Fabian Besche-Truthe is a post-doctoral researcher in the project “The Global Development of Coverage and Generosity in Public Education” at the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy” at the University of Bremen. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Bremen is entitled: “Global Transformation of Education Systems. Investigating Domestic, Relational, and Transnational Levels of Policy Drivers.” In this thesis, he develops a heuristic analytical framework for the study of policy diffusion. This framework is then tested on the example of different education policies.
Together with the other team member, he builds up a large scale database depicting the evolution and transformation of national education systems on a historic and global scale. His research interests include global comparative education, social network analysis, and international policy diffusion. Fabian is editor of the Education Digest section of the journal Global Social Policy and active in European youth and social work.
