Alumni and Job Placement
Name (year of graduation, Dissertation Title), current position, current institution
Aigul Alieva (2008, Educational policies of small nations: performance of immigrant children in Luxembourg and Switzerland), Assistant Professor, IMPALLA programme, CEPS/INSTEAD (Luxembourg) and KU Leuven (Belgium)
Can Aybek (2008, Migrantenjugendliche zwischen Schule und Beruf: Individuelle Übergänge und kommunale Strukturen der Ausbildungsförderung [Immigrant Youth between School and Profession: Individual Transitions and Urban Institutional Structures Supporting Vocational Education and Training]), Lecturer and Research Associate at the Universities of Siegen and Bremen, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Weber Programme of the European University Institute in Florence/Italy.
Kerstin Blome (2009, Individual Legal Protection beyond the Nation-State - An Indicator for the Internationalization of the Rule of Law?), Research Associate, University of Bremen, SFB 597 "Transformation of the State"
Oliver Buntrock (2009, Structures of Problem-Solving. Micro-Institutions and the Solution of the European Steel Crises in the European Coal and Steel Community)
Oliver Eberl (2007, Demokratie und Frieden. Kants Friedensschrift in den Kontroversen über die Gestaltung globaler Ordnung), Assistant Professor, Political Theory, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dawid Friedrich (2008, The Democratic Potential of Governance Arrangements in a Postnational Context), Junior Professor of International Relations at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Lorraine Frisina (2006, Understanding Regional Development: Absorption Institutions and Socio-economic Growth in the regions of the European Union - A Case Study on the Italian Regions), Researcher, SFB 597 "Staatlichkeit im Wandel", University of Bremen
Katarzyna Gajewska (2008, Europeanizing Workers' Solidarity. Mechanisms of commitment to cooperation within the European trade union movement)
Kristina Hahn (2008, NGOs' Power of Definition. Identity Productions in Counter-Human Trafficking Discourse and the Debates on the UN Protocol), Research Associate, University of Bremen, SFB 597 "Transformations of the State"
Sabine Henrichsen-Schrembs (2008, Modern Life Courses: Yoga and the Search for Meaning in Contemporary Germany), Learning Officer, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam
Sebastian Huster (2007, Transnational Administrative Cooperation in the European Union: The Relevance of the Committee System for the Problem-Solving Capacity of the EU), Research Associate (Referent für Forschung im Präsidialstab), Leibniz Universität Hannover
Dong-Ho Jang (2008, Welfare Geography and the Changing World of Welfare Municipalities: Social spending in Denmark and South Korea analyzed), Professor at the Department of Social Welfare, Namseoul University, South Korea
Bettina Kohlrausch (2007, A Ticket to Work? Labour Markets and Life Courses: Policies for the Young Unemployed in Britain and Germany), Research Associate (tenured), Sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut (SOFI), University of Göttingen
Regine Köller (2006, Ruhestand - mehr Zeit für Lebensqualität), Researcher, Institute for Social Research and Social Policy, Köln
Daniela Kroos (2008, Between Autonomy and Risk. Individualised Jobs and Labour Market Institutions in Germany and France), Research Associate, Collaborative Research Area 597 "Transformation of the State" at the University of Bremen
Kathrin Leuze (2007, Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road? Comparing the Institutional Embeddedness of Graduate Careers in Germany and Britain), Junior Professor of Sociology of Education at the Freie Universität Berlin
Erica Marat (2005, Domestic Sources of Regional Alignment in the Postcolonialism: A Study of Security Policies in the Post-Soviet Central Asian States), Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University/Uppsala University
Nadja Meisterhans (2007, The Constitution of Global Governance in Kantian Perspective: Voting for a Global Contract), Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, University of Hannover
Andreas Obermaier (2007, The End of the Principle of Territoriality? The Impact of European Court of Justice Rulings in the Domain of Patient Mobility on Germany, France and the United Kingdom), Research Program Officer, GD Forschung, L4 "Wissenschaftliche Bildung und Genderfragen in der Forschung", Brüssel
Ania Plomien (2007, Poland's Accession to the European Union and the Labour Market Politics and Policies Pertaining to Women's Employment), Research Fellow, Dept. of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Elisabeth Reichart (2006, Erwerbsteilung bei Paaren aus Ost- und Westdeutschland im Verlauf der 1990er Jahre: Etablierung oder Wandel des Ernährer-Modells?), Researcher, German Institute for Adult Education, Bonn
Thomas Richter (2008, Authoritarian Rule, Material Resources, and Foreign Trade Reforms: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan between 1970 and 2003), Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies, Hamburg
Barbara Rinken (2009, Spielräume in der Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Familie? Alleinerziehende Mütter und Väter mit ost- und westdeutscher Herkunft), currently applying for a job
Patrick Sachweh (2009, Deutungsmuster sozialer Ungleichheit. Eine qualitative Studie zur Moralökonomie von Privilegierung und Benachteiligung), Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.
