Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger: Strengthening of economical principles and Incomplementarities in institutional constellations”, (since 2008) (pre-funding of research project by University of Hamburg)
Dr. Patricia Frericks: “Post-industrial social protection: public resources, institutionalized life courses and social sustainability” (2008-2012) (Habilitation project)
Patricia Aurich, Dissertation project: “Activation policies in Europe: a new paradigm of welfare state integration?” (Dissertation project)
Kerstin Hofreuter-Gätgens: “Social Inequality and Medical Rehabilitation” (Dissertation project)
Ralf Och: “Policy-Making, Governance and Participation in local Welfare Systems in the European Multi Level System” (Dissertation project)
Marco Tiesler: Social exclusion and activation policies: The life situation of young unemployed in Germany and Great Britain (Dissertation project)
Merle Mulder: Social Inequality in Creative Cities (Dissertation project)
Rui-Rui Zhou: Cultural Policies and Civil Society in China (Dissertation project)