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Welcome Day Winter Semester 2025/26

::7 new doctoral researchers at the BGHS::

On Tuesday, 14 October, the BGHS Welcome Day for the winter semester 2025/26 took place. The BGHS director Ruth Ayaß welcomed the new doctoral researchers, who had the opportunity to introduce themselves and get to know the doctoral representatives and the BGHS office staff. Sabine Schäfer then introduced the BGHS training and study programme. We wish all new members a wonderful start to their doctorate at the BGHS.

The new BGHS doctoral researchers and their projects:

Annika Duin (History): Post für die Vergangenheit. Briefe als Reaktionen auf antisemitische Gewalt 1945–1990

Sarah Frimpong (Sociology): Digital Financial Inclusion and Transnational Labour Markets: Nigerian Women in the Madina Market

Rachel Herfurth (Sociology): Untersuchung der Kompetenzen und Haltungen von HRSGe-Studierenden der Sozialwissenschaften im Umgang mit sozialer Ungleichheit in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Bildung

Franca Heuer (Sociology): Knowledge Production in Court: Judging Jihadist-Motivated Terrorism at German Higher Regional Courts

Laura Späth (Sociology): More Than Just Hair: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Journey of Hairpieces from China to Nigeria

Vrameswari Wati (Sociology): Exploring Pro-Gender Norms: The Discourse on Feminist Foreign Policy in Indonesia

Mario Wolf (Sociology): Measuring media political orientation in German local newspapers

You can find the Welcome Day presentation here.