Susanne Strauß (2007, Volunteering - Pathway to the Labour market or Dead-end? The Interrelation between Unemployment and Volunteering in Germany and Great Britain), Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Tübingen
Christopher Swader (2008, Transformation to a Market Economy and Changing Social Values in China, Russia, and Eastern Germany), Director of Studies, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Bremen, Germany
Larysa Tamilina (2009, The impact of welfare states on social trust formation: a multidimensional approach)
Lars Thomann (2008, Conditions and Perspectives of SuccessÂful Compliance with International Labour Standards) Research Assistant in the project "Governance in International Trade: Judicialization and positive integration in the WTO", at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
Boris Traue (2008, The 'Coached' Self and its Counselors - Professions and Biography in Post-Industrial Societies), Research Associate, Institute for Sociology, Technical University of Berlin
Nina Wichmann (2006, The European Union as an External Actor in the Democratization Process of Serbia and Croatia), Deputy-Director of the Institute, Goethe-Institut, Sarajevo
Sonja Wrobel (2007, Notwendig und gerecht? Eine vergleichende Analyse der Legitimation von Rentenreformen in Deutschland und Frankreich), Research Program Officer, Unit for Social Sciences and Humanities, Ministry of Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Hao Yuan (2008, Subjective Well-being in Transition: a Comparison between China and East Germany), Lecturer, Shanghai University
Current Fellows
Name (expected year of graduation, Dissertation Title), current position, current institution
Catherine Blair (2010, Adjusting the Age of Entitlement. Patterns and Trends in Recent State Pension Age Changes in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and France), Policy Adviser, Department for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom
Christoph Engemann (2009, The Citoyen of Electronic Government. Selbstbestimmung und bürgerliches Co-Management in der staatlichen Leistungserstellung), Postdoctoral Researcher at the Science, Technology and Society Program, University of Texas at Austin
Sina Farzin (2009, Die Rhetorik der Exklusion), Universität Bremen, Institut für Soziologie / Lehrstuhl für Soziologische Theorie
Mayank-Kumar Golpelwar (2009, Psychosocial and economics effects of outsourcing to India. Suitability of concepts from social sciences in the Western world), Researcher, Lehrstuhl Personalwesen und Führungslehre at the University of Bayreuth
Charlotte Dany (2010, The Ambiguity of Participation. Limits of NGO Influence at the World Summit on the Information Society) Research Assistant at the Political Science Institute, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Stefanie Henneke (2009, How can governments communicate labour market reforms successfully? A case study comparison of Germany and the UK), Party Leader, the Green Party of Lower Saxony (Landesvorsitzende, Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN Niedersachsen)
Sebastian Jobelius (2009, Learning in the EU Context. The Impact of the European Employment Strategy on National Policy Making. A Case Study of German Low Wage Sector Policies), Desk Officer (Referent), German Ministry of Labor
Igor Jovanoski (2010, A political culture clash? Divergent conceptions of sovereignty and the EU-US relationship), Lecturer, University American College Skopje, Macedonia
Stephan Köppe (2010, Wohlfahrtsmärkte und regulative Sozialpolitik in Deutschland, Schweden und den USA. Wandel oder Stabilität?), Research Fellow - ESRC Project "Welfare Markets and Personal Risk Management in England and Scotland", Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Benedikt Rogge (2010, How unemployment gets under the skin. Understanding mental health impairments after job loss from a sociological identity perspective), Research Associate, EMPAS, University of Bremen
Christian Möllmann (2009, The politics of pension fund governance. The making of norms for corporate pension provision in transnational perspective), Coordinator, Promotionskolleg "Global Social Policies and Governance", University of Kassel
Claudia Ruddat (2009, Erfolgsfaktoren für die Begründung von Sozialstaatsreformen am Beispiel der Hartz IV Reform), Research Associate, Universität Bochum, Social Sciences Division, Chair of Prof. Jörg Bogumil, Project on Public Administration
Andrea Schäfer (2009, Investment in the next generation – A comparison of Germany and Britain), Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Policy (ZeS), Bremen
Christian Völkel (2010, The Political Origins of Human Development. State Formation, Institutional Persistence and Long-Run Educational Development in Latin America), Country Analyst Latin America, IHS Global Insight, London
René Zimmermann (2010, We the Peoples?! Transnational Public Spheres as a Core Principle of a Postnational Developement of Democracy), Fraktionsreferent BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, Bremische Bürgerschaft