Doctoral programmes with a focus on Southeast Europe

Study programme

The training programme includes both the conceptualisation phase and the fieldwork and research phase at other universities. It consists of mentoring triangle, dissertation seminars, semester exams, mobility and teaching activities, skill development courses, conferences and workshops, as well as participation in brownbag seminars and discussion forums. The doctoral programme is designed for a duration of eight semesters - see PDF with detailed tabular presentation

Research

Our project is based on the understanding that the Europeanisation of Southeast Europe is insufficiently researched as an empirical phenomenon, and that the currently dominant analytical approach to Europeanisation is very narrow and often rests on problematic normative assumptions. Therefore, the project aims to generate new knowledge about the Europeanisation of Southeast Europe from diachronic and synchronic perspectives, and to create new understandable theoretical tools for a critical-constructivist shift in Europeanisation research. The project is also based on the understanding that Southeast European studies and area studies in general have limited concepts and empirical understandings of regions, as they construct, for example, regions as "container areas" that are supposedly unique, remote, different, and "peripheral", "other". The project aims to find out how these challenges can be overcome cognitively, theoretically and empirically. That is, the project aims to produce new knowledge and understandings of regions that go beyond methodological regionalism and nationalism, and conceptualise Southeast Europe as an integral part of the (European) world.

Gender Equality

Gender equality is a priority of this doctoral programme and is reflected on three levels: First, by ensuring and promoting an adequate representation of women as faculty members. Second, in considering research interests and further engagement of faculty members. And thirdly, during the selection of PhD students. The proportion of women in previous and current cohorts is higher than 65%. More than half (54%), or seven out of 13 core members of the faculty, are women - which clearly exceeds the FWF's recommended lower limit (30%). The composition of the faculty is not static: when a faculty position is to be filled, increasing the proportion of women is clearly taken into account as part of the selection criteria. While both the spokesperson and co-spokesperson are currently men, the faculty members have decided to rotate these positions every two years and to fill them with at least one woman.

Selection criteria for faculty members and associate members

Selection procedure for doctoral candidates

Study programme