Research Groups (RGs)
Our Research Groups (RGs) provide an ideal environment for postdocs researchers to grow into leadership roles. The RGs consist of experienced postdoctoral researchers (Research Group Leaders) and their teams of two PhD candidates.
All in all, there will be ten RGs in Phase 2, two for each new Research Area. One of the two RGs for each RA is reinforced in cooperation with one of our non-university partners and with the Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH), respectively.
Lived Experiences of Violence and Coerced Livelihoods in Translocal Spaces of Conflict (VIOLET)
This research group, in cooperation with the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (bicc), explores the entanglements of violence, labour exploitation and livelihood precarity in translocal settings of armed conflict and displacement.
Power, Knowledge and Servitude at Sea (POESIS)
This research group, in cooperation with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), examines how uneven relational dependencies shift and mutate across fluid worlds, as they continue to be simultaneously contested in relation to their colonial pasts and planetary futures.