Current research activities include

• Urbanisation and its Impact on the Use of Natural Resources in Africa (funded by the VW Foundation)
• Urban Perspectives: Mid-Sized Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (in cooperation with Siemens Stiftung)
• HIV/Aids in Southern Africa: Perception Patterns, Acting Options and Crisis Management (funded by the DFG)
• Urban Coolture - Cool Places, Gentrification and Urban Culture in Hackney (London) (see also "Research Training")
• Der Nürnberg Atlas (The Nuremberg Atlas; a city atlas project, with H. Herbers, the City of Nuremberg and Emons Publishers, Cologne)
• Inner City Management in the Nuremberg-Fuerth-Erlangen conurbation