Dr Heike Doring
Job Title: Researcher
Institution: Cardiff University
Email: doringh@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: 029 208 70854
Role: Heike is a member of the WISERD local knowledge in context (KLiC) team.
Biography
Heike is originally from a very small, rural, conservative place somewhere in the middle of Continental Europe. By now, she has adapted well to life in a small, urban, less conservative place on the edge of non-Continental Europe. She studied for a M.A. in British Cultural Studies, Economics and Law at the Technical University Dresden and the University of Exeter. She worked as a research assistant at the School of History, Nottingham University and for the National Forest Company before completing a M.Sc. in Social Science Research Methods at Cardiff University. She completed a PhD in Sociology at Cardiff in 2009. Before joining WISERD in 2010 she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cardiff University. She has been active across several schools at Cardiff University.
Research Interests
Heike´s research interests reflect her interdisciplinary training over the years aiming to examine the multiple dimensions of processes of social, economic and cultural change. Her PhD dealt with trajectories of regeneration in English coalfields taking up questions of place, space and class in moments of socio-economic transformation. On the whole, it is questions of the development and redevelopment of places which have steered her forays into historical sociology, political economy and cultural studies – with the aim of finding a way of combining these.
Current Research
Heike is currently working on understanding the changing political, economic and symbolic geographies of Wales. This extends earlier research on the importance of place in socio-economic transformation of old industrial regions. To diversify her research on coal, she is embarking on examining steel. This research also forms part of a collaboration with colleagues at the Universidade Federale de Rio de Janeiro which aims to look at the parallel nature and global linkage of economic development and decline.
Recent Publications
Book Chapters
Doering H, 2011, ‘The Uses of Militancy in Regeneration: Negotiating Deindustrialisation’ in Rethinking Work: Global Historical and Sociological Perspectives Ed(s) R Behal, A Mah, B Fall (Tulika Books, New Dehli) (Available here)
