Sebastian Hübers

- Sebastian Hübers was member of the PhD students’ representation 2013-2015 -

I do my PhD at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Sociology. In my PhD, I’m analyzing the career paths of female and male university presidents. Above all, I’m looking at how their careers have been set up – by chance or on purpose – and how recruitment decisions in science are (really) being taken and reasons why there are still so few women in top positions in science. I studied Political Science with a focus on the EU, Sociology and Newer English Literature at the University of Tübingen and passed a nice study year in Pisa (Italy).

Information about Candidature
In my PhD I’m analyzing closely the structure of university as an organization and what influence this structure has on the career paths and possibilities in science. It is a fact that taking a career in science is a very strenuous and difficult path to take in Germany, today. I would like to represent the PhD-students to improve our situation at the GGG. I would like to find answers and better solutions i. e. to the following questions: How can the employment situation of research assistants be improved? Which kind of funding and financial support for PhD-students should be enlarged? How can the support of the ‘thesis committee’ be improved and simplified? How can we enhance the networking and scientific exchange of PhD-students working in the same field of study coming from different disciplines? Besides trying to find better solutions to these questions, I would like to enlarge the program of qualification measures for PhD-students, e. g. offer courses about employment rights (in science, research or other fields of work) in Germany and possibilities to research and work in other countries (e. g. other EU member states, the USA, Canada or countries in Asia).