Dr. Carol Ludwig

Contact

University of Saarland
Campus
Bulding C5 3, Room 2.08
D-66123 Saarbrücken

carol.ludwig(at)uni-saarland.de

Dr. Carol Ludwig works as a research assistant within the Junior Professorship of Human Geography with a European focus in the field of European Social Studies. In addition to her teaching activities, including in the Bachelor of European Studies, she heads a project funded by the BMBF: “Social Cartography” (with a value of 478,835.88 euros). The research project is part of the joint project “Mapping and transforming: Interdisciplinary Accesses to City Maps as a Visual Medium of Urban Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1949” (a four-year project with a total value of over 2 million euros).  Dr. Ludwig is both a social geographer and an urban planner (certified by the Royal Town Planning Institute, UK) with practice experience in local and regional government units in the UK and teaching experience as a Lecturer at the Universities of Northumbria and Liverpool, UK. From 2020 to 2023 she worked at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne.  More information about the UrbanMetaMapping project can be found here:  https://urbanmetamapping.uni-bamberg.de/project/sozialkartographie.html.

Dr. Ludwig's research has been published in the following journals, among others: European Spatial Research and Policy, Town Planning Review, Urban Planning, Planning, Practice and Research, and International Journal of Heritage Studies

 

Professional career

  • Since 2023 Research assistant in Human Geography in the Department of European Social Research
  • 2020- 2023 Research assistant/project manager GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.

(Official career break due to child education)

  • Since september 2016 Research Fellow (Honorary) – University of Liverpool, UK.
  • 2014-2016  Lecturer in Town Planning – University of Liverpool, UK.
  • 2013-2014 Lecturer in Town Planning – Northumbria University, UK.
  • 2010-2013  Postgraduate Researcher- Northumbria University, UK.
  • 2009-2010 Principal Planner at Local Development Framework Teams (Stadtbauamt) – Northumberland County Council, UK.
  • 2008-2009  Principal Planner at Blyth Valley Borough Council, UK.
  • 2007-2008  Senior Lead Planner (Projects)  at Blyth Valley Borough Council, UK.
  • 2006-2007  Local Plan Officer at Blyth Valley Borough Council, UK.
  • 2005-2006  Planning Assistant at Blyth Valley Borough Council, UK.

Scientific career

  • 2010-2013  PhD (Town Planning and Heritage Conservation), Northumbria University, UK.
  • 2005-2006  PG Cert (Urban Design), University of Westminster, UK.
  • 2004-2005  MSc (distinction) (Town Planning), University of Newcastle, UK
  • 2001-2004  BSc (hons) (1st) (Geography), University of Newcastle, UK.

Memberships

  • Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
  • Forschungsverbund UrbanMetaMapping
  • Cluster für Europaforschung der Universität des Saarlandes (CEUS)
  • European Urban Research Association (EURA)
  • AESOP  Association of European Schools of Planning

List of publications

You can view a current list of publications here.