The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) bundles top-level research and transfer at an international level, thereby creating an interdisciplinary innovation network and an excellent science and technology location. Together with its renowned partners, the BTU forms the Lausitz Science Network - an alliance of research institutions that together want to further develop the strengths of the science location Cottbus-Senftenberg and increase its visibility. Through innovative research and new teaching and learning formats, the BTU is shaping the future: with scientific findings and practice-relevant solutions, it is helping to shape the major issues of the future and transformation processes. In four profile lines - "Energy Transition and Decarbonization," "Health and Life Sciences," "Global Change and Transformation Processes," and "Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Technology" - it combines its strengths in teaching and research across institutes and faculties.
At its locations in Cottbus and Senftenberg, the BTU guarantees its students a challenging education, individual support and the opportunity to learn from and with each other with curiosity and openness. The BTU stands for an inspiring atmosphere of learning and research in a dialogical, democratic cooperation of all: The diversity of our faculty and students enables innovation and progress.

The Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences invites applications for a

PROFESSORSHIP (W3) Transculturality (Transkulturalität)

commencing on April 1, 2027.

We are looking for a personality who excels in research and teaching in the social sciences with a focus on transculturality and intercultural competence. In terms of research, the professorship should contribute to the university's main research areas and deal with the fundamentals of cultural sociology and its specializations in at least two of the following areas:

• Sociocultural transformation, community, and forms of participation
• Intersectionality (issues of justice and theories of power)
• Migration and border studies (normative and sociological aspects)
• Everyday culture and new material studies
• Culture of digitality, social action and digital technologies
• Feminist anthropology (media and traditions as influencing factors)

We are looking for:

A nationally and internationally recognized figure with experience in the field of cultural sociology, demonstrated by outstanding academic achievements, in particular through publications and independently acquired third-party funding.

An internationally visible research profile is required, in which questions relating to the aforementioned research focus areas are analyzed in a theoretically sound manner using qualitative social research methods, in particular discourse theory and narrative analysis, as well as field research and participatory research methods. Experience with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects, as well as with digitization projects, is expected. Internationalization is a high priority for the university profile of BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg, so international research experience is desirable.

The professorship is expected to represent the above-mentioned field in teaching in English and German in the master's programs in Transformation Studies, World Heritage Studies, the international program in Technoscience, Environment and Technology, and the bachelor's program in Digital Society. Offers for interdisciplinary teaching in other planning, technology, and culture-related programs are welcome. If there is no sufficient knowledge of German, the willingness to learn the German language as soon as possible is required, which ensures the cooperation in the management of the institute, the faculty and in university and non-university committees as well as the teaching of the Bachelor's degree programmes in German.

Profile

As a future professor, you can provide evidence of the following requirements in accordance with § 43 Para. 1 No. 1 to 4a Brandenburg Higher Education Act (BbgHG):

• a completed university degree in Social Sciences (including Cultural Studies),
• pedagogical aptitude,
• a special aptitude for academic work, as a rule through the outstanding quality of a doctorate, and
• a habilitation or additional academic achievements as an equivalent.

In addition, you have experience in the acquisition of third-party funding and in the implementation of third-party funded projects, whereby experience with DFG or EU projects is particularly desirable.

Your teaching experience enables excellent teaching for the subject area to be filled here. You have the ability to teach at all curricular levels from bachelor's to doctorate, to supervise theses and to support young academics. Your knowledge and experience enable you to participate in academic self-administration and in raising the profile of the faculty.

We offer

• fair and transparent appointment negotiations,
• attractive working conditions in a city with high quality of life and in relative proximity to Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig,
• a dynamically developing research location,
• support in relocation to the immediate vicinity of your place of employment,
• comprehensive advice in the dual-career service and in the area of family orientation, and
• an attractive salary with a negotiable appointment benefit.

Other duties result from the requirements set by § 44 BbgHG in conjunction with § 3 BbgHG.

Please refer to §§ 43 (1) – (4a) and 45 BbgHG for prerequisites and conditions of employment.

BTU is committed to equal opportunities and diversity and strives for a balanced gender ratio in all employee groups and gives priority to persons with severe disabilities or persons with equivalent qualifications.

Information on appointment management including the legal basis as well as the status of ongoing appointment procedures can be found at:

Please send your application with proof of qualifications, a tabular presentation of your professional career, a list of publications including the 5 most important ones, proof of pedagogical aptitude as well as a research and teaching concept for the advertised professorship by e-mail - mentioning the Reference-No: 80/26 - in a summarised PDF file (max. 7 MB) until 2026-06-17 to:

E-Mail:

Dekan der Fakultät Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft
Postal Address: BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Postfach 101344, 03013 Cottbus

When sending your application by unencrypted e-mail, please be aware of the risks regarding the confidentiality and integrity of your application content and please also note the data protection information on the BTU website.

For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz, Tel. +49 (0) 355 692135 / email: .

The BTU carries the seal of quality of The German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband, in short DHV). She is thus honored for her fair and transparent negotiations on the appointment of new professors.