Gala Nettelbladt

Gala Nettelbladt is an interdisciplinary urban scholar, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute for European Urban Studies. With a background in Social Sciences and Urban Planning, her research broadly centres on socio-political conflicts and negotiations in cities, critically examining the role of civil society, planning and state authorities in navigating today’s multiple crises, such as the rise of the far right and climate change. She is currently developing work on the contentious politics of planning for water scarcity.

She holds a PhD in Urban Sociology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, an MRes in Interdisciplinary Urban Design from the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL) and a BA in European Studies from King’s College London and Sciences Po Paris. Her research has been funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the DAAD, among others.

Gala is part of the editorial collective s u b \ u r b a n, zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung

Research interests:

  • Local responses to the rise of the far right
  • Socio-ecological transitions: Infrastructure, water
  • Participation in urban and regional planning
  • Planning theory, democratic theory
  • Urban governance

VITA

Qualifications

01/2019 – 04/2023

Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
PhD in Urban Sociology, summa cum laude

09/2019 RC21-IJURR Doctoral School in Comparative Urban Studies, Delhi
09/2016 – 09/2017

The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL)
Master of Research im Fach Inter-disciplinary Urban Design, Distinction

10/2011 – 07/2015 

Department of European and Int. Studies, King’s College London (KCL) 
Bachelor of Arts im Fach European Studies, First Class Honours

09/2013 – 06/2014

L'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
Erasmus

                           

Career

05/2024 - present

Bauhaus University Weimar, Institute for European Urban Studies
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer

03/2022 – 03/2024 

Kompetenzzentrum für Regionalentwicklung, Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt-, und Raumforschung (BBSR)
Research Officer

2023Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus – Senftenberg
Teaching Associate at the Department of Spatial Transformation and Social Research
2021 – jetztsub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 
(Open-access journal, funded by the DFG)
Member of the editorial collective
01/2018 – 04/2022 

Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS)
Research Associate

03/2016 – 09/2017   

Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett (UCL)
Research Assistant

Awards & Scholarships

06/2020 – 12/2022Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
PhD scholarship
2021Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
AESOP Young Academics Best Paper Prize 2021
09/2019 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Scholarship to take part in the ISA-RC21 Conference in Delhi
09/2019International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) Foundation
RC21-IJURR Summer School in Delhi
10/2017   Departmental Award, The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Prize for excellent academic achievements
07/2013 – 09/2017

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Scholarship for outstanding academic talent

09/2014 – 05/2016 Fellowship International Graduate School ‘Kolleg Europa’
German Academic Scholarship Foundation, DAAD, Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung, Working Group ‘The European City as Utopia’
09/2013 – 07/2014European Union
Erasmus scholarship

Memberships

2021 – nowAssociation of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
2020 – now  DFG-Netzwerk Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten
2019 – now RC21 of the of the International Sociology Association (ISA)

PUBLICATIONS

Edited volumes

  • 2023. Autoritärer Urbanismus. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. 11(3/4). with Daniela Zupan & Kristine Beurskens. 
  • 2021. digital war besser: Schwerpunkt zu Stadt und Digitalisierung. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. 9(1/2). with Justin Kadi.

Peer-reviewed articles

Book chapters

Miscellanea