Christoph Schimmel
PhD Candidate, Researcher
The main question that guides my research is what kind of sociospatial strategies and practices shape the way of how social (and digital) inequalities are being produced and reproduced. With reference to my PhD project, I mainly consider sociospatial relations within the academic system of knowledge production and the academic publishing industry.
Contact
Consultation
Phone
Fax: +43-512-507-54199
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Platforms & Social Media
Research Foci
Regional
South and Southeast Asia
(India, Cambodia)
Thematic
Digital Geographies
Open Science / Open Access
Digital and Social Inequalities
Concepts & Theories
Sociospatial relations
critical theory
urban informality
Methods
Qualitative social research
quantitative methods
social network analysis
value chain analysis
Academic Career
Positions:
2019 – present → PhD Candidate / Researcher at the Institute of Geography, Innsbruck University
2016 – 2019 → Project Coordinator at the Freie Universität Berlin, Center for Digital Systems, “Open Encyclopedia System”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2014 – 2016 → Technical Consultant at the Center for Digital Systems, Freie Universität Berlin
2011 – 2015 → M. Sc. Geographical Development Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2007 – 2011 → B. A. Cultural Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Degrees:
2015 → Master of Science (“Geography”), Free University Berlin;
Title of thesis: “Urbane Informalität am Beispiel des Straßenhandels in Phnom Penh, Kambodscha”
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2011 → Bachelor of Arts, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed):
Schimmel, C. (2023): Exploring Networks of Scholar-Led Publishing Initiatives with a Social Network Analysis of the Radical Open Access Collective. In: Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 121-151. (DOI: 10.3138/jsp-2022-0048)
Contributions to Volumes:
Schimmel, C. (2021): Soziale Netzwerkanalyse. In: Bork-Hüffer, Tabea; Füller, Henning; Straube, Till (Hrsg.): Handbuch Digitale Geographien: Welt – Wissen – Werkzeuge. Bern, Stuttgart, Wien: UTB Hauptverlag., ISBN 978-3-8252-5567-1, S. 303 – 315. (DOI: 10.36198/9783838555676)
Apostolopoulos, N./ Schimmel, C. & I. Egilmez (2017): Open Encyclopedia System. Open Source Software for Open Access Encyclopedias. In: M. Gäde/V. Trkulja/V. Petras (Eds.): Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same? Understanding Information Spaces. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium for Information Science (ISI 2017), Berlin, 13th-15th March 2017- Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, pp. 380-385.
Apostolopoulos, N./ Egilmez, I. & C. Schimmel (2016): Open Encyclopedia System – Open-Source-Plattform für Open Access Online-Enzyklopädien. In: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin (Eds.): Open in Action in Berlin-Brandenburg. Open-Access-Projekte wissenschaftlicher Einrichtungen aus Berlin und Brandenburg 2016, Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, pp. 22-23. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-5832
Other Publications:
Schimmel, C. (2021): Reinterpreting knowledge commons and sociospatial strategies of community-led publishing in times of transition. IASC 2021 Knowledge Commons. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5817381
Schimmel, C. (2017): Open Encyclopedia System – Open Source Platform for Open Access Encyclopedias. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Membership Meeting, Fall 2017, December 12 2017 Washington, DC. Project briefing (Link to presentation: PDF).
Blogs:
Schimmel, C. (2019): Why does a geographical perspective on Open Access matter? In: Transient Spaces Blog, 15.01.2020, (Link). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.34834/2019.0008
Schimmel, C. (2016): Online-Enzyklopädien: Starterhilfe. In: Freie Universität Berlin: E-Learning & E-Teaching Blog. Ideenbar zu digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre, 29.04.2016, (Link).
Schimmel, C. (2016): Online-Enzyklopädien in der Praxis II. In: Freie Universität Berlin: E-Learning & E-Teaching Blog. Ideenbar zu digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre, 27.04.2016, (Link).
Schimmel, C. (2016): Online-Enzyklopädien in der Praxis I. In: Freie Universität Berlin: E-Learning & E-Teaching Blog. Ideenbar zu digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre, 22.04.2016, (Link).
Schimmel, C. (2016): Online-Enzyklopädien im Überblick. In: Freie Universität Berlin: E-Learning & E-Teaching Blog. Ideenbar zu digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre, 15.04.2016, (Link).
About Me
My main interest as a geographer is how (social and digital) inequalities are being produced and reproduced. To begin with an analysis of the system of academic knowledge production seems to be a good starting point to investigate global power relations and its consequences for global society. I am focussing on qualitatively-driven mixed methods in order to combine the best of the two worlds and try to create a whole picture of my object of research.
Before I started to do my PhD, I was coordinator of the DFG project “Open Encyclopedia System” at the Freie Universität Berlin from 2016 to 2019. During my masters I did field research in Varanasi, India (funded by PROMOS – DAAD) and Phnom Penh, Cambodia (funded by the Humboldt-Ritter-Penck-Stiftung). I studied at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Berlin (Freie Universität) and received my Master’s degree from the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Research Group Transient Spaces & Societies
Geographisches Institut Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
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