Georg Eckert PhD Program 2025 – Call for Applications

What: Introduction by renowned experts to theories and methods used in educational media research; with a focus on (i) a broad spectrum of theoretical approaches ranging from media studies to memory research and corpus linguistics, (ii) different types of educational media from textbooks to games and AI, (iii) qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis of (iv) media and media practices. (Programme)

When: 8–12 December 2025

Where: Leibniz Institute for Educational Media, Georg-Eckert-Institute, Freisestraße 1, 38118 Braunschweig, Germany

Application deadline: 15 October 2025
Decision: 1 November 2025
Required documents

• Personal details: name, supervising institution, academic degree(s), academic discipline, commencement date of doctorate
• Brief description of your doctoral project (max. 5000 characters), in which you briefly state your research question, explain its relevance, define the field of research to which you are contributing, identify the gap your research fills, and provide information about the methods you will use to collect and evaluate data as well as about first results, if available.

Send to: christophe(at)gei.de

Participation in the program is free of charge. Travel expenses cannot be covered. However, three participants can stay at the institute's guest house at no cost.