Current research and projects

Wellbeing in Würzburg

•                    Funding: City of Würzburg         

•                    Duration: 03/2025 - 10/2025 

•                    Contact: Prof. Jürgen Rauh, Nils Karges 

The Main Valley Project: Ecosystem-based solutions for hazard scenarios in the Franconian Main Valley (MainPro)

•                    Funded by: Free State of Bavaria, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts; ERFE

•                    Duration: 05/2023 - 09/2027

•                    Programme management: Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst, Institute of Geography and Geology 

•                    Sub-project leaders: Prof. Dr Jörg Müller, Biocentre; Prof. Dr Jürgen Rauh, Geography, Social Geography;  

•                   Prof. Dr Hannes Taubenböck, Geography, Remote Sensing; Prof. Dr Tobias Ullmann, Geography, Remote Sensing; 

•            Jun-Prof. Dr Julia Meister, Geography, Geoarchaeology and Quaternary Research

Soundscape project

•                    Dissertation project

•                    Duration: 03/2023 - 09/2027

•                    Doctoral candidate: Nils Karges 

•                    Supervisors: Prof. Dr Jürgen Rauh, Prof. Dr Hannes Taubenböck, Prof. Dr Tobias Ullmann

Accessibility in local food supply. A multidimensional conceptualisation, modelling and analysis based on empirical consumer surveys

•                    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)     

•                    Duration: 2021 - 2025 

•                    Contact persons: Prof Jürgen Rauh, Dr Sebastian Rauch

Access to paediatric care in Bavaria (ZukiBa) - a multidimensional mixed-methods analysis

•                    Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Health, Care and Prevention (StMGP)          

•                    Duration: Feb. 2024 - Sep. 2024

•                    Contact person: Dr Sebastian Rauch

Ongoing project collaborations

Cooperation with Würzburg University of Music, Systematic Musicology in the joint project Cultural Education and its Networks.

• Contact persons:Prof Jürgen Rauh, Jacqueline Arndt

Cooperation with the Chair of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry at the University of Würzburg

• Since: 2016
• Contact persons: Prof Jürgen Rauh, Dr Sebastian Rauch

Cooperation on the topic "Accessibility of birth settings for Swiss women of childbearing age" and on the topic "Accessibility of dialysis for older prisoners in Switzerland" with the Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel

• Since: 2018
• Contact person: Dr Sebastian Rauch

Recently completed research and projects

Accessibility analysis of inpatient medical care facilities in Bavaria

• Funding: LGL Bavaria
• Duration: April 2020 - November 2020
• Contact persons: Dr Sebastian Rauch, Prof Jürgen Rauh

Accessibility analyses for basic and local supply in rural areas of Mainfranken for the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt

• Funding: IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt
• Duration: 2018 - 2020
• Contact person: Prof. Jürgen Rauh

Introduction and operation of a self-driving shuttle service in local public transport in Bad Birnbach - accompanying research in the social sub-sector

• Funding: DB Regio Bus, Bavaria region
• Contact persons: Prof Jürgen Rauh, Dr Alexandra Appel
• Duration: 2017 - 2019

Empirical studies on shared mobility in Mainfranken

• Funding: IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt
• Duration: 2016 - 2017
• Contact persons: Prof Jürgen Rauh, Dr Sebastian Rauch

Areas of conflict in inner-city retail in medium-sized centres in Mainfranken

• Funding: IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt
• Duration: since 2014
• Contact: Prof. Jürgen Rauh

Survey for a mobility concept in the district of Deggendorf for Regionalbus Ostbayern GmbH (DB)

• Funding: Regionalbus Ostbyern GmbH (DB)
• Duration: January 2016 - March 2016
• Contact: Dr Sebastian Rauch, Prof. Jürgen Rauh