Publications

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, students increasingly reported emotional exhaustion in reaction to various stressful experiences during their studies. Data collected by universities’ psychological counseling centers, however, show that this issue has become even more virulent since early 2020. Therefore, the question arises as to which conditioning factors have an impact on mental health problems among students. The present article aims to contribute to an answer, presenting the results of a student survey that was part of the BMBF research project “Resilience and academic success in STEM subjects (ReSt@MINT)”.

Despite the increasing use of the statistical programming language R in statistics and data analysis (SDA), its implementation in communication science education is limited. Experiences, recommendations, and a critical exchange are therefore scarce. The following contribution addresses this very gap. At the Department of Journalism and Communication Research of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, we have transitioned the SDA education to R. We share our concept and demonstrate its success. The results of an online survey indicate that students perceived most teaching elements as helpful, recognizing both opportunities and challenges. We present key learnings designed to assist others in integrating R into SDA education.

This article deals with governance structures and practices in the field of vocational education and training. Based on the focus chapter of the National Education Report 2024, the field of vocational education and training is initially interpreted broadly, including vocational orientation, vocational training, higher education and continuing vocational education and training. Following an outline of the international governance debate, the governance structures and practices in the field of vocational education and training are presented. The paper concludes by outlining how the conceptual instruments of governance research could be used to empirically assess the functionality of the governance of vocational education and training.

The project Monotoring Appointment Procedures (BerBeo) is a research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and carried out by the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies GmbH (DZHW). The project analysed (procedural) quality assurance in appointment procedures for professors at German (state) universities through officers for appointment procedures. Officers for appointment procedures are defined as persons who are responsible for the procedural quality assurance of appointment procedures for professors and – depending on the implementation of their position – may also perform other tasks to support the decision-making [...] Full Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:berbeo:1.0.0

On the basis of an analysis of maximally contrasting cases (universities, disciplines), it was investigated how the change in the appointment procedure affects the relationship between the actors involved and their enactment of institutional logics. Eight universities and four universities of applied sciences with different profiles were selected for this purpose. The analysis focussed on the subjects of sociology/social sciences (universities and universities of applied sciences), mechanical engineering (universities and universities of applied sciences), physics (universities) and medicine (universities) in order to cover subject-specific differences (with regard to tasks, [...] Full Abstract: https://doi.org/10.21249/DZHW:lib2016:2.0.0