Bernd Kleimann is head of the Research Area "Governance in Higher Education and Science" at DZHW. He received his postdoctoral qualification (habilitation) in sociology with particular regard to higher education research and organisational sociology from the University of Kassel in 2015. In 2000 he was awarded a doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Gießen. He studied philosophy and German literature at the Universities of Hagen, Marburg, and Tübingen and worked as researcher at the University of Hamburg. Before joining DZHW in 2014, he conducted research in the area of e-learning and higher education development at HIS GmbH in Hannover. He teaches at the University of Kassel and as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Osnabrück.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Kleimann
Research Area Governance in Higher Education and Science
Head of Department
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Academic research fields
Higher education institutions (with special regard to formal organisations), social theory and communication theory, organisational sociology, governance in higher education
List of projects
List of presentations & conferences
170 Übereinstimmungen gefunden / 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90 91-105 106-120 121-135 136-150 151-165 166-170
since 05/2020
Professorship "Governance in Higher Education and Science" at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Kassel and Head of the research area 3 Governance in Higher Education and Science at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
01/2016 - 05/2020
Acting Head of research area 3 Governance in Higher Education and Science at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies
02/2015
Habilitation in Sociology at the University of Kassel
seit 10/2014
Researcher at the DZHW, research unit Governance, Financing, Evaluation
11/2013 - 10/2016
BMBF research project "LiBerTas - Performance Evaluation in Appointment Procedures - the Changing Tradition of Hiring Professors in Academia"
since 2010
Lecturer in the Masters's program "Science and Society" (Leibniz University Hannover)
2010 - 05/2013
DFG research project "University presidents as institutional entrepreneurs" (DFG reference GZ KL 1344/2-1) in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius (Leibniz University Hannover)
seit 2009
Researcher and project manager in the "Higher Education Management" department of HIS GmbH, now DZHW since 9/2013 (HIS-HE)
2006 - 2009
Deputy Head of the department "Research and Teaching Management" at HIS GmbH
2001 - 2006
Researcher at HIS GmbH
2000 - 2001
Freelance management consultant
2000
Postdoctoral scholarship (DFG Research Training Group Hamburg)
2000
Doctorate in philosophy at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen
seit 1999
Lecturer (Universities of Rostock, FU Berlin, Hannover, Hildesheim)
1999
Researcher at the department of Educational Sciences at the University of Hamburg
1994 - 1997
Doctoral fellow (DFG Research Training Group Hamburg)
1994
Masters's degree (University of Tübingen), with distinction
- Board member of INCHER-Kassel
- Member of the board of trustees of the Center for Science and Research Management Speyer
- Co-editor of the journal Hochschulmanagement
- Member of the scientific advisory board of Wi-Ho Forschung
- Fellow at Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS)
