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PhD/Postdoc Career Center
As an umbrella organization, the PhD/ Postdoc Career Center supports doctoral candidates and postdocs as well as junior professors from all disciplines in their academic and interdisciplinary further qualification. The PhD/ Postdoc Career Center offers interdisciplinary seminars to strengthen key academic and career-related skills as well as support for career orientation. With regard to their career planning, early career researchers are offered support in shaping their academic or non-academic career paths. The aim is to prepare doctoral and postdoctoral researchers for successfully taking on management responsibilities in science and industry. Junior professors are supported with advice, coaching and workshops to help them take on leadership and management roles.
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ZePrO's program for the winter semester 2024/2025
We are very pleased to announce our new program of courses and events for the winter semester 2024/2025. In the upcoming semester, the program will again offer a broad range of interdisciplinary qualification, counseling, and networking opportunities for doctoral candidates, postdocs and junior professors.
Registration is now possible!
Please find the current program here (PDF, 2.66 MB).
Online Conference - Register now!
“Good Science!” Symposium on Good Scientific Practice,
October 10/11, 2024, Osnabrück University
On October 10 and 11, 2024, the Osnabrück University is holding a symposium on good scientific practice. The online conference will offer various opportunities for an interdisciplinary exchange on the question of how good scientific practice can be implemented in one's own everyday research. Doctoral candidates and postdocs, advanced master’s students, professors and lecturers at Osnabrück University are cordially invited to participate.
The symposium will start on October 10 with an introductory lecture on the Code of Conduct of the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice”. On October 11 parallel workshops for postdocs, doctoral candidates, and advanced master‘s students are planned to address issues of implementing good scientific practice in the everyday research of different disciplinary cultures. Among others, the topics “Handling data and sources” and “Publication process and authorship” will be examined in more detail. In the joint final discussion, procedures for dealing with scientific miscon-duct will be introduced.
We look forward to receiving your registration by October 2nd, 2024!
The program and registration form for the symposium are available here: Registration
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Information about doing a doctorate
- Quality standards for Doctorates at Osnabrück University (PDF, 117 kB)
- Leaflet on PhDs (in German) (PDF, 20 kB)
- How to write an exposé (in German) (PDF, 508 kB)
- How to write an exposé (in English) Source: University of California, Berkeley
- Guidelines to ensure good scientific practice
- Shaping a doctorate together (PDF, 249 kB)
- General information for prospective PhD students (in German)
Individual Development Plan, IDP
Career Consultations for the Postdoc Phase
Procedures for Dealing with Conflicts arising during Doctorates at Osnabrück University
The quality of a doctorate is critically dependent on the trust relationship between doctoral candidates and their supervising professors. Nevertheless, conflicts can arise between candidates and their supervisors during the course of a doctorate which might delay progress on a candidate’s dissertation, endanger the successful completion of the doctorate or even lead to the candidate abandoning their project altogether. In August 2013, the Senate of Osnabrück University adopted a set of guidelines for dealing with conflicts arising during doctorates, which names contact persons who might be addressed in cases of conflict, and which sets out procedures for conflict mediation.
More information:
Procedural Guidelines for Dealing with Conflicts arising during Doctorates (PDF, 701 kB)
Contact Points and Persons in Conflict Situations (PDF, 536 kB)
Confidential Advisors for Junior Professors
Osnabrück University appointed confidential advisors for junior professors for the first time in July 2021. The confidential advisors may be consulted in cases of conflict or other challenging situations. They offer advice to junior professors and support them with a view to finding solutions. The aim is to give junior professors the chance to address any potential conflict situations and problems during their junior professorship at the earliest possible opportunity and in a confidential environment.
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