- Course location
- Bamberg
- Description/content
- Researching Real-World Societal Problems
The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS) is a school that joins the Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics, and Business Administration with the Faculty of Human Sciences and Education at the University of Bamberg. Social, empirical, and educational sciences are major fields of research in Bamberg, and this research has a highly regarded international reputation.
A Focused Interdisciplinary Profile
BAGSS seeks to stimulate and guide state-of-the-art doctoral research on vital concerns faced by modern, knowledge-based societies. Specialised research agendas have been grouped into four thematic pillars at BAGSS:
• Education, Personal Development, and Learning from Early Childhood to Adulthood
• Educational and Social Inequality Across the Entire Life Course
• Changes in Human Capital, Labour Markets, and Demographic Structures and Their Relation to Social Inequalities in Modern Societies
• Governance, Institutional Change, and Political Behaviour
These thematic research agendas are linked by a sound methodological base in the empirical social sciences, a shared interest in the interaction between institutions on the one hand and individual choices and societal processes on the other hand.
The substantial problems with which BAGSS scholars are concerned often cross the boundaries of academic disciplines. BAGSS pools the expertise of sociologists, psychologists, educational and political scientists, economists, demographers, and statisticians to provide state-of-the-art, multi- and interdisciplinary supervision of doctoral researchers.
- Faculties
- Human Sciences and Education
• Educational Science
• Psychology
Social Sciences, Economics, and Business Administration
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Economics
• Statistics and Econometrics
- Course language
- Due to the international community, the language of instruction at BAGSS is English.