DFG Research Training Group Gewohnter Wandel (housing and spatial materialisation) - structured doctorate at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

The DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) "Gewohnter Wandel. Social Transformation and Spatial Materialisation of Housing" is a joint doctoral programme of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Goethe University Frankfurt, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since autumn 2024. It offers 12 fellows and up to 8 associated doctoral students a structured 3.5-year programme accompanying their doctoral research. Researchers work interdisciplinarily on how social change and the built form of housing interact.

Duration: 3.5 years  |  Intake: Two cohorts in the first funding period (2024-2029): one starting in 2024 and one in 2027  |  Study mode: full-time; funded structured research training group (Weimar and Frankfurt); research degree  |  Location: Weimar, Thüringen, Germany

What you will study

Fellows follow a structured supervision, study and qualification programme in the theories and methods of interdisciplinary housing research. Research is organised in three fields: everyday housing practices and appropriation, regulation and governance of housing provision, and production and management of housing (design, construction, financing, operation). Participating disciplines include architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, human geography, sociology, art history, infrastructure economics and human-computer interaction.

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