Institute for Economic
Geography and GIScience

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Bachelor's Thesis

General Themes/Topics supervised by staff at the Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience

Social science topic from a spatial perspective or with spatial implications and/or with the use of geographic information technology (GIS) and spatial (business) analytics. Examples include regional economic growth, uneven spatial development, regional economic development, spatial and social polarization, spatial accessibility and connectedness of regions/markets, the role of neighborhood effects, the scope and limits of globalization, etc.

Most of the bachelor thesis will be in form of critical literature reviews, but (conventional) quantitative (and/or GIS-based) data analysis or qualitative case studies are possible.

Bachelor theses can be in English or German.

Specific Topics for Bachelor's Thesis by Jürgen Essletzbichler

Economic geography, urban and regional economics/development
Rising Inequality
Gentrification and social exclusion in cities
Socio-economic changes and the rise of the populist right A project related to a topic in economic geography

Specific Topics for Bachelor Theses by Petra Staufer-Steinnocher

Spatial variation of increasing inequality (literature review and GIS-based analysis focusing on a single country or region)
Changes in the Vienna housing market and social segregation (GIS-based space-time panel analysis)
Marketing in a regional context, geomarketing, spatial business intelligence

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