Wiegand Körber, M. A.
Publications
Eyes on the Data - How the methodology of the 2030 Agenda contributes to its probable failure. World Development Sustainability, Vol. 5, December 2024. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100188
Editorial: Neue Herausforderungen für die Asienforschung (with Carmen Brandt). Special Issue, ASIEN - The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 170/171, August 2025, p. 7-12. 10.11588/ASIEN.2024.170/171.28349
Editor (with Carmen Brandt): Neue Herausforderungen für die Asienforschung. Special Issue, ASIEN - The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 170/171, August 2025. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/asien/issue/view/1666
Short vita
PhD student at the Institute of Political Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with Prof Petra Dobner. Working title of the dissertation: ‘Better Data, Better Lives’ - Deconstructing modes of data-driven governance.
Since 09/2023: Research assistant at the Chair of Government Studies and Policy Research
01/2020-05/2023: Research Associate, DFG project WIDPAL: Water Indicators in Domestic Politics and Law. The use of SDG indicators for water-related goals as an instrument of domestic political and legal disputes. More about the research project: https://systemanalyse.politik.uni-halle.de/systemanalyse/forschungsprojekte/widpal/?lang=en
10/2017-12/2019: Masters programme in Political Science and South Asian Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Working areas and research interests
Data-driven governance, Governing by Numbers
Water, climate and conflict in the Anthropocene
Politics, society and culture of South Asia
Networks
Vice-Chairman of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA): https://asienforschung.de/
Member of the network of scholarship holders of the Saxony-Anhalt State Graduate Funding Program: https://blogs.urz.uni-halle.de/netzwerkgraduiertenfoerderung/
Member of the Taskforce on the Sustainable Development Group by Earth System Governance Project: https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/research/taskforce-on-the-sustainable-development-goals/
Former member of spokespersons' group of the Young Scholars’ Group (YSG), German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
Lectures
Winter semester 2025/2026
Course: Introduction to Government Studies and Policy Research
Summer semester 2025
Who rules the city? Local Politics - a Participant Observation (BA Advanced Modul: Government Studies and Policy Research)
Feminist Theory and Practice, with Annabell Ringwald (Selected Questions in Political Science)
Winter semester 2024/2025
Course: Introduction to Government Studies and Policy Research
Summer semester 2024
The Rule of Experts – On the Influence of Science on Political Decision-Making (BA Advanced Module: Government Studies and Policy Research)
Winter semester 2023/2024
Crisis! Krisis! Crisis! Crise! – Political Science Perspectives on 'Situations Representing the Peak of a Perceived Dangerous Development' (BA Advanced Module: Government Studies and Policy Research)
Summer semester 2023
Beyond Ideology and Responsibility: Governing by Numbers (BA Advanced Module: Government Studies and Policy Research)
The NSA Investigation Committee (BA Advanced Module: Government Studies and Policy Research)
Winter semester 2022/2023
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Reading Seminar (BA Advanced Module: Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics)
Summer semester 2022
War Experiences - on the Psychosocial Aspects of a Political Instrument (BA Advanced Module Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics)
Winter semester 2021/2022
China and the Uyghurs (BA Advanced Module Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics)
Summer semester 2021
Politics and Economics with Alexander Kubis (BA Advanced Module Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics)
Winter semester 2020/2021
A path through the Anthropocene? On the Genesis, Methodology and Critique of the SDGs (BA Advanced Module Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics)
Summer semester 2020
Protecting the Climate Internationally. Possibilities and limits on the example of the Republic of India (BA Advanced Module Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics)