For the third time, the Office of Educational Innovation and University Didactics is organising a joint lecture series on the topic of sustainability together with Prof. Dr. René Fahr 's department in the winter semester 2024/25. The lecture series is entitled "UPB for Future" and is aimed at students of all disciplines and study phases, employees and the interested public. The ecological, social and economic dimensions of sustainability are addressed and discussed in weekly lectures.
The scientific community is more unanimous than ever before: Rapid and effective climate protection is necessary to defuse the unprecedented threat to (human) livelihoods that the climate crisis undoubtedly represents. Nevertheless, we are not taking action. How can this phenomenon be explained from a psychological perspective? Why does the climate crisis trigger fear and despair in some people, while others successfully suppress it? How can commitment and acceptance for climate protection be increased?
About the person: Prof Dr Stephan Heinzel
Short CV: since 2023: Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Institute of Psychology, TU Dortmund University; 2016-2023: Junior Professor, Clinical Psychology, FU Berlin; 2013-2016: Post-doc at the University of Potsdam and HU Berlin; 2014: Licence to practice Psychol. Psychotherapist, HU Berlin; 2013: PhD, HU Berlin; 2008: Diploma in Psychology, LMU Munich.
Points of contact with sustainability: Founding member of the research network "Research for Planetary Health and Transformative Change". Since 2021: Research on climate emotions, climate cognitions ("climate protection excuses"), interventions (climate education, resilient climate engagement); Since 2024: Head of the research cluster of the DGPs' Human-Climate-Sustainability Interest Group.
