Short CV
Ansgar Dirschauer is a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the Research Training Group “Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing”. He previously completed a Master’s degree in Geography at the Goethe University Frankfurt (Thesis: Zu den Funktionsweisen von Vermittlungsagenturen und der Expropriation von Arbeit in der transnationalen Bauindustrie) and completed his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Leipzig.
He worked as a student assistant at the Institute for Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt, in the Mobility and Urban Spaces research group at ISOE, at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and at the Institute of Human Geography at Leipzig University.
He was also part of the coordinating group for the Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023.
Research focus
- Homelessness – Welfare state – Housing market
- Migration
- Labour Geography
- Urban Geography
Recent projects
“The Homeless Welfare State: Housing Allocation as the Institutionalized Regulation of a Tension-Laden Property Order”
Taking “Housing First” as my starting point, I examine the relationship between the welfare state, the housing market and homelessness. In doing so, I focus on an analysis of housing allocation, particularly in light of its structural and institutional characteristics, as well as the negotiation processes concerning the selection criteria for participants in this social policy.