This get-together offers an informal opportunity for students, PhD researchers, and postdoctoral researchers to share their personal experiences and engage in discussions related to academia and sustainable welfare. In the next meeting, we will in particular talk about upcoming conferences that might be interesting to attend as well as our ongoing projects.
Our meetings usually take place via zoom directly before or after the colloquium. The concrete time will be announced on the homepage as well as via our mailing list.
If you are interested in joining us, you can sign up for our mailing list by sending an e-mail to: jana.brandl(at)univie.ac.at or robin.schulze_waltrup(at)uni-bielefeld.de
What is this group about
- Getting to know other students, PhD and post-doc researchers interested in issues of eco-social policies and sustainable welfare
- Sharing experiences on working within academia and career development
- Discussing our own research (and hardships we might be facing)
- Exploring overlaps in interests for potential future collaborations
- Exchanging and connecting before relevant conferences and summer schools
- Discussing important themes and questions within the field
- Possibility to read and discuss our own individual work and/or other important publications in the field
Upcoming meetings
Early-Career Researchers Meeting
The date of the next meeting will be announced soon.
Book Club
In addition to the regular meetings we have decided to initiate a Book Club. The idea is to read books relevant to our work to discuss them together. We choose the books together.
The first book is ‘Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institution for Collective Action’ by Elinor Ostrom.
The second book is the edited volume by Domorenok, E., Graziano, P., & Zimmermann, K. (2025). The Eco-Social Polity?: Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues. Policy Press.
The next Book Club meeting will take place on Wednesday, the 19th of November at 14:00 (here the link to the Zoom room).
We will be reading and discussing:
- Chapter 4: The-growth-independent welfare state by Laura Wiman, Raphael Kaufmann, Katharina Bohnenberger, and Steffen Lange.
- Chapter 5: When the lifeworld colonises the system: the uncertain political prospects of eco-social transitions by Daniel Hausknost
of the edited volume The Eco-Social Polity? Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Issues (available here).
Previous meetings
1st virtual get together for early-career researchers, December 13th 2022, 16.00 – 17.30 (CET)
2nd virtual Young Scholars get-together, February 15th 2023
3rd virtual Young Scholars get-together, May 10th 2023, 16:00 – 17:30 (CET)
4th Virtual Young Scholars’ get-together, January 24th, 2023; 17:00 – 17:30 (CET)
5th Virtual Young Scholars’ get-together, November 29th, 2023; 16:00 – 16:30 (CET)
6th Early-Career Scholars Meeting, March 27th 2024; 16:00-17:00 (CET)
7th Early-Career Scholars Meeting, June 5th 2024; 14:30-15:30 (CET)
In this meeting, we had a certain focus on the conference season that is coming up. We shared our experiences with previous conferences and provide space to already get to know some people to meet at the conferences.
8th Early Career Scholar meeting, November 27th (Wed.), from 13:30 to 14:30 CET.
9th Early Career Scholar meeting, January 23rd 2025 (Thurs.) from 13:30 to 14:30 CET.
10th Early Career Scholar meeting, March 26th 2025 from 13:30 to 14:30 CET.
Organizers:
Jana Brandl and Robin Schulze Waltrup