EU Funding:

What Makes Places Lonely?

In an ERC Consolidator Grant, Maike Luhmann is exploring how places relate to loneliness. She also hopes to find out how loneliness can be combated.

Are there any places where people feel particularly lonely or where they don’t feel lonely at all? Professor Maike Luhmann argues that the relationship between place and loneliness should be described in dynamic terms. What one person finds lonely, another may find inviting. A place that seems desolate to one person on one day may seem completely different on another day or at another time. In her project “Loneliness Across Time And Space” (LOTIS), Luhmann, a professor of psychological methods at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, is putting this dynamic relationship into a new theoretical framework, while incorporating people’s mobility patterns at the same time. The project is funded by the European Research Council ERC with a Consolidator Grant of approximately 2 million euros over five years.

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Research Alliance Ruhr:

27 Professors Already Appointed

The University Alliance Ruhr continues to expand its cutting-edge research in Duisburg-Essen, Bochum, and Dortmund.

The four Research Centers and the College of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) form a new research hub in the Ruhr area. Twenty-seven international top scientists have already chosen a future within the UA Ruhr and thus at one of the three partner universities: Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, or the University of Duisburg-Essen. In total, more than 50 new research professorships are being created within the centers and the college.

Some of the center researchers are part of the new hub: Lucia Melloni, Caspar Schwiedrzik.

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