Changing World
In Focus
Building on successful collaborative research projects, the newly established Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS) aims to bring together expertise from different fields of research and promote inter- and transdisciplinary uncertainty research. Learn more
In the Joint Institute for Individualisation in a Changing Environment (JICE), Researchers investigate individualisation in changing environments in an interdisciplinary discourse of natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. Learn more
Societies and individuals are subject to permanent change - their natural, technical and social environments are becoming more diverse, interconnected and globalised. Immanent interactions lead to a complex interplay, stability cannot be taken for granted. Change generates innovation and uncertainty. Since its founding, Bielefeld University has distinguished itself by its interdisciplinary and scientifically networked examination of the transformation of societies and individuals in all regions of the world and their natural environments. It focuses its research in this area within numerous interdisciplinary research networks. In doing so, it seeks a scientific exchange that transcends borders and combines methods and theories in innovative ways so that knowledge of change can also be gained under conditions of uncertainty.
- Faculties Involved
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
- Faculty of Educational Science
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
- Medical School OWL
- Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science
- Faculty of Sociology
- Central Academic Institutes and Other Academic Institutes Involved
- Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
- Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM)
- Bielefeld School of Education (BiSEd)
- Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW)
- CIAS (Center for Interamerican Studies)
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG)
- Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (ISoS)
- Institute for Technological Innovation, Market Development and Entrepreneurship (iTIME)
- Institute for World Society Studies (IW)
- Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZG)
- Major Contributing Projects and Initiatives
current projects:
- CRC 1646 Linguistic Creativity in Communication (DFG)
- CRC-TRR 212 A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction (DFG)
- RTG 2951 Cross-border Labour Markets (DFG)
- RTG 2865 CUDE: Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies (DFG)
- RTG 2650 Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being in the World (DFG)
- RTG 2225 World politics (DFG)
- PREDICT - The Future of Prediction: The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing (ERC Advanced Grant)
- INTERSECT - Migration trajectories, natural experiments and effects of small-area contexts on health: a privacy-preserving linkage study of routine and primary data among resettlement refugees (ERC Consolidator Grant)
- COMFAM - Linked Lives: Consequences of Long-distance Commuting for the Health of Family Members (ERC Consolidator Grant)
- REASONSF1RST - The Structure of Normativity (ERC Starting Grant)
- GYNVEPI - Toward an epidemiology of gynaecological violence (ERC Starting Grant)
- InChangE: Individualisation in Changing Environments (MKW NRW Profilbildung 2020)
- ConflictA - Conflict Academy (BMBF)
- Center for Advanced Latin American Studies - CALAS (BMBF)
- Resarch Institute for Social Cohesion (BMBF)
- Turning Land into Capital. Historical Conjunctures of the (Re-)Production of Wealth in Latin America from the 19th to the 21st Century (VolkswagenStiftung)
- SOEP@UBi: Leibniz ScienceCampus SOEP RegioHub at Bielefeld University (Leibniz Association)
- Ranking according to DFG Funding Atlas 2024