Susanne Dyhr, MA
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Susanne Dyhr has been a research assistant at the Centre for Structural Change and Regional Development (ZeStuR), Cluster 5 – ‘Conflicts over Democracy and Migration’ – since August 2026.
Having graduated with a diploma in social work from the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin, with practical experience in community work and further training as a mediator and democracy adviser, she has both a practical and theoretical understanding of participatory approaches and democratic conflict resolution. During her Master’s degree in Sociocultural Studies at the European University Viadrina, she engaged with critical migration studies and urban studies. At the BTU, she developed an action plan to counter (far-right) influence at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg in collaboration with Prof. Dr Heike Radvan and has been working at the BTU as part of this action plan since August 2024. Her research focuses on democracy education, the prevention of right-wing extremism, research on eastern Germany, and critical perspectives on knowledge production.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in the field of spatial sociology on the topic ‘Nostalgia – between loss and reorientation: connections between subjectification and the refiguration of post-socialist urban spaces in East Germany’ (working title).