GrACe | Graduate Centre
Description:
Doctoral Researchers' Day offers compact information, info sessions on various phases of the doctorate and a panel discussion. All those interested in doing a doctorate, as well as current doctoral researchers, are warmly invited. The day offers the opportunity to network and make new contacts across faculty boundaries. At the info fair, you can also get to know relevant institutions and support services at Bielefeld University.
The Doctoral Researcher's Day is organised by the Graduate Centre and and will be held bilingually.
Programme:
10:00 a.m. | S1-500 | Arrival and Registration
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | S1-500 | Welcome (EN)
Prof. Dr. Dario Anselmetti, Vice-Rector for Education and Teaching, Bielefeld University
Carla Sauvigny-Wigge | Graduate Centre
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | S1-500 | PhD Networking: Getting to know each other across disciplines (EN & DE)
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 a.m. | Parallel Info Sessions | Part I
1. A PhD – the right thing for me? (EN) Room: S1-213
An overview of the conditions, first steps, decision options and possible pathways of the doctorate process at Bielefeld University.
Pia Ortwein | Graduate Centre
2. PhD Life in Balance: Insights from the Bielefeld Questionnaires (EN) Room: B3-267
This talk presents findings from the Bielefeld Questionnaires on Study and Working Conditions and Mental Health, shedding light on stressors and protective factors in the course of a doctorate, while also providing helpful support offers and contact points for (mental) health and well-being at Bielefeld University.
Zita Deptolla, Mats Huwendiek | Health Management
3. Career paths at the university: what‘s in that black box? (EN) Room: S1-500
How do you get from PhD to professorship? Which skills will you need to develop, which players will you have to know? And is a professorship the only career option in science, anyway? An overview for navigating science in Bielefeld and Germany.
Dr. Martina Pauli | GrACe | Centre for Advanced Researchers
12:00 a.m. – 01:30 p.m. | Student Service Centre (UHG Gebäudeteil B Ebene 0) | Lunch break with an info fair featuring doctoral programmes and science-supporting services. (EN & DE)
Info fair: participating institutions
- Science-supporting services:
- Accessibility Services (ZAB)
- Bielefeld Young Researchers' Fund (BNF)
- Career Service (ZLL)
- Competence Center for Research Data (Gemeinschaftseinrichtung von BITS + UB)
- Family service
- Graduate Centre (GrACe)
- Health Management
- International Office
- Language Centre
- Mentoring programme movement
- Neolaia
- Personnel Development Programme for Reseachers and Teachers (PEP)
- The Writing Centre (ZLL)
- University didactics & teaching development (ZLL)
- University Library
- Doctoral programmes:
- Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
- Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM)
- Bielefeld School of Education (BiSEd)/ BiSEd-GraduiertenNetzwerk
- Graduate School ,,Digital Infrastructure for the Life Sciences''(DILS)
- Doctoral Programmes Faculty of Technology (Bioinformatics and Intelligent Systems)
- Promotionsprogramm der Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft
- Doctoral Office Medical School OWL
- Research Training Group "Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies" (CUDE)
- Promotionsprogramm Psychologie / Structured Doctoral Programme in Psychology
01:30 p.m. – 02:30 p.m. | Parallel Info Sessions | Part II
4. How to finance your PhD (EN) Room: H15
An overview of the options for financing the doctoral process, from the traditional position as a research assistant to a full scholarship
Pia Ortwein | Graduate Centre
5. Keeping an eye on skills for the non-university job market during the doctoral phase (EN) Room: S1-500
Make the most of my time at university with the career service program. What skills can I acquire?
Dr. Julia Koppmann, Eva Osterloff | Career Service
6. Juggling multiple roles: Teaching hacks and habits for doctoral researchers (EN) Room: B3-267
In this session, we are acknowledging that doctoral researchers fulfil multiple roles alongside their research, one of the most prominent being the teacher role. We cast a light on the interplay of research and teaching roles and present basic didactic principles and teaching tips to ease teaching at the university.
Dr. Alessa Hillbrink, Dr. Gabriele Steuer | Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL)
03:00 p.m. – 03:45 p.m. | H15 | Panel discussion with the rector Prof`in Dr. Angelika Epple: Pathways in Academia. Scholars in conversation about their career biographies. (EN)
Moderation: Dr. Ulf Ortmann | Graduate Centre
04:00 p.m. | End