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Timon Beyes, Professor, CBS Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy

Joins the PP cluster Urban Governance.

Timon Beyes, newly appointed Professor of design, innovation and aesthetics at CBS' Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, joins the Urban Governance Cluster.

Before coming to CBS, Timon was a visiting professor at the Institute for the Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany, where he directed a large-scale EU-funded research and development project on digital cultures, as well as associate professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

Timon's research focuses on the spaces and aesthetics of organization, entrepreneurship and innovation with empirical emphases on digital media, the arts and urban space. He has done a range of research and teaching activities as well as public events around the issue of the production, governance and appropriation of urban space. This included a week-long

teaching project for 800 students on the city of the future with the architect Daniel Libeskind in St.Gallen (he has again joined Libeskind for the latter's current online course on the city of the future hosted by Leuphana University Lüneburg's Digital School) and an international symposium on urban artistic interventions that took place at Hamburg's Kampnagel Theatre and brought together artists, researchers and students. In 2008, Timon was a Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University, UK.

Catherine Casler, PhD student, CBS Department of Organization

Joins the PP cluster Shifting Forms of Public Governance.

Catherine Casler is a newly started PhD Fellow in the Department of Organization at CBS. Prior to moving to Denmark, Catherine worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia to study strategic change and adaptation in both the public and private sectors.

The empirical material from this project is one point of departure for her current PhD research which is principally concerned with how strategy is constructed and deployed as a mode of organizing. Specifically, her project is focused on strategy emergence, and how some practices rather than others come to be understood as 'strategic' in different organizations, and in particular, how dynamism and continuity combine in strategy emergence. She is similarly interested in how different actors in organizations strategize given tensions between pressures for change and the persistence of formal organizational design. Broadly, she aims to conduct research that is attentive to the everyday practices relating to strategic processes in both public and private organizations.