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WI Institute of Rural Economics

Dr. Nikolaus Marcellus Gerold


Nikolaus Gerold

Institute of Rural Economics

Bundesallee 63
38116 Braunschweig
Telephone
+49 531 2570 1088
Email
nikolaus.gerold@thuenen.de

Work and research focus

  • Entrepreneurship-as-Practice
  • Gender relations in rural areas
  • Regional and Rural Development

Additional information

  • Since 04/2026   
    Research Associate, Thünen Institute of Rural Economics
  • 05/2022 – 06/2024
    Research Associate, Centre for Nature, Art & Media, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich
  • 01/2018 – 07/2025
    PhD (Doctoral research): Developing selves: youth agency and pedagogies of enterprise in neoliberal India, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne
  • 10/2007 – 07/2013
    Master’s studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology and Religious Studies, Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich
     
  • Since SS 2024 – EthnoLab “Cultural Sensitivity and Creativity in Social Work and Education” (in collabora-tion with Dr. Oeendrila Lahiri Gerold), Catholic Uni-versity of Applied Sciences Munich
  • WS 2023/24 – Research workshop “Contemporary witnesses in Social Work”: conception, implementation and analysis of qualitative expert interviews and focus group discussions (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Annette Eberle), Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich
  • SS 2023 – MediaLab: Diversity & Media Competence (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Annette Eberle), Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich
  • 2021: Faculty of Science Travelling Scholarship, University of Melbourne
  • 2018 – 2023: Australian Government Research Train-ing Program (RTP) Scholarship, University of Melbourne
  • 2018 – 2023: Field research funding (Australian Research Council Discovery Project), Australian Research Council
  • 2018: Rowden White Scholarship, University of Melbourne
  • 2015 – 2016: DAAD PhD One-Year Research Grant
  • 2014: Georg R. Schroubek Young-Researcher Award, LMU München
  • 2012: Kretzenbacher Master stipend, LMU München
     
  • European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
  • Asian Studies Association of Australia 

Publications

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