The BAGSS Grant Writing Stipend for Postdoctoral Researchers is awarded for twelve months with the option of a six-month extension, starting from 01 April 2025. In individual cases, the starting date may be up to three months after that if necessary. The stipend amounts to 2,500 EUR per month. In addition, grant recipients are provided with office space and necessary equipment at BAGSS.
During the initial twelve-month period, recipients are expected to develop an excellent project proposal and submit it to an external funding body, e.g. the German Research Foundation (DFG). The grant proposal must include funding for the applicant’s own position afterwards, e.g. via an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group (DFG), an ERC Starting Grant, or a Temporary Position for Principal Investigators (“Eigene Stelle”, DFG). The Stipend is automatically extended for six months if the proposal has been submitted to an external funding body within the initial funding period.
//REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATINS
The Bamberg Graduate School welcomes applications from postdoctoral researchers who hold a doctoral degree in the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Education, Political Science, Labour and Educational Economics and Demography. Qualified postdoctoral researchers of related subjects with a strong Social Science background are also encouraged to apply. We invite researchers whose research project fits into the research profile of at least one of our School’s four Pillars. Projects cutting across two (or more) Pillars are equally welcomed.
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
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/grant-writing-stipend-for-postdoctoral-researchers/
The deadline for the submission of your application is Friday, 1 November 2024.