Since winter 2007, the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy has been offering an international English-language PhD programme in International Development Studies. It is implemented by the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy on behalf of the Faculties of Geography, Law, Social Science, and Economics. Up to 10 PhD candidates are accepted to the programme annually. The programme builds on three fundamental pillars: It is a structured PhD programme with a strong interdisciplinary and international focus.
The application period for the PhD IDS Intake 2023 will start on 3 November 2022. The application deadline is 31 March 2023.
Applications have to be submitted via the online application platform:
https://public.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ps/iee
After successful defence of his PhD Thesis on Wednesday, 5th April 2023, Biswaranjan Tripura has been awarded the degree of a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.).
Foto: Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. Biswaranjan Tripura,
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein
His thesis with the title “Indigenous Peoples Negotiations, Everyday State and Development Experiences in Contemporary Tripura, Northeast India” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz and Prof. Dr. Bodhi S R. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, speaker of the PhD Programme in International Development Studies chaired the oral exam.
Foto: Prof. Dr. Shelley Feldman, Dr. Hari Purna Tripura,
Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein
His thesis with the title “The Emergence of Indigenous Activists: The Indigeneity Questions of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz and Prof. Dr. Shelley Feldman. Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein, speaker of the PhD Programme in International Development Studies chaired the oral exam.
After the successful defence of his PhD Thesis on Thursday, 9 February 2023 Abdullah Adil has been awarded the degree of a Doctor in Management and Economics. He was enrolled as a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Management and Economics and was an associate member of the PhD IDS-programme at IEE.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein and Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer supervised Mr. Adil’s theses on "The impact of higher education on the employment status and on earnings in the labor market of Afghanistan", Jun. Prof. Dr. Sanne Kruse-Becher chaired the oral exam.
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Dipl.-Ök. Britta Niklas
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