Promoting young academics
The promotion of young academics plays a central role in the self-image and work of our research center.
The RCA offers various funding and qualification opportunities for early career researchers – from final theses to postdoctoral projects. In particular, the doctoral projects carried out at the RCA form a central core area of our research work and at the same time emphasise our interdisciplinary profile. Two doctoral scholarships included in our basic budget ensure the continuous further qualification of young academics. In addition, doctoral students complete their doctorates at the RCA on (externally funded) positions or with external funding. The Romani Rose-Fellowship financed by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation also enables us to fund doctoral or post-doctoral projects for up to one year. Applications can be submitted annually. The recruitment of academics from the Sinti and Roma communities is an important personnel and research policy concern for us.
Students have the opportunity to take advantage of supervision for term papers, Bachelor's and Master's theses from the courses offered by the RCA faculty. These theses also serve to open up new subject areas and sources. In addition to academic staff, doctoral students and Romani Rose-Fellows also have the opportunity to gain teaching experience. Several assistants have already been recruited for the research centre from the courses offered in the past.
Supervision of all types of work at the RCA takes place in a collegial and appreciative atmosphere and is based on intensive and constant dialogue. Doctoral students can publish their work as a monograph in the publication series ‘Interdisciplinary Studies in Antigypsyism’. In addition, young academics are given the opportunity to publish specialised articles in conference/collection volumes in our publication series. The RCA also specifically acquires collection objects that are of great importance for individual doctoral projects and can thus be directly accessed and analysed as sources on site.
