The end of the academic career? A qualitative study on the status passage to professorial retirement

目前对学术生涯的研究表明，学术领域的准入和成功问题得到了高度重视。当它专注于德国的学术生涯时，尤其如此。相比之下，对大学教授后来职业发展的研究，例如换大学或因年龄而退休，则相对被忽视。基于这一观察，“学术生涯的终结？”《教授退休状态通道的定性研究》通过对大学教授（年龄相关）退休的调查，解决了这一相关的研究空白。特别是，我们感兴趣的是与他们退休有关的实践和法规的纠缠，个人处理和接受这种状态通道。由于很少有关于这个主题的实证研究，我们的项目遵循定性的方法，以保持开放、灵活和适应性。

Current research on academic careers shows a strong emphasis on questions of access to and success in the academic field. This is especially true when it focusses on academic careers in Germany. In comparison, research on later career developments of university professors, e.g. changing university or age-related retirement is relatively neglected. Based on this observation the project “The end of the academic career? A qualitative study on the status passage to professorial retirement” deals with this relevant research gap by investigating the (age-related) retirement of university professors. In particular, we are interested in the entanglements of practices and regulations related to their retirement, the individual handling of and coming to terms with this status passage. Since little has been empirically researched on this topic, our project follows a qualitative approach in order to be open, flexible and adaptive.