Starter PhD Scholarships, University of Bamberg, Germany (2016)

University of Bamberg is awarding Starter Scholarships for Doctoral Candidates. The scholarship holders will receive a great amount of support throughout their Starter Scholarship to help them identify further funding opportunities. This support will be in the form of workshops, mentoring, advisory services and access to a rich research community.

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 behavior.

Eligibility
- Highly qualified graduates in the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Education, Political Science, Labour and Educational Economics and Demography;
- Qualified graduates of related subjects with a strong Social Science background are also encouraged to apply;
- Candidates holding a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in one of the aforementioned subjects or be very close to completion. (The degree must be completed by the time of admission to BAGSS. The next admission date is April 1, 2016);
- Candidates with an excellent command of English (If English is not your native tongue, you will need to provide proof of English language proficiency);
- Candidates whose proposed doctoral research topic fits thematically with at least one of the four academic pillars of BAGSS.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.mladiinfo.eu