Project Details
Projekt
GSC 208: Graduate School for Integrated Studies of Human Development in Landscapes
Subject Area
Ancient Cultures
Geography
Geography
Term
from 2007 to 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39071778
To gain an understanding of human development, one needs to detail the interactions between mankind and both its physical and perceived environment.
We define landscape as a dynamic space of social, cultural and ecological significance, which develops interactively with the human societies occupying it. Accordingly, we outline a graduate school concept that merges information from molecular biology and archaeology, geoinformatics and art history, geophysics and isotope research, ancient languages and palaeoecology, written/oral traditions and palaeoclimate to study and understand this interactive development. The dynamics of human development - and thus of landscape and living space - are captured by a complex interplay of diverse factors (biological traits of social groups, conditions of the natural environment, social constants and their material representations) covered by the joint research of our disciplines. The education and research at the school will be organised in three clusters and supported by three research platforms. The students will receive necessary skills during a three-year study programme. Adjustments to the study regulations will further interdisciplinary international graduate research.
Within the framework of a graduate school, we will be able to provide individual tutoring of graduate students, interdisciplinary graduate clusters as well as the technological means and expertise to collect, process, visualise and analyse spatial and temporal data from multidisciplinary sources. New research tools, developed to obtain and process scientific and cultural data, will promote international excellence in graduate training and research and attract a national and international graduate student population to Kiel.
It is this integration of interdisciplinary supervision that will distinguish Kiel as an optimal location for studies in "Human Development in Landscapes".
We define landscape as a dynamic space of social, cultural and ecological significance, which develops interactively with the human societies occupying it. Accordingly, we outline a graduate school concept that merges information from molecular biology and archaeology, geoinformatics and art history, geophysics and isotope research, ancient languages and palaeoecology, written/oral traditions and palaeoclimate to study and understand this interactive development. The dynamics of human development - and thus of landscape and living space - are captured by a complex interplay of diverse factors (biological traits of social groups, conditions of the natural environment, social constants and their material representations) covered by the joint research of our disciplines. The education and research at the school will be organised in three clusters and supported by three research platforms. The students will receive necessary skills during a three-year study programme. Adjustments to the study regulations will further interdisciplinary international graduate research.
Within the framework of a graduate school, we will be able to provide individual tutoring of graduate students, interdisciplinary graduate clusters as well as the technological means and expertise to collect, process, visualise and analyse spatial and temporal data from multidisciplinary sources. New research tools, developed to obtain and process scientific and cultural data, will promote international excellence in graduate training and research and attract a national and international graduate student population to Kiel.
It is this integration of interdisciplinary supervision that will distinguish Kiel as an optimal location for studies in "Human Development in Landscapes".
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Johannes Müller
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Oliver Auge; Professor Dr. Hans-Rudolf Bork; Professor Dr. Johannes Bröcker (†); Professor Dr. Claus von Carnap-Bornheim; Professorin Dr. Manuela Dittmar; Professor Dr. Rainer Duttmann; Professor Dr. Anton Eisenhauer; Professor Dr. Gerhard Fouquet; Professor Pieter M. Grootes, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Astrid Holzheid; Professor Dr. Lorenz Kienle; Professorin Dr. Wiebke Kirleis; Professor Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Koch; Professor Dr. Olaf Köller; Professorin Dr. Almut Nebel; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Rabbel; Professor Dr. Ralph Schneider; Professor Dr. Stefan Schreiber; Professor Dr. Bernhard Thalheim; Professor Dr. Ingmar Unkel; Professor Dr. Josef Wiesehöfer
