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GSC 268:  Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology

Subject Area Social Sciences
History
Term from 2007 to 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 50315326
 
Final Report Year 2020

Final Report Abstract

The Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) is the excellent interdisciplinary and international graduate school at Bielefeld University that organises and coordinates the structured doctoral training in history and sociology. The BGHS offers a unique researchoriented study programme in English and German to its roughly 160 doctoral researchers, combined with support measures for their career development. The three- to five-year programme leads to the degree of Dr. phil. in history or sociology. The BGHS benefits from the longstanding strength and visibility in both research and teaching of the constituent disciplines history and sociology. The graduate school is the result of, as well as stepping stone for, the close cooperation between these two disciplines, which itself looks back on a long tradition in Bielefeld. The BGHS plays a pioneering role in the concept Bielefeld University has developed for the promotion of young researchers, including its focus on diversity. It is an identifying characteristic of the graduate school to combine the promotion of distinguished independent research with raising the overall standard of doctoral training by including almost all doctoral researchers in history and sociology into its programme. Its principal aim is to educate and train creative, communicative and autonomous young researchers and integrate them into diverse international academic cultures at an early stage of their career. The graduate school is committed to preparing its doctoral researchers for leading roles in either the academic world or professional contexts outside of academia. At the BGHS, doctoral researchers acquire a broad knowledge of theories and methodologies, learn about the formative conditions of their own disciplinary background and engage in interdisciplinary exchange. Moreover, the BGHS fosters the career development in and outside of academia. The BGHS study programme is designed to cater to doctoral researchers’ guidance needs as they arise during dissertation project research. The BGHS sees itself as a model of a graduate school that represents a thematically broad, internationally networked structured doctoral programme geared to interdisciplinary exchange in the long term. The promotion of independent junior researchers is one of the central features of the BGHS, as is the inclusion of doctoral researchers from the faculties' current and planned research projects in the structured doctoral programme.

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1702179710

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