Research Centers

Scholars from the Department of Socioeconomics are active in the following Faculty research centers (links lead to individual web pages):

The Earth and Society Research Hub (ESRAH) is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Hamburg. It is carried by the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences as well as the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, but also has members from the Faculties of Business Administration, Humanities and Law. 

The ESRAH focuses on the dynamics between society, climate, Earth, and environment. Its main goal is to investigate how we humans influence the Earth system – locally, regionally and globally – and vice versa.

Climate change is a central, but by no means the only challenge that we want to understand and for which we want to find options for action. There are also questions such as: How can natural resources be used sustainably? How can necessary changes be shaped in such a way that they strengthen social solidarity? How can societies become more resilient?

 

The Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS), the former research center of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, has been integrated into ESRAH as well.

 

Hamburg Center for Health Economics

The Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) is an inter-faculty research center run jointly by the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences; the Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School); and the Faculty of Medicine at University of Hamburg. The interdisciplinary HCHE contributes substantially to health economics research in Germany and abroad. Research at the HCHE focuses on financing and health care, economic evaluation, hospitals and doctors, pharmaceutical markets, and public health. The HCHE is also home to the Research Training Group "Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality", which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as structured PhD program in health economics.