GSC 1024:  Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS)

• Subject Area: Social Sciences ; Educational Research
• Term: from 2012 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 194490384

The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS) was founded in 2010 to establish an innovative working and learning environment for exceptionally qualified doctoral researchers. The School’s ambition is to stimulate and guide cutting-edge research on some of the most crucial challenges faced by modern knowledge-based societies. Its substantive focus is on: (1) variations in the ability and opportunity of individuals to acquire the competencies and qualifications necessary to participate in social, economic and political life (Pillar 1: Education, Personal Development and Learning from Early Childhood to Adulthood); (2) patterns of social and economic inequality contributing to variations in access to education - and the choices individuals make about their own and their offspring’s education across the life course (Pillar 2: Education and Social Inequality Across the Entire Life Course); (3) the consequences of such variations and of demographic developments for labour markets and businesses that are subject to global competition for market shares, investment and human capital (Pillar 3: Changes in Human Capital, Labour Markets and Demographic Structures and their Impact on Social Inequality in Modern Societies); (4) the choices of policy makers searching for responses to these challenges, adjusting national and transnational institutions and seeking to secure political control across a complex web of governance layers from the local to the global (Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour). The Graduate School aims to train a new generation of empirical scholars working on these and related issues. Doctoral researchers at the Graduate School benefit from: (1) the pooled expertise of a number of nationally and internationally recognised sociologists, psychologists, educational scientists, political scientists, economists, demographers and statisticians, (2) a highly research-active environment with an outstanding track record of interdisciplinary projects, (3) a well-established network of high-quality national and international collaborations, (4) a structured yet flexible qualification programme, (5) close and comprehensive supervision and mentoring.

• DFG Programme: Graduate Schools
• Applicant Institution: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Thomas Saalfeld
• Participating Researchers: Professorin Dr. Cordula Artelt; Professor Dr. Uwe Blien; Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Blossfeld; Professor Dr. Herbert Brücker; Professor Dr. Claus Carstensen; Professorin Dr. Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler; Professor Dr. Thomas Gehring; Professor Dr. Johannes Giesecke; Professor Dr. Guido Heineck; Professorin Dr. Cornelia Kristen; Professor Dr. Johannes Marx; Professor Dr. Richard Münch; Professor Dr. Elmar Rieger; Professor Dr. Hans-Günther Roßbach; Professorin Dr. Susanne Rässler (†); Professor Dr. Harald Schoen; Professor Dr. Volker Stocké (†); Professor Dr. Olaf Struck; Professorin Dr. Sabine Weinert