Prof. Dr. Christian Berndt

Current Research Projects

„Clean Cities, Dirty Work? Geographies of Commercial Cleaning in Frankfurt and Nuernberg“ (Funding WISAG AG; with Peter Latzke)
„Creative Politics“ (Funding: DFG; with Pascal Goeke and Peter Lindner)
„Material Economic Geographies“
„Performing regional (dis-)integration: Transnational markets, mobile commodities and bordered north-south differences“ (with Marc Boeckler)

2007-2008: Creative Industries Report Frankfurt (funded by the City of Frankfurt Economic Development Department (to be updated biannually).
2005-2006: Regional Learning in the Bad Homburg Life Science Sector (In co-operation with the Bad Homburg Economic Development Department).
2002-2003: Processes of identification in a context of territorial and non-territorial spatialities: The example of labor migrants at the Mexico-US-border (DFG).
2001-2002: Regional Venture Capital Policy in Germany and the UK (with Ron Martin, University of Cambridge; Peter Sunley, University of Southampton, Britta Klagge, Universität Hamburg; Stephan Herten, University of Cambridge; funded by the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society).
2000-2002: Intercultural interaction in foreign companies: Case-studies of the negotiation of culture, power and space in Mexico (Funded by the Bavarian State Government through the Research Network Area Studies – FORAREA).