Position
Dr. Nicolai Götze
Dr. Nicolai Götze
Address
Lange Laube 32
30159 Hannover
30159 Hannover
Building
Room
Research Staff
Leibniz Research Centre Science and Society (LCSS)
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Short CV
since 04/2025
Research associate in the DFG project “Multiple Competition in Research and Teaching: The US and South Korea as International Comparison Cases” at the LCSS, Leibniz University Hannover
since 04/2025
Senior researcher at INCHER at the University of Kassel, responsible for research area innovation and transfer
07/2024 – 03/2025
Scientific coordinator of the DFG research group “Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System - Internationalization and International Comparison” and research associate in the DFG-funded project “Multiple Competition in Research and Teaching” at the INCHER, University of Kassel
2024
Doctor of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Kassel Title of dissertation: “Institutional Filters: The German Higher Education System between Persistence and Reform” (grade: summa cum laude, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken, reviewers: Prof. Dr. Bernd Kleimann and Prof. Dr. Uwe Schimank)
06/2021 – 06/2024
Research associate in the DFG-funded project “Multiple Competition in Research and Teaching,” subproject in the DFG Research Group “Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System” at INCHER, University of Kassel
01/2021 – 01/2022
Research associate in the project “APIKS Austria” at INCHER, University of Kassel, in cooperation with Danube University Krems
07/2020 – 12/2020
Deputy coordinator of the research focus “Innovation and Transfer” at INCHER, University of Kassel
08/2016 – 06/2020
Research associate in the BMBF-funded project “The Academic Profession in Knowledge Societies” (APIKS) at INCHER, University of Kassel
06/2015 – 07/2016
Research associate in the BMBF-funded project “Quality Assurance in Studies and Teaching through Accreditation and Evaluation Procedures” at INCHER, University of Kassel
04/2015 – 05/2015
Research assistant at INCHER, University of Kassel
2015
M.A. Sociology and Social Research at Philipps University of Marburg
05/2014 – 03/2015
Student assistant at INCHER, University of Kassel
03/2014 – 04/2014
Internship at INCHER, Universität Kassel
2011
B.A. Social Sciences at Philipps University of Marburg
Minors: Political Science, Economics
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Research areas
- Higher Education Research and Sociology of Science
- Organizational Sociology
- Innovation Studies, especially knowledge and technology transfer
- Comparative research (especially country and organizational comparisons)
- Sociological theory
- Mixed Methods
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Journal articles (peer reviewed)
Georg Krücken, Nicolai Götze, Tim Seidenschnur (2025): Lions, Game Players and Niche Providers: Universities' Positioning in Funding Competitions in Germany. Higher Education Quarterly 79(1).
Seidenschnur, Tim; Götze, Nicolai; Krücken, Georg (2024): Multiple roles of the state – federal states and their roles in how universities compete in Germany. Studies in Higher Education, 1 10 (online first).doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2392660
Götze, Nicolai (2023): Temporale Komplexität von Ausschreibungswettbewerben – Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen in Exzellenzinitiative und dem Qualitätspakt Lehre, Das Hochschulwesen 71 (3), 85 - 93
Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai; Steinhardt, Isabel; Schindler, Janosch (2022): (Be)Werten im organisationsabhängigen Interaktionssystem: das Beispiel Peer Review in Akkreditierungsverfahren von Hochschulen und Studiengängen. Zeitschrift für Evaluation, 21(2), 217–244. doi.org/10.31244/zfe.2022.02.03
Götze, Nicolai; Krücken, Georg; Seidenschnur, Tim (2022): Reflexionspfade von Ausschreibungswettbewerben. Die Exzellenzinitiative und der Qualitätspakt Lehre im Vergleich. Das Hochschulwesen 1+2, 49–59. Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai & Müller, Lars (2022): A study of 25 years of publication outputs in the German academic profession. Scientometrics 127, 1–28 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04216-2
Götze, Nicolai; Carvalho, Teresa; Aarrevaara, Timo (2021): Academics’ Societal Engagement in Diverse European Binary Higher Education Systems: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis. Higher Education Policy 34 (1), 88–109. DOI: 10.1057/s41307-020-00222-w
Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai (2021): Academics’ Societal Engagement in Cross-country Perspective. Large-n in Small-n Comparative Case Studies. Higher Education Policy 3(4), S. 1–17. DOI: 10.1057/s41307-021-00227-z
Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai; Jones, Glen A.; Bilyalov, Darkhan; Panova, Anna; Stephenson, Grace Karram; Yudkevich, Maria (2021): Does Vertical University Stratification Foster or Hinder Academics’ Societal Engagement? Findings from Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Russia. In: Higher Education Policy 34 (1), 66–87. DOI: 10.1057/s41307-020-00219-5
Steinhardt, Isabel, Schneijderberg, Christian, Götze, Nicolai, Baumann, Janosch, Krücken, Georg (2017). Mapping the quality assurance of teaching and learning in higher education: the emergence of a specialty? Higher Education 74, 221–237 doi:10.1007/s10734-016-0045-5
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Book contributions
Götze, Nicolai; Krücken, Georg & Seidenschnur, Tim (2024): Multipler Wettbewerb – multiple Wettbewerbsakteure? Der staatliche Wettbewerb im Hochschulbereich und die Transformation von Bundesländern in Wettbewerbsakteure. In: Webler, Wolff-Dietrich (ed.): Überzogener und überhitzter Wettbewerb in der Wissenschaft I. Wissenschaftsförderung und ihre Irrwege. Bielefeld : UVW UniversitätsVerlagWebler (Hochschulwesen: Wissenschaft und Praxis; N. F. 43), pp. 41 - 68. doi.org 10.25656/01:30856 (open acess)
Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai (2024): Professors’ opportunity hoarding and ‘hamster wheels’ in the German academic labour market. In: Strachan, Glenda (Eds.):
Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 321–333.Mauermeister, Sylvi; Brose, Julia, Langfeldt, Bettina; Steinhardt, Isabell; Götze, Nicolai (2024): Evaluieren und Publizieren? Eine Untersuchung deutschsprachiger Publikationen
zum Qualitätsmanagement in Studium und Lehre von Mitarbeitenden in hochschulischen QM-Abteilungen von 1996 bis 2021. In: Schmidt, Sarah; Koppenborg, Markus; Abele Christine (Hrsg.): Evaluation an Hochschulen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaftlichkeit und Pragmatismus. Berlin: DUZ Medienhaus. https://www.duz-open.de/media/e1457f56a67a9f338c70e87ca8a4f2cf9da0ddce/f575b32f90a32b0cd866a47845aa350fb1ace900/864faa5f7dbb33de09ff38e408a2533dd5969d65/b44aed367988ad9eee53f1b2ecbb10a238424b88.pdfGötze, Nicolai; Schneijderberg, Christian (2022): Metrical Valorization of Performance (MeVoP): The Funding-Induced Vertical Stratification and the Construction of Post-
Humboldtian Research-Teaching Nexus in German Higher Education Institutions. In: Futao Huang, Timo Aarrevaara und Ulrich Teichler (eds.): Teaching and Research in the
Knowledge-based Society. (vol. 23). Cham: Springer (The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective), pp. 53–76.Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai (2022): Publishing as Epistemic Governance of Academics: The Cognitive and Social Frontier of University-industry Linkages and
Commercial Indicators. S. 64-87 in: Sarrico, C., Carvalho, T., & Joao, M. (eds.): Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics. Elgar.Götze, Nicolai (2021): Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy: Economic Higher Education Policies and the Persistence of the German Research and Development System.
In: Jisun Jung, Glen A. Jones, Martin Finkelstein und Timo Aarrevaara (eds.): Universities in the Knowledge Society: The Nexus of National Systems of Innovation and Higher Education, vol. 22. Cham: Springer (The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in
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Project and work reports
Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai; Müller, Lars (2021): Academic Profession in Knowledge Societies (APIKS). In: GESIS Datenarchiv, Köln. ZA6709 Datenfile Version 1.0.0. https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13843 . (Open Access)
Schneijderberg, Christian; Götze, Nicolai (2020): Organisierte, metrifizierte und exzellente Wissenschaftler*innen. Veränderungen der Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen an
Fachhochschulen und Universitäten von 1992 über 2007 bis 2018, INCHER Working Paper 13, International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), Universität Kassel. Volltext (PDF)Schneijderberg, Christian; Müller, Lars; Götze, Nicolai (2020): Is the German Academic Profession on Metrification Autopilot? A Study of 25 Years of Publication Outputs, SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/mcs3g
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Qualification work
Götze, Nicolai (2024): Institutionelle Filter: Das deutsche Hochschulwesen zwischen Persistenz und Reform. Dissertation Universität Kassel. https://kobra.uni-kassel.de/handle/123456789/16046#
