Dr. Julian Eckl
St.Gallen Collegium seeks fellows for the academic year 2027-2028. Performance / The What, How, and (m/w/d)
Fellows are expected to be in residence in St.Gallen or in its environs during the academic year 2027/2028 and spend their work days on the campus of the University of St.Gallen. They will be provided shared office space and access to all campus amenities. During their Collegium year, fellows must be free from any obligations at their home institutions so that they can focus on their research in St.Gallen.
Fellows will be able to dedicate two-thirds of their Collegium time to their own research projects related to the annual theme. The Collegium will also make sure to introduce the fellows to St.Gallen faculty who share their interests and whose research endeavors might be relevant to them.
In addition, the seven research fellows will spend a third of their time establishing and developing a joint project with the support of a St.Gallen faculty member who acts as convenor and moderator. Fellows are thus expected to interact regularly, to be willing and keen on learning from each other, to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, and to engage with invited faculty and guests who can contribute to the joint project.
St.Gallen Collegium will organize events throughout the academic year to engage with the University community and the public. Fellows are expected to join select events, to present and discuss their own work as well as aspects of the joint project.
The working language at St.Gallen Collegium is English.
The call for “more performance” has returned with force across European business and politics as a reaction to perceived decreasing productivity of many economies. It simultaneously reflects changing values and preferences of their societies as to what, how, and why shall be optimized. Companies announce this openly: Nestlé declares it wants to be more performance-driven; UBS insists that performance must again be at the center. Politics has followed suit. The Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband warns of a spreading culture of Lifestyle Freizeit. The German CDU campaignsn Leistung muss sich wieder lohnen — performance must pay. Commentators demand “work instead of woke.” The word does considerable heavy lifting. The concept itself is rarely examined.