Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Gruber
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Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Gruber
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck
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I am a human geographer specialising in population geography, spatial development and spatial governance (urban and regional development, spatial planning). My research interests are demographic processes and their spatial effects, with a particular focus on im/mobilities and their implications in different spaces (in-migration and out-migration, multilocality, demographic change). I am specifically interested in processes in peripheral and rural areas and possibilities of spatial governance to react to them (regional development, revitalisation, spatial planning). I studied geography at the University of Vienna, specialising in Theoretical and Applied Geography (focus on Regional Development and Population Geography), as well as Spatial Research and Spatial Planning. I completed my PhD at the University of Vienna in 2017. Afterwards, I conducted research in various projects at the University of Vienna and at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. After a research stay as a scholarship holder at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institute of Geography, Research Group Regional Development), I have been working as a university assistant at the University of Innsbruck since 2023.
By appointment (by email). Consultation hours usually take place in my office on the 7th floor, also online on request or if necessary
Population geography (esp. (internal) migration and im/mobilites)
Spatial effects of demographic change
Spatial development processes (regional governance, spatial planning, regional development)
Housing markets, especially in small and medium-sized towns
07/2025-07/2027 INDUST: INDUST “Individualising urbanisation stages: Analysing migration sequences and socio-demographic influences” (PI, Funded by the ÖAW)
09/2023-09/2024 BEST Bedarfsstudie Wohnen (Co-PI, Research collaboration Federal State of Tyrol)
03/2022-02/2025 GoRegion. Die Gestaltungs- und Steuerungsrolle des Bundes für die regionale Handlungsebene (Regional Governance) in Österreich (Funded by Dafne)
06/2022-09/2023 Generation 'I'mmobile? Immobility aspirations of young adults and their socio-spatial implications (PI, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship)
10/2021-05/2022 Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for residential decision-making of students and young academics in Vienna City of Vienna (PI, Funded by the City of Vienna, MA7)
08/2021-03/2022 Digital Transformation in Rural Areas: socio-spatial effects of Coworking Spaces (PI, Funded by the Kaiserschild Foundation)
02/2020-01/2021 Student Housing in Vienna: from a basic requirement towards a lifestyle object (PI together with Yvonne Franz, Funded by Hochschuljubiläumsfond)
01/2017-06/2019 YOUMIG: Improving institutional capacities and fostering cooperation to tackle the impacts of transnational youth migration (Funded by Interreg Danube Transnational Programme)
10/2012-12/2014 ACTIVE AGEING (Funded by Interreg ETC AT-HU 2007-2013)
11/2010-09/2013 SEGI – Indicators and Perspectives for Services of General Interest in Territorial Cohesion and Development, (Funded by the Espon Programme)
AK Housing Markets in Small Towns (working group of the ARL, Academy for Spatial Development of the Leibniz Association)
Humboldt Cities Network (Humboldt Alumni Network Initiative)
AK Ländlicher Raum (working group of the German Society for Geography)