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GSC 243:  Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS)

Subject Area Social Sciences
Term from 2007 to 2014
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39276674
 
Final Report Year 2015

Final Report Abstract

The Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) is the structured doctoral program of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. We focus on providing an internationally-competitive program of research training that provides both theory and methods courses, as well as ample opportunities for hands-on research, international research stays, and international professional conference presentations. The program focuses on the problems of emerging and developed democratic societies as they undergo continued transformation in a global environment. Under the thematic foci “Varieties of Democracy” and “Varieties of Inclusion” our PhDs in Political Science and Sociology are encouraged to analyse interactions between societies and polities using a dynamic institutional approach. The BGSS enjoys research training partnerships with the excellent extra-university research institutions in our Berlin environment, namely the Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin and the Deutsche Institute für Wirtschaftsforschung, which provide research opportunities and in some cases research fellowships for BGSS PhDs. We accept approximately 10 PhDs per year, and provide three years of graduate training comprised of quantitative and qualitative methods courses, special methods workshop that are coordinated Berlin-wide and offered in cooperation with our PhD partner programs, the Berlin School of Transnational Studies (BTS) and the Hertie School of Governance PhD in Governance, as well as supporting courses to support the writing of the literature review and prospectus, and substantive electives on relevant topics such as democratization, new institutionalism, comparative politics and comparative public policy, economic sociology, ethnic and religious conflict, demographic and social inequality, and welfare state futures. Partnerships with Princeton University, Duke University, METU/Ankara, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Haifa, University of Southampton, University of Haifa, amongst others, facilitate research stays and semesters abroad for BGSS doctoral candidates. BGSS doctoral candidates may choose between the Doktor der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Political Science or Sociology, and under BGSS leadership, University regulations have been changed to allow for a cumulative or ‘publications-based’ doctorate. Our placement record is excellent, with 71% of graduates thus far receiving post-doctoral positions, and 63% placements in 6-year post-doctoral positions or lectureships. The BGSS is housed within the Humboldt Graduate School of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, which provides office space and access to training courses for the BGSS, as well as monitoring for the purposes of quality-control.

Link to the final report

http://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:882996177

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