Graduate School
The Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” maintains a Graduate School for the promotion of junior researchers and of the unity of research and teaching. The school has been offering doctoral students from the Humanities and the Social Sciences an interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies Programme since 2007. The doctoral candidates receive academic supervision from four mentors. The central coordination office is responsible for the organisation of the Graduate School. The institution supports focused and structured doctoral studies on a topic from the conflicting interests of religion and politics. It offers junior researches the independent participation in interdisciplinary research.
From 2007 to 2012, during the Cluster of Excellence’s first funding phase, 47 doctoral students completed the interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies Programme of the Graduate School. They found subsequent employment with other universities and research institutions and in publishing houses, schools, government departments, church institutions and libraries.
From the beginning of the winter semester 2013-2014, the Graduate School will commence the Doctoral Studies Programme for the second funding stage of the research association. It will again offer junior researchers the opportunity of focused and structured doctoral studies in an interdisciplinary context of research.
Four mentors from different disciplines have taken on the scientific management of the Graduate School and of mentoring the doctoral candidates. Professors of the Cluster of Excellence supervise the doctoral theses.
The central coordination office is responsible for the organisation of the Graduate School. The interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies Programme is geared to the Cluster of Excellence’s four fields of research: normativity, mediality, integration and violence. It is designed to train the doctoral students in the traditions and demands of their own research discipline, but also to broaden their view beyond the limits of their disciplines and faculties.
Kontakt:
Julia Simoleit M. A.Graduate School
Johannisstraße 1-4
room 8
D-48143 Münster
Phone: +49 251 83-23346
Fax: +49 251 83-23333
julia.simoleit@uni-muenster.de
