. He has been a research assistant in the Economic Geography working group since 2016. In his doctoral thesis, he conducted an analysis grounded in state theory to reconstruct how spatial planning in Bavaria was reorganised under the premise of austerity following the global financial and economic crisis.

His research centres on a social theory-based spatial research. To this end, he draws on materialist theories of state and space, recognising the production of space as the result of historical dependencies and power relations. From this perspective, he analyses spatial planning at different scales in the broader context of social and economic power structures with the aim of contributing to a more equitable and inclusive approach to spatial planning.

A recent project on the organisation of municipal debt relief in a federal comparison is an example of applied research in this sense.The aim of the endeavour is to add a spatial and qualitative perspective to the existing research on these consolidation programs. Drawing on financialisation research, the project examines the impact of conditional debt relief on small municipalities and critically reflects on its influence on existing spatial disparities.

    

Research interests

  • Spatial planning and regional planning

  • Materialist theories of state and space

  • Financialization
       

Education and career

  • 7/20:
    Appointment to the Scientific Colloquium of the Bavarian Rural Academy
  • 2/20 - 6/24:
    Managing Director of the Steering Group of the Bavarian State Working Group in the ARL
  • since 11/19:
    Appointment as a full member of the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association, LAG Bavaria.
  • since 05/2016:
    Research assistant at the Chair of Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  • 11/2014-03/2016:
    Research assistant at the Chair of Cultural Geography at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
  • 10/2007-04/2014:
    Studied political science, geography and philosophy at the University of Bamberg

Publications & Presentations

Artikel

Buch

Aufsatz in einem Buch

Rezension

Hochschulschrift

Projektbericht, Forschungsbericht, Gutachten

Preprint, Working paper, Diskussionspapier

Online-Beitrag

Veranstaltungsbeitrag (unveröffentlicht)

Sonstiges

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