9 of the 15 doctoral researchers, who start in the winter terms 2018/19 at the BGHS. Foto: Thomas Abel

On Wednesday, 10 October the BGHS Welcome Day in winter term 2018/19 took place. Ursula Mense-Petermann, Director of the BGHS, welcomed the new colleagues. Following this Sabine Schäfer (Executive Management of the BGHS) and Bettina Brandt (Scientific Management of the Department of History) informed the new doctoral researcher about the BGHS, the Faculty of Sociology and the Department of History. After that the doctoral representatives introduced themselves. At the following coffee break in the BGHS-Lounge the doctoral researchers and guests had the chance to get to know each other better.

Getting Started

In the second part of the Welcome Day the new doctoral researchers of the BGHS received some more information concerning the doctorate: information on the study programme and BGHS specific formats (Dr. Sabine Schäfer), on financial support and applications for travel- and mobility grants (Dr. Miriam Kanne), on transferable skills and career services (Melanie Eulitz) and on former and planned public science- and Art&Science-projects (Thomas Abel). Information on technical questions and the infrastructure at the BGHS (Frank Leitenberger) completed the session.

The new doctoral researchers at the BGHS

15 new colleagues are starting their dissertaion projects this winter term: Five Historians (3 female, 2 male) and nice Sociologists (4 female, 6 male).

The new doctoral researchers and their projects:

• Paul Akuetteh Agoe (Sociology): Transnational Influences on Clothing Practices of Second-Generation Ghanaian Immigrants in North-Rhine Westphalia
• Marvin Bürmann (Sociology): Educational Mismatches in Times of Migration and Digitization
• Kim Dang (Soziologie): Self-governance through the concept of career in Vietnamese workers
• Stephan Fasold (History): Auctions as practices of property valuation in the UK and German Territories between 1750 and 1870
• Jan Handelmann (Sociology): Professionalität von sozialwissenschaftlichen Lehrkräften aus Sicht von Fachleiter*innen – Erhebung und Analyse der Professionskonzepte
• Cornelis Holtkamp (History): Class Struggle, Works Community, and Social Partnership. Labour Relations in the Westphalian Metalworking Industry, 1929-1949
• Laura Lükemann (Sociology): Women’s successful labor market integration over the life-course: A study of employee’s and workplace adaption processes to facilitate high career involvement of women around family formation
• Nina Martini (History): Collecting and understanding imagination of learner: An exploratory study about early historical thinking
• Charlotte Marx (Sociology): The impact of the organizational framework on the job quality of women and men
• Charles Simplice Mbatsogo Mebo (Sociology): Return migration policy in Cameroon: Strategic framework and prospects for Co-development
• Jascha Nord (Sociology): Nationen und Verfassungen: Eine historisch-soziologische Analyse zum Beitrag von Verfassungen bei der Entstehung von Nationalstaaten an den Beispielen USA, Frankreich und Haiti
• Eileen Peters (Sociology): How does the organizational framework shape social inequalities between immigrants and natives within workplaces?
• Álvaro Augusto Esinoza Rizo (Sociology): Sacred Spaces in Managua: Approaches from Bourdieu and Lefebvre
• Wanda Schürenberg (History): Narrating National Socialism in contributions to the German Federal President's History Competition: Change and continuity 1973-2017
• Malin Sonja Wilckens (History): Measuring Difference – A Global History of Travelling Skulls

New Researcher in Residence:

Aside from the doctoral researcher we also welcome researcher in residence Murat Kalkan at the BGHS. Murat Kalkan is a research assistant and doctoral researcher in labour economics and industrial relations at Istanbul University. His stay is going to last for one year.