Profile
Abstract
Cedric Jürgensen studied Liberal Arts and Sciences (Major Governance), Political Sociology, and European Studies at the University of Freiburg, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Leipzig university. During his studies he was a visiting student at Université de Montréal and École normale supérieure (Paris-Ulm).
Since March 2021 he is a PhD candidate in sociology at Leipzig Unviersity and since April 2021 he is associated with the Centre Marc Bloch.Since October 2022 he also works at the Centre for the Study of France and the Francophonie at Leipzig University.
In his PhD project is investigates the impacts of Brexit on the Dover-Calais borderregion.
Professional career
- since 10/2021
PhD Scholarship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes - since 10/2021
PhD Candidate at the Institute of Sociology, Leipzig University - 10/2020 - 12/2021
Pre Doc Award, Leipzig University - 10/2016 - 07/2017
Interships at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Santiago de Chile and the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit in Berlin
Education
- 10/2018 - 10/2020
Master in European Studies (M.A.), Leipzig University - 09/2017 - 09/2018
Master of Political Sociology (M.Sc.), London School of Economics and Political Science - 10/2012 - 09/2016
Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Universität Freiburg
Panel Memberships
- since 03/2032
Member of the board of the Graduate Academy Leipzig - since 10/2022
Speaker of the PhD students' council of Leipzig University
For a long time, the growth of the EU was regarded as a unidirectional process. Brexit, however, has shown that integration can also be reversed. While the consequences of this disintegration process on the macro-level have been much debated, the impacts on the local level have mostly been neglected. This PhD project aims to analyse the local consequences of Brexit on Calais and Dover, which constitute the most important transportation link between the UK and continental Europe. An emphasis is put on spatial effects in the border region and the impacts on the lifeworlds of inhabitants. Methodologically, I plan to conduct an ethnographic study to collect data through interviews and participant observations.