GRK 2105:  Doing transitions - Formen der Gestaltung von Übergängen im Lebenslauf

• Subject Area: Educational Research ; Social Sciences
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 261443382

The research training group focuses on how transitions unfold over the life course. After a predominance of studies on the effects of life-course transitions on individual life-course trajectories, the first phase of the research training group shifted the analysis to reconstruct how transitions are shaped through interrelated discursive, institutional and individual practices. For its second phase, this perspective has been extended to include the impact of interpersonal, temporal and material dimensions of the formation of transitions. The research programme consists of three core areas: - interpersonal relationships, especially in terms of the connection between different people’s transitions, - temporalities in terms of historical developments and the transformation of transitions, their progression, and how they are linked across the lifespan, - materialities in terms of the role of space, bodies and artefacts in the constitution of lifecourse transitions. Additionally, the interrelation between these dimensions of formation is of interest. Such a research perspective contributes to increasing the reflexivity of transition research regarding - the constitution of transitions, also as research objects that are formed by research itself, - the reproduction of social inequalities in transitions through their interpersonal, temporal and material, that is spatial, bodily and artefactual structuration, - the positioning of early-career researchers in disciplines, research areas and professional fields that are concerned with transitions and the interfaces in which transitions evolve. The research training group addresses excellent early-career researchers primarily from the fields of education, sociology and psychology. Its quality results from the complementarity of the two partner universities with specialised profiles in transition research, the consortium’s high degree of expertise, the availability of international networks, its differentiated process of recruitment as well as its training programme which is sensitive to ensuring participation and equal opportunities of underrepresented groups.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Co-Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Andreas Walther
• Participating Researchers: Professorin Dr. Sabine Andresen; Professorin Dr. Petra Bauer; Professorin Dr. Birgit Becker; Professorin Dr. Christiane Hof; Professorin Dr. Ursula Offenberger; Professor Dr. Frank Oswald; Professor Dr. Markus Rieger-Ladich; Professorin Pia Sophia Schober, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Sarah Speck; Professorin Dr. Barbara Stauber; Anna Wanka, Ph.D., since 1/2023