GIGA Doctoral Programme

Learn more about the activities of our Doctoral Researchers in the past month.

Cecilia Natalie Strom joined the GIGA as a Research Fellow at the Institute for African Affairs in October 2023. The working title of her dissertation is “Individual Targeted Sanctions Reconsidered: The Impact of Individual Sanctions on Elite Networks and Conflict Intensity.” Learn more about Natalie in this interview.

Learn more about the activities of our Doctoral Researchers in the past month. Find out in which conferences they partcipated and what pieces were published in the last month.

Dr. Anna Fünfgeld receives the Arnold Bergstraesser Prize 2024 for her outstanding dissertation “No Power to Change? Energy Hegemony and Trasformismo in Indonesia.“

This conference brings together GIGA doctoral researchers and invited early career researchers to critically explore and reflect on the ethical and practical aspects of conducting (doctoral) research with the so-called “Global South”.

Several of our researchers presented their latest research findings at the ECPR General Conference. Learn more about the experience from our Doctoral Researcher Jayane Maia and Research Fellow Martin Acheampong in this interview.

Riccarda Flemmer, Alumna of the GIGA Doctoral Programme, is currently a Junior-Professor in “Political Struggles in the Global South” at the University of Tübingen. In this interview, she gives insights into her current job and time as a Doctoral Researcher at the GIGA.

For her exceptional dissertation on governance and violence in Colombia and El Salvador, Dr. Viviana García Pinzón has won first place in the prestigious ADLAF Prize. Her research, now published as by Bristol University Press, offers insights into the dynamics of local order and violence in Latin America's peripheral cities.

Svenja Schöneich, Alumna of the GIGA Doctoral Programme, is a Policy Advisor for Resource Policies, Mineral Supply Chains and Corporate Accountability at Germanwatch. In this interview, she gives insights into her current job and time as a Doctoral Researcher at the GIGA.

Learn more about the activities of our Doctoral Researchers in the past month.

Cecilia Natalie Strom joined the GIGA as a Research Fellow at the Institute for African Affairs in October 2023. The working title of her dissertation is “Individual Targeted Sanctions Reconsidered: The Impact of Individual Sanctions on Elite Networks and Conflict Intensity.” Learn more about Natalie in this interview.

Learn more about the activities of our Doctoral Researchers in the past month. Find out in which conferences they partcipated and what pieces were published in the last month.