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GSC 10:  International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)

Subject Area Literary Studies
History
Social Sciences
Term from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24060273
 
Final Report Year 2019

Final Report Abstract

With the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University has established a centre of excellence in graduate studies and the Study of Culture, based on the model and experiences of the Giessener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften. During both funding periods, GCSC’s main academic aims have been 1) to maintain a sustainable structure-creating strategy ensuring prime conditions for PhD students, 2) to foster the development of new approaches and methodologies for the Study of Culture and the transfer of concepts between diverse disciplines and academic cultures, 3) to achieve high international profile for research at JLU in the field of the Study of Culture, 4) to establish long-term collaboration with top-ranking international graduate schools and European PhD and research networks. The vision, academic profile as well as the organisation of the GCSC are grounded in six programmatic principles. Central and pivotal to JLU’s strategic planning, the GCSC has continuously fostered 1) genuinely interdisciplinary collaboration, 2) methodological pluralism, 3) engagement in eight cutting-edge research areas, 4) Europeanwide and global initiatives ensuring an international orientation, 5) an innovative and holistic research training strategy, and 6) dedication to self-reflexive academic teaching. The measures that have been implemented to achieve these goals include comprehensive research training options (incl. a core curriculum, international master classes and summer schools, independent graduate research groups, conference experience, publishing opportunities, a Teaching Centre, Career Service and a supervision and mentoring programme), the establishment of professional management structures, the integration of excellent researchers from abroad, and the full induction of (post-)doctoral members into the international academic community. Since 2012, the centre has strengthened its position and reputation as an internationally renowned centre for research and research training in the Study of Culture. Areas in which the GCSC has successfully expanded its activities include: 1) innovation in the research profile through a restructuring of, and increased synergies between, the eight research areas as well as through the introduction of four new working groups on emerging socio-cultural topics, 2) additional partnerships for the research training programme with leading German institutions, 3) systematic links between cutting-edge research and under-graduate teaching through the establishment of a predoctoral programme, 4) implementation of a holistic career advancement programme for postdocs, 5) further employability through new partnerships and intensive alumni work, 6) development of international research training in Europe and beyond as well as the sustainable establishment and expansion of the PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies as a pioneering model for a European PhD in the Study of Culture.

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1700458310

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