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After nine years, the DFG’s funding for the Doing Transitions Research Training Group will expire by the end of 2025. During this period, three cohorts of doctoral students and three postdocs have completed the research training group. Research questions and findings have been presented at four international conferences and discussed with national and international scientists. A series of publications has been launched by Barbara Budrich Publishers (https://shop.budrich.de/produkt/reihe-reflexive-uebergangsforschung/) and the perspective of reflexive transition research has been disseminated in a large number of other publications.

We say thanks to all with whom we have been in exchange during this period. However, neither the publication series nor the theoretical and methodological considerations of such reflexive transition research have been completed!

This website will therefore continue to be the place where our work can be followed for some time to come …  

The international conference „Situating Transitions: New Horizons in Research of Life Course Transitions“, which will take place on 6-8 October 2025 at the University of Tübingen, marks the final event of the collaborative research training group Doing Transitions, funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) since 2017.

With this conference, we take up the ongoing debate on reflexive research of life course transitions. In particular, we want to open transition studies for global south perspectives and discuss to what extent neighbouring fields of research such as gender, family, or educational studies benefit from reflexive transition studies. The program features keynote lectures by Raka Ray, Elizabeth Shove, Felipe Torres, Maria Keil, and Kevin Stützel, as well as 46 presentations in twelve panel sessions, offering a rich and diverse academic experience.

More information about the program and the registration procedure see here.

“Relational Perspectives on the Life Course” was the 3rd international conference of the research training group, which took place from May, 10th-12th, 2023 at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main. See a conference report in the issue of the Journal for Sociology of Education and Socialization, 4/2023. A big thank you to Kaisa Harju and Mari Vuorisalo from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, who participated at the conference and wrote this report.

The 3^rd Doing Transitions International Conference will address “Relational Perspectives on the Life Course” and aims at bringing together the Doing Transitions research group with other researchers concerned with conducting research on life course transitions in a reflexive and relational perspective. The concept of relationality will be discussed in terms of different theoretical dimensions and methodological aspects of transitions across the life course. We are looking forward to exiting lectures and keynotes e.g. from Daniela Grunow (Goethe-University), Eric Widmer (University of Geneva), Silke van Dyk (University of Jena) and Rick A. Settersten Jr. (Oregon State University).

CONFERENCE DATES & VENUE:

Wednesday, May 10th to Friday, May 12th, 2023

Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Campus Westend, Casino-building, 1rst floor (Campus map)

The conference venue is accessible without barriers.

PROGRAM:

Here you can find a short overview about the program: Conference flyer

Here you can find the extended program with detailed information about the presentations, chairs, discussants and venues.

REGISTRATION:

For attendance, please register here until May 4th, 2023.

Attendance is conditional on payment of a contribution to expenses of 30,- Euro in advance. For participants interested in joining the conference dinner at Thursday evening (50,- Euro for food and beverages) contribution to expenses is 80,- Euro in advance (until May 4th, 2023).

Please note: You will receive an automatically confirmation of the registration platform, but the official confirmation from the conference team will be sent after payment has been received on the university account.

POSSIBILITIES FOR ACCOMMODATION:

Please check here to find a list of accommodations nearby the conference venue. Some of them have a special rate for our conference participants.

The proceedings of the International Conference “Doing Transitions in the Life Course. Discourses, Practices, Institutions, Subjects”, which took place in February 2020, has been published and is available in open access on the Springer Link website. Further information is available here.

The 3rd International Conference of the research training group “Doing Transitions” will be held from May, 10-12, 2023 in Frankfurt/Germany and focusses on “Relational Perspectives on the Life Course”. Interested applicants are now asked to submit abstracts until November 1rst, 2022.

The detailed call as well as the details for submitting the abstract can be found here!

We are looking forward to exciting submissions!