Research

Prof Dr Timothy Nunan (UR) and Dr Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds) have been awarded a project funded by the DFG and UK Research and Innovation's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) on ‘Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics’. The press release can be found here.

The Regensburg interdisciplinary research cluster on corruption in Southeast Europe (DFG joint project) with the participation of Prof Dr Klaus Buchenau will continue its work for a further three years. The press release can be found here.

Prof. Dr Timothy Nunan (DIMAS) and Prof. Dr Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS) have received a grant of €20,000 from the Gerda and Hermann Weber Foundation to organise a Hermann Weber conference on historical communism research. The conference will take place in 2027 and will be dedicated to the topic ‘Communist regimes and the world economy since the 1970s’.

Please report new projects at any time to the Dean of Research (katelijne.schiltz@ur.de)

Dean of Research

Prof Dr Katelijne Schiltz

Chair of Musicology

katelijne.schiltz@ur.de

According to the basic regulations of the University of Regensburg, it is the task of the Dean of Research:

• to work towards coordinating the academic activities of the faculty with regard to the university's desired profile.
• to support and advise the faculty in the submission of applications for third-party funding.
• to represent the interests of the faculty in the distribution of research-related funds.

Professors and researchers at the Faculty of Philosophy, Art, History and Society carry out a number of research projects, details about which are typically located at the websites of individual institutes and/or professorships. Below you can find a list of cooperative projects carried out between institutes and professorships.

• Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS)

• German Organ Sermon Prints between 1600 and 1800 - Cataloguing,Textual Classification, Evaluation

• DFG Research Training Group 2337 ‘Metropolitanism in the Pre-Modern Era’

• Leibniz ScienceCampus ‘Europe and America’

• Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg (GS OSES/UR)

• Art History Doctoral Programme AISTHESIS

• Medieval Centre ‘Forum Mittelalter’ 

• SelVi@ur - Virtual and Interactive Support for Self-Study Phases during Lectures

• Study Specialisation ‘Art and Law’

• Thematic Network ‘Seeing and Understanding’

• Centre for Commemorative Culture

• Centre for Classical Studies

A large number of research projects are carried out at the Faculty PKGG, which can usually be found on the website of the respective institute or professorship.

The list of projects listed below is updated on an ongoing basis:

• Astronomy's Glass Archive: Photographic Practices at the Obervatory, 1850-1950  (DFG project)
• German organ sermon prints between 1600 and 1800 - cataloguing, text recording, evaluation (DFG project)
• Research Training Group 2337 ‘Metropolitanism in the Pre-Modern Era’ (DFG-GRK)
• Centre for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies - Thinking Space Ukraine (DU) (DAAD-funded)
• Styles of Colour and Modes of Art Centric Lighting: Painting Lighting between LED Lighting Technology and Perceptual Aesthetics (DFG project)
• Regensburg Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Corruption in Southeast Europe (DFG project)
• Transitions: Examining Changing Regimes of Sexuality in Post-Soviet Muslim Republics (funded by DFG and AHRC)

Please report new projects at any time to the Dean of Research (katelijne.schiltz@ur.de).

General Information

Research funding and third-party funding (Department IV/5)

Third-party funding incentive system of the University of Regensburg

Promotion of women at the University of Regensburg

List of funding opportunities at the University of Regensburg

Promotion of young researchers

Programme for the promotion of young academics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts, History and Social Sciences

At its meeting on 8 May 2024, the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts, History and Social Sciences approved a programme for the promotion of early career researchers at the faculty using faculty funds from the DFG programme lump sum. The aim of the programme is to promote the mobility of early career researchers by subsidising active conference participation. Further information can be found in the information sheet here.

See also:
- Conference travel programme of the DAAD
- Lecture travel programme of the DAAD
- Grants from the Friends of the University of Regensburg e.V.

PUR - Doctoral Programme of the Faculties of Arts and Humanities
The doctoral college serves to optimise doctoral studies at the Faculties of Philosophy at the University of Regensburg. It promotes the research achievements of doctoral candidates admitted to the doctoral college and serves to structure and internationalise doctoral studies as well as to strengthen the interdisciplinary networking of young academics.

You can access the website of the Doctoral College here.

Flyer of the doctoral programme of the Faculties of Arts and Humanities

Centre for the Promotion of Early Career Researchers (WIN)
The Centre for the Promotion of Early Career Researchers (WIN) is the cross-faculty platform for the promotion and qualification of early career researchers at the University of Regensburg.

You can find  more information about WIN here.