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In this section, you will find information about recent developments at the College – current research activities and projects, recent publications and achievements, new colleagues and Fellows, and reviews of events.

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PostdocLab Groups Start Work on Projects: AI in Science Communication, Civic Education, Urban Conflicts

25/10/2024, Essen

Three working groups with researchers from the University Alliance Ruhr take up their projects on AI in science communication, civic education and political socialisation, and conflicts over urban space. They receive funding for 1.5 years as part of the College’s PostdocLab programme.

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Newly Appointed: Tahani Nadim Investigates Memory Cultures in Digital Transformation

15/10/2024, Essen

With Tahani Nadim, Ruhr University Bochum and the College for Social Sciences and Humanities have gained a versed sociologist of science with a strong interdisciplinary profile for a research professorship in digital humanities.

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College Welcomes Second Cohort of Senior Fellows

19/09/2024

The second cohort of international Senior Fellows has arrived at the College in Essen. The accomplished researchers from universities around the world will spend the next six months working on collaborative projects with their tandem partners from the University Alliance Ruhr.

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New Publications: Ecology and Decoloniality, Strategic Bureaucracy in Universities, and Clashing Principles in Development Cooperation

05/08/2024

Recently published articles by Senior Fellows address the nexus of ecology and decoloniality, strategic bureaucracy in university governance, and country ownership and LGBTQI+ inclusion in hostile environments.

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Event Review: Feminist Foreign and Development Policy - Key to Transformation or Exercise in Branding?

02/08/2024

In an insightful and lively panel discussion, which took place at the College on 25 June 2024, experts from government and academia exchanged views and elucidated various facets of feminist foreign and development policies. The event review is now available.

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Call Senior Fellows
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Call for Papers: Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Postcolonial English Contexts

18/07/2024

For an international workshop planned for 6 and 7 February 2025, we call for papers on possible presentations. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 October 2024. The workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in discussing theoretical approaches, methodologies, and discourse-pragmatic items implicated in discourse-pragmatic variation in a wide variety of communicative interactions…

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Open Position: Research Professorship "Public Social Sciences and Humanities: Key Societal Debates"

08/07/2024

The College for Social Sciences and Humanities is seeking to fill the position of the Research Professorship (W3) "Public Social Sciences and Humanities: Key Societal Debates". Qualified candidates are welcome to apply by 19 August.

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College Launches New Funding Programme PostdocLab

17/06/2024

The College for Social Sciences and Humanities launches a new funding programme for excellent postdoctoral researchers from the University Alliance Ruhr working in the social sciences and humanities: the PostdocLab | College UA Ruhr. Up to three cross-university working groups, both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary, can receive funding from October 2024 until April 2026. Applications are…

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Call for Applications: Senior Fellowships at the University Alliance Ruhr from 2025

10/04/2024

The College for Social Sciences and Humanities calls for applications for its Senior Fellowship Programme. Excellent international researchers in the social sciences and humanities and tandem partners from the University Alliance Ruhr can apply until 10 June 2024 for research fellowships commencing in March or September 2025.

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First Senior Fellows Start Research Stays at the College

21/03/2024, Essen

The first international Senior Fellows have begun their research stays at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities in the beginning of March. Their reception marks the official start of the international Senior Fellowship Programme, admitting up to 20 visiting researchers per year.

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