Paper short abstract:

I will highlight the pratices and narratives that derive form the expectation at German Univercities to count and to register pdh-students, what hasen´t been done before. The actual call for “quality assurance” reinforces competitive formats that influence the pratice of everyday working life.

Paper long abstract:

Contrary to many other european countries Germany has no centralized system to register phd-candidates what is resently the subjet of intense debates from univercity management but also politicians; discussed over all as a big problem for evaluation, for applications for extra grands or so called elite applications and international rakings.

In summer 2012 I provided Interviews with 18 Persons of 6 different univercities(embedded in a bigger survey on the possibilities to register phd-candidates, iFQ/Berlin) on the formats and the pratices of the registraction of phd-candidates. The research shows, that the intaglement of individuel working patterns, the struture of the diverce audit cultures and the pressure to evaluate are very complex and divers in the institutions itselfs but even more between different univercities in different regions and "Bundesländer". In my presentation I will the pratices and narratives that derive form the expectation to count, to evaluate and therefore to register pdh-students. I will show how the "need to count" creates as well pratices of restistence, as of integration and competition I will show how the social actors involved compete for different resources and how the call for "quality assurance" (significantly increased since the "Fall Guttenberg"") reinforces competitive formats, which are not solely provided by the administration of the Univercity, but are created, invented or put forward by different individuals in the pratice of everyday working life.