Society-Environment Research Group

Welcome! The research group will start in January 2025. Stay tuned for updates!

Our team

…will be announced soon!

Our research

…will be explained soon!

Our research projects

DFG-AHRC
Networked through Sound: Listening to 20th Century Wildlife Sound Archives
In the twentieth century, wildlife sound archives emerged as new sites of specialist scientific data sets, primarily as repositories of recordings for bioacoustics research and as reference libraries for the identification of species by scientific taxonomists and wildlife enthusiasts. »Networked through Sound« investigates the emergence of a network of seven wildlife sound archives initiated in the mid 20th century across Europe and South Africa. The primary objective of the project is to understand how this network of archives, and the sound recordings they are composed of, are produced and consumed across different social and cultural contexts.

Our progress

Congratulations to Professor Dr Sandra Jasper, starting in 2025 as Chair in Cultural Geography and Society-Environment Research, who has been awarded a major new €650k research grant from UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemein...