Matthias Burs, M.A.

Research interests

• Geography of education, regional development, discourse analysis
• Germany, Central Asia

Dissertation project

• Discourses of higher education development and spatial consequences of higher education policy in Germany

Lectures

• Project presentation “Discourse of the higher education development in Germany and its institutional effects”; Conference: Scientific network discourse analysis in human geography, Essen, 25 November 2007
• Lecture: Discoursive change in German higher education policy; Annual meeting WG: Geography of Education, Bad Herrenalb, 25 June 2009

Current courses

• Winter 2009/10: Main excursion Central Asia (Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, together with Prof. Dr. Hans Gebhardt and Dipl.-Geogr. Hendrik Meurs), 27 August – 17 September 2009
• Summer 2009: Excursion Rhön (5 days, together with Julia Rösch)
• Winter 2008/09: Field course: Tuition fees in geography (5 days, together with Leila Mousa, M.A.)