Valentin Sagvosdkin

M.A.

Research Assistant (Teaching and Research), HTW Berlin
Focus fields:
Buildings & Heating
Contact me for:
Cooperations with companies Cooperations for scientists Lectures

Short description

Valentin Sagvosdkin has been a research assistant at HTW Berlin since November 2022 and is pursuing his Ph.D. at the European University of Flensburg on sustainability narratives, with a focus on sufficiency in the areas of industrial policy, the heating transition, housing policy, and leading media outlets. Other topics of his research to date have included pluralistic economics in business journalism and transformation processes in companies oriented toward the common good. He is a member of the works council at Humanistic Management Practices gGmbH (HMP), a member of the Pluralistic Economics Network, and a research fellow at the University of Social Design (hfgg). He is also an author of educational materials for economics (in schools) and a freelance education consultant.

Research data

Academic degree
PhD candidate
Department
Economics, Climate protection & Resources
Research topic

Narratives, Sustainability, Sufficiency, Post-Growth, Media Research, Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research

Research institute
Europa-Universität Flensburg
Location of the research institute
Flensburg
Department/Faculty
Energy and Environmental Management

Career

Education
M.A. Economics (Grade: 1,1; Master's-Thesis: 1,0), University of Social Design, 2016-2019
B.A. Social Work (Grade: 1,1; Bachelor's-Thesis: 1,0), Alice-Salomon University, 2013-2016
Experience
Dialogue & Participation in the Context of Sustainability (e-fect) (1.10.2019 - 31.1.2020)
Research on Pluralist Economics in Business Journalism & the Development of Teaching Materials (OBS + Wochenschau-Verlag) (1.2.2020 - 31.1.2023)
Research Assistant (Field: Impact), hfgg Koblenz (1.4.2020 - 31.3.2023)
Research Assistant (Teaching and Research), HTW Berlin (1.11.2022 - 31.10.2026)

Publications and projects

Selected publications
Sagvosdkin, Valentin; Lukas Bäuerle, Josephine Semb, Barbara Praetorius (2026): To build or not to build? Sustainability narratives between growth-oriented ‘Eco-Markets’ and regulative ‘Sufficiency’ in Germany's heat transition. Energy Research & Social Science. (Link to publication)
Sagvosdkin, Valentin (2026): Recession or rescue? An analysis of degrowth- and counter-narratives in leading British and German media. Futures. (Link to publication)
Sagvosdkin, Valentin (2021): Qualifiziert für die Zukunft? Zur Pluralität der wirtschaftsjournalistischen Ausbildung in Deutschland. Arbeitsheft Nr. 104 der Otto-Brenner-Stiftung. (Link to publication)
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