DHPol researchers will provide insights into their research at the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) conference in Athens from 3 to 6 September 2024.

Department of ‘Administrative Science with Special Emphasis on Politics and Society’ on counter-terrorism, public security structures and organisational dynamics

Prof Dr Eckhard Schröter is Co-Chair of the international EGPA Permanent Study Group (PSG) V: ‘The Politics and Management of Policing and Public Safety’. In Panel III of PSG V, the head of the DHPol department ‘Administrative Science with Special Emphasis on Politics and Society’ will also give a lecture on the topic: ‘How (Not) to Coordinate Policing in a Fragmented System: A Critical Review of Germany's Joint Centres in the Fight Against Terror’. Michael Ibrahim-Sauer, research associate in the department, will also speak in Panel III on: ‘The Influence of Path Dependency on Public Safety Architecture: The Federal Office for Civil Protection in a State of Stable Fragility’. Research associate Donella Jytte König completes the DHPol presence of the department. She will give her presentation in Panel IV on the topic ‘Agile Bureaucracy, Bureaucratic Agility? Rethinking Organisational Dynamics of a VUCA-World Police: A Contingency Theory Approach’. 

Department ‘Organisation and Staff Management in the Police’ on learning culture, psychological safety and job satisfaction

At EGPA 2024, Prof. Dr Dr Antonio Vera, Head of Department ‘Organisation and Staff Management in the Police’, and Maximilian Grothe, research assistant, will be addressing the topic ‘Does a Positive Learning Culture Lead to Satisfied Police Officers? A Quantitative Study on the Mediating Role of Psychological Safety in the German Police’. The two researchers will present their findings from a survey of 103 police officers in Panel II of the Permanent Study Group V. 

The EGPA currently holds 23 Permanent Study Groups covering a wide range of key topics and research areas in public administration, political science, public management, public law, sociology or public policy. Their main task is to act as interdisciplinary platforms to facilitate exchange between research and practice, to promote initiatives in their respective fields of research and to prepare or draw up recommendations or guidelines. An overview of all EGPA Permanent Study Groups and their leaders is provided on the EGPA website. 

EGPA PhD Symposium for young researchers

The EGPA PhD Symposium offers young researchers in the broadly defined fields of public administration and public management the opportunity to engage in intensive dialogue. Prof Dr Schröter will chair the PhD symposium together with Prof Dr Benjamin Friedländer, University of Applied Sciences of the Federal Employment Agency, Schwerin, and Prof Dr Vassilis Kefis, Panteion University, Department of Public Administration, Athens.

About EGPA 2024

The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) is the most important professional society in the field of administrative sciences on the European continent and a regional group of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS). This year's EGPA conference is being organised in close cooperation with the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. The EGPA conference is expected to take place in Glasgow in August 2025.