These scholarships are available from October 1st, 2015, initially for two years (subject to a satisfactory progress review after 12 months). An extension to a third year is subject to the availability of funds and a satisfactory review.

BAGSS is a multidisciplinary Graduate School funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) as part of the German Excellence Initiative. We are seeking to stimulate and guide cutting-edge doctoral research on some of the most crucial challenges modern knowledge-based societies are facing. Specialised research agendas have been grouped into four thematic pillars:

- Pillar 1: Education, personal development and learning from early childhood to adulthood
- Pillar 2: Education and social inequality across the entire life course
- Pillar 3: Changes in human capital, labour markets and demographic structures and their impact on social inequality in modern societies
- Pillar 4: Governance, institutional change and political behaviour

Further details:
http://academicpositions.eu