The ECSR summer school consists of two parts, the graudate school and workshops, and are primarily for Ph.D. students working in various fields of sociological research.

The lecturers of the graduate school (September 6th –12th) are:

• Dr John H Goldthorpe
  Integrating theory and research in the study of social stratification

• Dr Geoffrey Evans
  Reconstructing the theory of social cleavages and political partisanship: social class, ethnicity and party support in the new democracies of East-Central Europe

  Social exclusion: theory, research and public policy

• Prof. Annemette Sorensen
  Gender inequalities: theory, research and public policy

• Prof. Peter Hedstrom
  The analytical approach to sociological theory: explaining Organisational growth and collective action

The workshops (September 13th-14th) include nine working groups chaired by:

• Dr. Thomas Bahle and Prof. Anne Gauthier:
  Family Policy in Europe

• Dr. Sonja Drobnič and Dr. Karin Kurz:
  Interdependencies in the Life Course and Social Inequality

• Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Prof.Jelle Visser:
  Education, Labour Market and Labour Organisations

• Prof. Duncan Gallie and Prof. Chris Whelan:
  Labour Market Precarity, Poverty and Social Exclusion

• Prof. Chiara Saraceno:
  Gender Inequalities

• Prof. Karl-Ulrich Mayer, Dr. Francesco Billari, Dr. Henriette Engelhardt, and Dr Emmanuelle Tulle-Winton:
  Macro Social Change, Welfare State Adaptation and Life Course Outcomes

• Prof. Hartmut Esser and Dr Frank Kalter:
  Migration and Interethnic Relations

• Prof. Bernd Wegener and Dr Stefan Liebig:
  Comparative Social Justice Research

• Prof. Anthony Heath, Prof. Nan Dirk de Graaf, Dr Paul Nieuwbeerta:
  Comparative Political Sociology