Current Courses
Below you will find courses offered by lecturers of the professorship for the current semester – it is given an overview of concrete contents and goals of our teaching. University members can get further information on these courses, e.g. locations and times or application, attendance and examination modalities, in the teaching organisation system myStudy.
Current Courses
Prof. Dr. David Abson
Resilience of Ecosystems & Social-Ecological Systems
The course will draw on multiple perspectives on resilience from the natural and social sciences, and places a particular emphasis on the conceptualization and assessment of resilience with social-ecological systems.
Ziel: By the end of the course you should have:
Developed an understanding of the various ways of conceptualizing, assessing and measuring resilience, their underpinning assumptions, strengths and weaknesses and applicability to different types of systems.
Colloquium Social-ecological system research
Das Kolloquium wird inhaltlich verschiedene Methoden, Ansätze und Ergebnisse sozial-ökologischer Forschung behandeln und unterschiedliche Formate anbieten: Studierende präsentieren ihre Forschungsvorhaben und/ oder Ergebnisse, die dann mit den Betreuuenden und anderen Forschern diskutiert werden können
Ziel: Ziel der Veranstaltung ist ein Austausch zwischen den Forschenden und Promovierenden, aber auch eine Präsentation des Promotionsvorhabens und eine Reflexion über die Fortschritte der Promotion
Masterforum SEBS
This is the Master Forum for SEBS students. It consists of sessions in class, with alternating presence of the two lecturers. During these two sessions we will be discussing the exposes that have been uploaded to MyStudy.
The first session will be on Wed 29th April 2026 from14.15 to 17.45in 11 320 with Vicky Temperton, and the second on on Wed 10th June 2026, also from 12.15 until 17.45, with Dave Abson in C7 019.
Between these dates students are expected to make appointments with their direct supervisors to discuss their thesis ideas and plans.
Ziel: The Master Forum provides students with a framing for their Master thesis project, within which reflection takes place on the goals and aims of the work, how to convey them effectively and the extent to which the questions one is asking can be answered within the project.
Further information about courses you will find the academic portal myStudy.