{"id":4977,"date":"2018-10-02T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2019-10-03T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T17:55:21","slug":"conference-forces-and-forms-of-doctoral-education-sept-5-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/conference-forces-and-forms-of-doctoral-education-sept-5-6-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When: September 5 – 6, 2019<\/span><\/h3>\n

Where: Herrenhausen Castle | Hannover, Germany<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Organized\u00a0 by CIRGE and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science<\/a> <\/span>
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Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation
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See Preliminary Program here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Conference background<\/span><\/h1>\n

During the last decade there have been significant changes in doctoral education worldwide: In many countries, the numbers of doctoral candidates and doctoral granting institutions have increased to help drive both national innovation and research performance of individual institutions, especially in Asia. Worldwide, there is a greater focus on diverse employment prospects and<\/span>
\ntransferable skills of doctorate holders and postdocs. At the same time, the world is changing faster than ever.\u00a0 Seemingly adverse developments with yet unknown effects, namely digitization as potential driver of progress as well as increased insecurity and the simultaneous deterioration of democracies aligned with the rise of populist or fundamentalist movements characterize the second decade of the 21st century. Training doctoral candidates to become the next generation of creative, critical, autonomous and responsible intellectual risk takers is more essential than ever in these times of epochal challenges and unsettling changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now is the time to review the changes in doctoral education, their successes and failures, and to explore ways forward for training new generations of researchers to become future leaders in developing and developed societies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conference objectives<\/span><\/h1>\n