Research projects
Montangeschichte centres around mining, the resources mined and their subsequent processing as well as the relationship between these resources or products made from them and society. The research carried out in Bochum focuses on the business and economic history if the Ruhr area in the second half of the 20th century.
Research projects
- It's complicated! The relationship between the Ruhr's mining industry, the German government and the ECSC's High Authority in the 1950s and 1960s (Principal investigator: Juliane Czierpka)
- De-Industrialisation in the Ruhr area
- Industrial films in lignite mining (Felix Frank)
- The German meat industry in the second half of the 20th century (Philip Kortling)
- FLOH [Forschendes Lernen mit Oral History] Research based learning with Oral History