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SCIENCE AND ACADEMIC CAREERS

The summer school has the aim to understand the social mechanisms of career decisions in academia. As conditions in academia are changing due to differentiation and increasing stratification among higher education institutions, increasing competition for resources and evaluation of achievements, increasingly precarious working conditions and a declining proportion of full or associate professors positions in the academic labour market, a couple of questions arises: Who decides to stay in academia in spite of increasingly difficult career prospects? Are diversity management and equal opportunity programs in order to increase the career chances of women successful? What determines the chances of highly qualified people in the common labour market compared to academia? For which scientists are these drop-out options attractive? How are the chances to find a good job when after 12 or 15 years of work at a university or in research projects it becomes clear that a permanent position will not be available? There will be a mix of theoretical and methodological contents, of analyses of the German academic labour market and international comparisons. Presenters and invited keynote speakers will be from German und international higher education research and science studies. The following renowned experts will be speaking or organizing a workshop:

Public Keynote Speeches by:

• Paula Stephan (Georgia State University), Monday, September 5, 2016, 06:00 p.m. - 07:00 p.m.
• Erin Leahey (University of Arizona), Wednesday, September 7, 2016, 06:00 p.m. - 07:00 p.m.

Workshops by:

• Sandra Beaufays & Andrea Löther (GESIS - Team Center of Excellence Women and Science CEWS)
• Johannes Giesecke (Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Hergen Köhler, Mathis Nolte & Sabrina Petersohn (INSIST)
• Volker Stocké (University of Kassel)

Evening Lesson by:

• Nicolai Netz & Steffen Jaksztat (DZHW)

Hosts:

• Monika Jungbauer-Gans (DZHW) & Christiane Gross (Leibniz University Hanover)

 

Our hosts Monika Jungbauer-Gans and Christiane Gross welcome you at the University of Hanover.

 

Interdisciplinary and jointly organized by the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) and the Institute of Sociology at the University of Hanover, the Summer School will link theory and applied research. The summer school is jointly organized by a consortium of higher education and science studies institutions and continues a tradition that has been laid in September 2015 at the Humboldt University in Berlin which hosted the first summer school. You will meet i.a. the experts from these institutions and can discuss your own work with them:

• Nadia Asheulova (President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Science and Technology RC23 (ISA), Director of the Institute for the History of Science & Technology of RAS, Russia)
• Eva Barlösius (Head of the Leibniz Research Centre Science and Society, Professor at the University of Hanover, LUH)
• Monika Jungbauer-Gans (Scientific Director of the German Centre for Research in Higher Education and Science Studies, DZHW, Professor at the University of Hanover, LUH)
• Sabine Maasen (Professor for Sociology of Science at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich)
• Dagmar Simon (Head of the Research Group Science Policy Studies, Berlin Social Science Center, WZB)

 

 

In addition to presentations and keynotes you can join workshops with methodological and practical contents. Interactive elements like Speed Mentoring (–Meet the experts–) and Interactive Poster Sessions will be used.

We will provide child care free of charge during the summer school. If you are interested, please contact .

 

PROGRAMME

Monday, September 5, 2016

 

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

 

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

 

Thursday, September 8, 2016

 

Friday, September 9, 2016

 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND OTHER DETAILS

Summer School Flyer

CALL FOR PAPERS

Applicants can choose between paper presentations and interactive posters. Paper presentations will have 20 minutes and additional time for discussion. Each poster presenter will have 5 minutes for the poster presentation. After the presentation, the facilitator will open the discussion with the audience. Participants may contribute to the summer school with one of these presentation options. Please note that you can also participate without presenting your topic!

Submissions to the summer school could cover, but are not restricted to the following topics:

• Career trajectories, selection processes, career decisions
• Theoretical framework
• Gender and social origin in academic careers
• Epistemic cultures and gender
• International mobility of scientists
• Differentiation of higher education institutions and its effects on individual careers
• Careers outside academia, mobility in and out of academia
• Experience in industry and careers in science
• Work life balance and academic careers

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Please apply online and submit your abstract (about one page) by June 24, 2016. Letters of acceptance/rejection will be sent by June 29, 2016 as well as detailed information about the location, conference schedule and accommodation options.

CREDITS

Each participant will receive 5 ECTS credits.

FEE

Participation fee is ¤ 75.- to cover coffee breaks, lunches and conference dinner.

ACCOMMODATION

Please make your own arrangements! We recommend the following hotels:

• Hotel Amadeus (Fössestr. 83)
• InterCityHotel (Rosenstr. 1)
• Hotel Loccumer Hof (Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 14/16)
• A & C Hotel Hannover (Hamburger Allee 55)

10 Rooms are pre-reserved until July 4, 2016 (password: Summer School) at Best Western Hotel Hannover-City (Nikolaistr. 12) for 69€/night.

Location

University of Hanover

Main building, 1st floor, room F335 (Senatssaal)
Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover
Germany

How to reach University of Hanover

http://www.uni-hannover.de/en/service/wegweiser/anfahrtsbeschreibung/

Plan of the main building

http://www.uni-hannover.de/en/service/wegweiser/hauptgebaeude/

Sitemap of the University

http://www.uni-hannover.de/en/service/wegweiser/standortfinder/