Inter-university doctoral studies
Examples include: the junior research group of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2009-2014) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Mechthild Bereswill (University of Kassel) on the topic of "Young adults between activation and precarization - institutional interventions and biographical processing in the welfare state"; "Children and childhoods in the field of tension of social modernization", a doctoral college of the Hans Böckler Foundation in cooperation with the University of Wuppertal under the Kassel spokesperson Prof. Dr. Werner Thole (2006-2012); the "Interdisciplinary doctoral college for primary school research" under the direction of Prof. Dr. Friederike Heinzel, supported by the Central Research Funding of the University of Kassel (2006-2012). Dr. Werner Thole (2006-2012); the "Interdisciplinary Doctoral College for Primary School Research" under the direction of Prof. Dr. Friederike Heinzel, supported by the Central Research Funding of the University of Kassel (since 2008) and the Doctoral College for Social Human Rights with the spokespersons Prof. Dr. Minou Banafsche and Prof. Dr. Stamatia Devetzi (2016-2020). As part of the Kassel Institute for Sustainability, the University of Kassel has decided to provide graduate funding for four research assistants in 2022 to address the pressing issues of socio-ecological transformation. These employees will work together in the research group "Social, economic and cultural institutions of a just transformation".
Building on this funding, a JUST research training group "Just and sustainable transformation. Just and sustainable transformation" with twelve doctoral scholarships and one postdoctoral position with funding from the Hans Böckler Foundation (spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Felix Welti, deputy spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Marianne Hirschberg).
The research network is directly associated with the Hans Böckler Foundation's Research Training Group "Welfare State and Interest Organizations". The spokespersons of the Research Training Group, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder and PD Dr. Rudolf Speth, as well as the coordinator Dr. Michaela Schulze work at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel. Also involved in the Research Training Group are Prof. Dr. Felix Welti, Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Kassel, Prof. Dr. Sabine Ruß-Sattar, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel, Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier from the Centre for Social Policy (ZeS) at the University of Bremen and Prof. Dr. Christoph Strünck, Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Siegen.
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