History of the ZeS in the years 1985-1995

1985 - 1989
1990 - 1995

1990 - 1995

1990

Buhr, Petra; Ludwig, Monika; Priester, Tom, 1990: Die Bremer 10 % - Stichprobe von Sozialhilfeakten. Konstruktion und Auswertungsperspektiven, Arbeitspapiere des Zentrum für Sozialpolitik/1/1990, Bremen: Zentrum für SozialpolitikFirst ZeS Working Paper is published
Excerpt from the abstract: Profound societal changes relating to poverty and social welfare have, above all in the past decade, come to the attention of at least a broader professional audience. In parallel, the almost inevitably immense deficit of German poverty research and poverty reports - thereby affecting both their theoretical and empirical support - has become clearer. Many efforts have simultaneously been made to remedy this deficit. In this regard, social policy research in the Federal Republic of Germany now has a new and unique data source. Since 1983 the State of Bremen has continually established a 10% sample of all welfare recipients' records: this sample is currently comprised of around 10,000 records and increases each year by about 1,000 cases.
Using a model approach, this sample for the very first time opens up the possibility to establish a comprehensive report on poverty while constructing new paths in poverty research. A special benefit to the data, which is obtainable through the sample, is that it uses time-related individual data; better said: it makes use of process-produced, continuous, and individual longitudinal data.
Published as: Buhr, Petra; Ludwig, Monika; Priester, Tom, 1990: Die Bremer 10 % - Stichprobe von Sozialhilfeakten. Konstruktion und Auswertungsperspektiven, ZeS Working Paper 1/1990, Bremen: Centre for Social Policy Research.

Graduate Programme "Life Course and Social Policy"
The DFG is funding the Graduate Programme "Life Course and Social Policy" (1990-1994) (Graduiertenkolleg Lebenslauf und Sozialpolitik), which has largely benefited from the efforts of ZeS. The point of departure for research and teaching in the Graduate Programme is the importance of social, economic, and demographic structural change for individual life courses, social policy institutions, and social governance. Structural change has 'de-standardised' life courses and - relatedly - given considerable rise to problems for social policy strategies in shaping life circumstances. Social policy institutions and their governance are not solely influenced by changes in life courses; rather social policy is also involved in shaping the "life course regime". The thematic focus of the Graduate Programme "Life Course and Social Policy" is the reciprocal social and economic relationships between social policy institutions and actions of individual dynamics in life course. The opportunity to coordinate different disciplines and theoretical approaches (also related to life course and social policy) is provided through the cooperation of the Collaborative Research Centre 186 and the Centre for Social Policy Research.
Excerpt from: Sonderforschungsbereich 186 "Statuspassagen und Risikolagen im Lebensverlauf. Institutionelle Steuerung und individuelle Handlungsstrategien", 1991, Work and Result Report, July 1988 - February 1991, Bremen: University of Bremen, pp. 8-9

1991

Personal change in the fifth ZeS department
Prof. Dr. Ilona Ostner becomes (until 1994) head of the Gender Policy in the Welfare State department.

Starting in 1991, the Barkhof became (until the end of 2010) the home of the Centre for Social Policy (ZeS).Move to the "Barkhof"
Starting in 1991, the Barkhof became (until the end of 2010) the home of the Centre for Social Policy Research. Furthermore, the following cooperation partners were also located at the Barkhof: the Chamber of Labour, the Institute for Labour and the Economy (IAW) as well as The Centre for Labour and Political Education (zap).

New spokesperson
From 1991 to 1994 Ilona Ostner succeeds Wilfried Schmähl as spokesperson at the Centre for Social Policy Research.

Constituent meeting of the advisory board at the Center for Social Policy Research in Bremen on May 16, 1991
The board is composed of established representatives of socio-political research and practice:

  • Prof. Dr. Anthony B. Atkinson (London School of Economics and Political Science, London)
  • Dipl. Volksw. Ulf Fink (Member of the Bundestag, Bonn)
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dirk Henke (Technical University of Berlin)
  • Prof. Dr. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (Universiy of Bielefeld)
  • Prof. Dr. B. Anita Pfaff (International Institute for Empirical Social Economy, Stadtbergen)
  • Dr. Henning Scherf (Senator for Education and Science, Art and Sport, Bremen)


The ZeS Opening Ceremony

The ZeS Opening Ceremony took place on December 3, 1991. Anita B. Pfaff gave the opening presentation entitled "Between Selfishness and Solidarity: Social Utopias and Political Pragmatism".
Published as: Pfaff, Anita B., 1992: Zwischen Eigennutz und Solidarität: Soziale Utopien und politischer Pragmatismus, ZeS Working Paper 11/1992, Bremen: Center for Social Policy Research

1993

Meeting of the advisory board at the Center for Social Policy Research in Bremen on May 26 and 27, 1993
The board is composed of established representatives of socio- political research and practice:

  • Prof. Dr. Anthony B. Atkinson (Faculty of Economics and Politics, Cambridge University, UK)
  • Dipl. Volksw. Ulf Fink (Chair of the Christian Democratic Employees' Association CDA, Vice-Chair of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB))
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dirk Henke (University of Hannover)
  • Dr. Hans- Christoph Hoppensack (Council of State, Senator for Health, Youth and Social Affairs, Bremen)
  • Prof. Dr. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (University of Bielefeld)
  • Prof. Dr. Bernd Baron von Maydell (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich)
  • Prof. Dr. B. Anita Pfaff (International Institute for Empirical Social Economy, Stadtbergen)

1994

Change of spokesperson
After Ilona Ostner's appointment in Göttingen, Rainer Müller succeeds as spokesperson for the Centre for Social Policy Research and remains in this capacity until 2007.