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Department News
05/06/2026
Dr. Nadja Dörflinger starts professorship at the sfs
Welcome to the Social Research Center at the Department for Social Sciences, Nadja Dörflinger.
04/21/2026
UA Ruhr establishes three research communities on key future topics.
The three universities are pooling their strengths in research consortia focused on education, sustainability, and diversity.
04/17/2026
Research Award Winner Speaks on Ageing and Care in England
Dr. Giorgio Di Gessa, a visiting scholar at the Department of Social Sciences, will give a lecure on 29 April.
04/13/2026
Huge interest in the DGS Spring Conference, “Genders of the Social: Dialogues on the Positioning and Perspectives of Sociological Theories”, held at TU Dortmund University
Conference report “Wechselseitige Irritation” (Mutual Irritatio) published in Soziopolis
