Laura Siebert
Laura Siebert is a PhD researcher exploring just urban transitions in the transport sector. Her research is situated in the UK and South Africa, bridging questions of climate and mobility justice. She is a Cambridge Trust scholar and is jointly supervised at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge.
Email: [email protected]
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Location:
- Cambridge
- Background
Laura is an urban geographer who completed her undergraduate and master’s degree at the University of Münster. For over three years she worked as a research assistant in Münster’s Urban Geography research group. Her master’s thesis examined community responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting everyday social infrastructures often overlooked by mainstream crisis management. She co-taught a seminar on urban health, gender and care for medical students at Justus Liebig University Giessen. She has worked with the German development agency GIZ in Bonn and Windhoek, Namibia, on decentralised governance and housing for low-income groups.
Across her work on urban health, housing, and governance, Laura has been drawn to questions of infrastructure provision, power, access and care. Her doctoral research examines the relationship between sustainability and affluence, asking how green interventions can unintentionally reproduce and excacerbate socio-spatial inequalities. Bringing cities in the UK and South Africa into conversation, she explores who benefits from urban climate initiatives and who is left out. Her work draws on feminist and decolonial approaches and ethnographic methods.
- Spoken Languages
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- English
- German
- Research interests
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- Climate urbanism
- Just urban transitions
- Mobility justice
- Feminist and decolonial epistemologies
- Participatory and collaborative research
- Qualifications
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- MSc Human Geography, University of Münster, Germany
- BA Geography and Social Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany
- Recent presentations and conferences
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Siebert, L. & Bernstein, H.E. (2024). Lessons from the Pandemic for Socially Just Approaches to Health [Paper presentation]. Exploring International Pandemic Responses through a Social Science Lens University of Toronto, Canada.
Siebert, L. (2024). The Caring City? Collaborative Research in Bochum’s Hustadt in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic [Paper presentation, in German]. Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie, University of Münster, Germany.
Siebert, L. (2024). Hustadt during the COVID-19 Pandemic [Presentation, in German]. Town hall meeting with city officials and civil society organisations, City of Bochum, Germany.
- Media experience
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Blog article: Bernstein, H. & Siebert, L. (2024). Tandem Interviews: Collaborative Research Insights from Bochum and Giessen. SMAPL – Social Mobilization as Policymaking Lever?