The LEAD Graduate School & Research Network invites applications for up to five 3-year doctoral positions

The LEAD Graduate School & Research Network (www.lead.uni-tuebingen.de) for Learning, Educational Achievement and Life Course Development, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State governments, invites applications for Up to five 3-year doctoral positions as of October 2017.

Education and its outcomes being essential to the welfare of a society and its members, the goal of LEAD is to contribute relevant findings to several key questions in evidence-based education. As an integrated research and training program, LEAD aims at excellent research and academic careers for young scien-tists at the intersection between Empirical Educational Research and the neighboring disciplines of (1)Cognitive, Social, and Motivational Psychology, (2)Neuroscience and Informatics, (3) Clinical and Per-sonality Psychology, (4) Language and Linguistics, and (5) Sociology and Economics.