CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – DOCTORAL CANDIDATES
Starter Scholarship
The scholarships are available from 1 April 2025 for the duration of one year.
We welcome applications from candidates aiming to write their doctoral thesis at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences. A scholarship will enable you to develop an excellent research proposal and submit it to appropriate funding bodies. The graduate school supports scholarship holders through personal mentoring, workshops, and support services.
The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences is a multidisciplinary Graduate School funded by the Bavarian State. We are seeking to stimulate and guide cutting-edge doctoral research on some of the most crucial challenges modern knowledge-based societies are facing.
Specialised research agendas have been grouped into four thematic pillars:
PILLAR 1: Education, personal development and learning from early childhood to adulthood
PILLAR 2: Educational and social inequality across the entire life course
PILLAR 3: Changes in human capital, labour markets and demographic structures and their impact on social structures in modern societies
PILLAR 4: Governance, institutional change and political behaviour
A detailed list of topics that will be supervised by professors in our four pillars can be found here:
www.uni-bamberg.de/bagss/application/topics
// QUALIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS:
We are inviting applications by highly qualified graduates from the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Educational Science, Political Science, Labour and Educational Economics, Demography and Statistics. Candidates must hold a Master‘s degree (or equivalent) in one of the aforementioned subjects or be very close to completion. International applications are encouraged but successful applicants will be required to take up their residence in Bamberg, a city noted for its high quality of life and great conditions for research and study. Starter scholarships amount to a monthly stipend of 1,568 EUR, plus other allowances according to the Graduate School’s guidelines. The Graduate School is committed to diversity, equal opportunities and the compatibility of family and career within its statutory obligations.
For further information about the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, the application process and the required documents, please visit our website at
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/application/starter-scholarships/
The deadline for the submission of your application is Sunday, 15 September 2024.