STUDENTS: Join International PhD Program

The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its PhD program. The program is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. BIGSSS is an interuniversity institute of the University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen. The program provides close supervision of dissertation work within a demand-tailored education and an international research framework. The language of instruction is English. The graduate school encompasses five thematic fields: global integration, integration and diversity in Europe, social integration and the welfare state, attitude formation, value change and intercultural communication, and life-course and lifespan dynamics.

The Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development of the Jacobs University (www.jacobs-university.de/jacobs) is one of the academic units participating in BIGSSS. We seek in particular applicants in one area:

Applicants should have strong academic abilities, a background in psychology (Master degree) and be interested in conducting their PhD work in the area of lifespan development, in particular they should be interested in questions of adult personality development (in the work context).

We offer PhD stipends of Euro 1250/month for 3 years, contingent upon successful completion of each year. The program starts September 1, 2008. More information as well as required application materials can be found at www.bigsss-bremen.de or sekstaudinger@jacobs-university.de (tel. +49 421 2004700). Applications may be sent until March 1, 2008 to the following address: Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau, Founding Dean, Universität Bremen, P.O. Box 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany.

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