| 2011-2012 |
Contributing to the same two Excellence Applications in the next phase (2012-2017) of the Excellence Initiative. |
| 2005-2007 |
Co-Initiating two Excellence Applications for Bremen University in the “Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments” (a sort of RAE-exercise): a Bremen International Graduate School of the Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and a Bremen version of an Institute for Advanced Studies (BESS). The Institute failed as part of the full grant application, but BIGSSS came through in the 2007 second round. |
| July 2004 ff. |
Spokesperson of the Collaborate Research Center “Transformation of 2004 the State” in succession to Michael Zürn. |
| 2003 ff. |
Collaborative National Research Centre ‘Transformations of the State’ (TranState) approved 1 January 2003 (see www.sfb597.uni-bremen.de); TranState focuses on the interface of international and domestic politics by running some 15-17 comparative projects on state transformation after the mid-1970s using the Golden Age from the end-1950s until the early 1970s as the contrast (cf. Leibfried/Zürn 2005 below); this Center is funded with about 1.5 mio €/year for now 12 years, and employing some 65 researchers; the national DFG funding-programme aims at strengthening local Centres of Excellence. |
| 2003ff. |
Initiating with Richard Higgott (Warwick) as the hub – and the Research Center on “Transformations of the State” as a spoke – an EU Network of Excellence (NoE) on “Global Governance, Regionalization and Regulation: The Role of the EU” (GARNET); grant awarded in 2005. |
| 2000 |
Co-Initiator of the transatlantic “staatswissenschaftliche” Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) at the University of Bremen (approved June 2001 by the Volkswagen Foundation with seed money of 1.8 mio € for a period of 5 years). I am co-responsible with Karin Gottschall for the (comparative) welfare state wing of that school, which is one of its three wings – the others are “sociology of the life course” and international relations.. |
| since 1999 |
Co-Initiator of the project group preparing the application with the German National Science Foundation (= Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for a Collaborative Research Center (Sfb 597) “Transformations of the State” [TranState] (in Political Science) |
| since 1997 |
Co-Founder of the social science departments at the “Hanse-Wissenschaftskollegs” (HWK) of the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg (in Delmenhorst). |
| 1996/1997 |
Visiting Professor Stanford University, Center for European Studies |
| 1994/1995 |
Conducting two “German and American Young Scholars' Institutes” at the Center for European Studies, Harvard, Cambridge, MA/USA und at the Center for Social Policy Research at Bremen University (together with George Ross as co-convener) for the Social Science Research Council, New York, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, on “global competition and welfare states”. |
| April 1993 and June 1993 |
Participation in two one-week German social policy missions in Russia (Nishnij Nowgorod) |
| March 1993 |
Call from Bath University: Chair of social policy and administration (successor of Rudolph Klein); not accepted |
| July 1992 |
Call from Humboldt University, Berlin (social policy chair); not accepted |
| 1992 |
Member of the Rockefeller Foundation's Working Group on US-Welfare after the Year 2000 |
| 1991-1992 |
Visiting Fellow with the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (comparative project “Welfare State Building in the EC and the US”) |
| 1991ff. |
Director, Center for Social Policy Research |
| 1990-1991 |
Chair Graduate Program on “Life Course and Social Policy” |
| 1990 |
Co-founder of a three year graduate studies program on “Life Course and Social Policy” financed by the DFG (Graduiertenkolleg) |
| 1990 |
Renegotiation of the Chair at Bremen University due to an outside call |
| 1989-1991 |
Deputy Director, Center for Social Policy Research |
| 1989 |
Visiting Fellow The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., and Law School, University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 1988-1989 |
Visiting Fellow with the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 1988-2001 |
Cofounder and then Codirector of the Collaborative Research Center “Status Passages and Risks in the Life Course” (mainly in Sociology) funded by the German National Science Foundation (pertains to some 15-20 bigger projects employing some 50 people and receiving grant support of some 1 mio €/year); the nationally-funded DFG-programme aims at strengthening local Centres of Excellence. |
| 1988 ff. |
Director of the Division “Institutions and History” of the Center for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen, a center then consisting of five Divisions: Theory (Claus Offe), Economy (Winfried Schmähl), Gender (Ilona Ostner), Social Medicine (Rainer Müller) and my division |
| 1987 |
Participated in founding the Center for Social Policy Research at Bremen University, which was supported with about € 3 million by the Volkswagen Foundation for a period of five years (“seed money”). |
| 1986 |
Social policy field trip in the U.S. together with a group of German experts and journalists (Washington, New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles) |
| 1985-1986 |
Research fellow and guest professor at the International Management Institute of Berlin's Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1985 |
Research stay at the Department of Government, Cornell University |
| 1985-1988 |
Founder of the Center for Social Policy Research at Bremen University (supported by the State of Bremen, Bremen University and the Volkswagen Foundation) |
| 1983 |
Visiting Scholar at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (funded by the German National Science Foundation = Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |
| 1982 |
Visiting Professor at the Law School of the University of California, Berkeley, CA |
| 1982 |
Visiting Researcher at the Department of Social Administration of the London School of Economics |
| 1982 |
Visiting Professor at the Cornell Law School |
| 1981-1988 |
Founder and Research Director of the “Center for Social Policy and Social Movements” at the University of Bremen (“Forschungsschwerpunkt Reproduktionsrisiken, soziale Bewegungen und Sozialpolitik”) |
| 1979 |
Visiting Professor at Washington University, St. Louis, MI |
| 1978 |
Stay in the U.S. to do a comparative study of administrative welfare practices in the U.S. and West Germany and to evaluate President Carter's welfare reform efforts funded by the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 1977 |
Stay in the U.S. to study the practice of welfare politics in California and New York funded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States |
| 1976 |
Research stay combined with some teaching at the invitation of the Department of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| since Oct.1974 |
Professor for “Social Policy and Social Administration” at the University of Bremen, major areas of work: health policy; poverty politics; history of social policy; comparative studies in welfare state development |
| 1972 |
Research stay at the Center for West European Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (John F. Kennedy Fellowship) |
| 1970-1974 |
Intern in the practical phase of legal training in the Kammergerichtsbezirk Berlin-West |
| 1970-1974 |
Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of the Free University of Berlin in the area of “Staatslehre, Staatssoziologie, Verfassungsrecht” |
| 1969-1970 |
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main |
