After graduation, there are several career paths available to you besides research and teaching, e.g. in enterprises, in an administration, consulting, in NGOs, politics, or self-employed. In order to help you open up career paths outside academia, too, GGG has acquired “Praxismodule“ (“practice modules”) funded by Volkswagen Foundation. … Weiterlesen
The qualification program of GGG includes courses about self- and social competences, competences needed for your PhD project and professional skills.
We offer courses on “Selbst- und Zeitmanagement“, “Grundlagen der Mitarbeiter*innenführung“, and “Presenting Well“ in the first quarter of 2018.
As of now, registration has started for these courses at: ggg.kursanmeldung@uni-goettingen.de. … Weiterlesen
Furthermore, we would like to draw your attention to the following courses offered by the section for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, which address especially PhD students. … Weiterlesen
The Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG) provides funding and scholarships for PhD students of social sciences. In the beginning of 2018 you can apply for a family oriented finishing grant, the finishing grant and Research Assistantships for international PhD students, the Team-Teaching program and several grants with flexible application dates.
Further up-to-date information can be found on the GGG homepage at: www.ggg.uni-goettingen.de/GGG-sponsorship. … Weiterlesen
Julia Zilles, the PhD students’ representative, established a mailing list to improve contact and networking between the PhD students of GGG. You can subscribe via this link:
listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/listinfo/promovierende_ggg. … Weiterlesen
GRADE, the graduate academy of the Goethe University Frankfurt, has designed an eLearning course on “Good Academic Practice during Doctoral Studies“. … Weiterlesen
With the end of September 2017, the staff at GGG office has been reduced once more. Mike Bielib worked in the project “Building Bridges for PhD students“ and managed GGG’s newsletter as well as the organization of the workshops on publication in cooperation with Göttingen State and University Library (SUB). … Weiterlesen
Since October 1, 2017, the Centre for Statistics offers consulting services in statistical questions for PhD students of the following graduate schools: GAUSS, GGG, GFA, and GSGG. The service comprises in particular consultation on data collection, statistical modelling and statistical inference. You can find further information here. … Weiterlesen
As previously reported, Göttingen University was asked to submit full proposals for four Clusters of Excellence. … Weiterlesen
On September 7, 2017, the parting PhD students‘ representatives “passed on the baton“ to the newly elected representatives. GGG sincerely thanks Julia Gumula and Rüdiger Hesse for their dedication and commitment in working for their fellow PhD students during the last years, in which they succeeded in improving GGG’s support measures as well as the compatibility of family and doctoral studies. … Weiterlesen
The Project Integration und Diversity at Göttingen University (InDiGU) organizes the InDiGU network café each Wednesday, noon, at the Mensa am Turm in the small room behind the cafeteria. Here, you can meet and connect on an informal level with other (international) (PhD) students. On December 6, 2017, Serena Müller (GGG Helpdesk for International PhD students) and Ceren Kasim (GGG PhD students‘ representative) will take part in this regular lunchtime meeting. … Weiterlesen
At this year’s Career Day at the Faculty of Law on December 12 and 13, 2017, PhD students of law can get information about different career opportunities and get in touch with companies. On the second day (December 13), Susanne Herrmann (Office of Student Affairs’ speaker) and Dr. Britta Korkowsky (GGG) together with a PhD student will inform about ways and perspectives of doing a PhD in law between 11 a.m. … Weiterlesen
On February 8, 2018, the SüdniedersachsenInnovationsCampus (South Lower Saxony Innovation Campus, SNIC), the section Business Contacts of Göttingen University and GGG present their joint projects “PraxisForscher“ and “Praxismodule“. Both programs address PhD students who want to prepare their future career outside academia. … Weiterlesen
At this year’s SoWi GO! on November 14 and 15, 2017, PhD students of Social Sciences are invited to inform themselves about a variety of career options. … Weiterlesen
If you are interested in German Christmas Traditions, you should come to Foyer International’s Christmas events. On November 27 you can participate in Christmas Crafting and on December 11 you will have the chance to produce your own Christmas cookies during the Christmas Bakery. It will be fun and delicious. All (international) (PhD) students are invited to join at 6 pm at Foyer International, … Weiterlesen
To support joint education, joint research and joint exchange between the four partner universities, the University of Göttingen will fund PhD students, researchers, and staff mobilities as well as events within the U4 network.
Please note that only PhD students, researchers and staff from the University of Göttingen can apply. Please submit the application form and all requested documents to marco.lange@zvw.uni-goettingen.de. … Weiterlesen
In the Gender Lab, that is organized jointly by the Göttingen Centre for Gender Studies (GCG) and the Graduate Schools of Social Sciences (GGG) and Humanities (GSGG), students, graduates and post-graduates are invited to present and discuss their research projects. … Weiterlesen
Du promovierst und willst herausfinden, ob eine eigene Gründung oder Selbstständigkeit das Richtige für dich ist? Oder du willst kennenlernen, wie man auch im Unternehmen unternehmerisch und innovativ denkt und handelt? Dann solltest du die Workshops im YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS IN SCIENCE (YES) Programm belegen, die dich genau darauf vorbereiten und dich in Kontakt mit Startups und innovativen Unternehmen bringen. … Weiterlesen
Göttingen University’s Career Service offers a range of further events which might be interesting for PhD students: … Weiterlesen
In general, all events organized by Innovationacademy are open to PhD students as well as postdocs. You can find their program for the whole semester at www.uni-goettingen.de/en/560351.html.
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In her lecture, Dr. Tina Jung presents several central aspects of the current change in midwifery, which is mostly understood as economization, forced medicalization and mechanization. Furthermore, she asks how this development in the area of pregnancy and birth is discussed, on the one hand in political initiatives (of mothers or parents), and on the other hand in scientific approaches, … Weiterlesen
PhD students are welcome to find information on ways of financing PhD studies on this year’s Study Financing Day, which is jointly organized by Göttingen University and Studentenwerk Göttingen and takes places on November 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.. … Weiterlesen
Starting 6 p.m. you can discuss with Martina Neuhäuser (TUI Group), Prof. Dr. Ludwig Theuvsen (Göttingen University) and Thomas Holm (Techniker Krankenkasse) on how to get a good start into a successful and satisfactory professional career. … Weiterlesen
There are free places available in GFA’s course on „Interdisciplinarity and Practice – communication and project development“ on December 14 to 16 with follow-up on February 16. This course aims at inspiring future interdisciplinary research and providing competencies in understanding and establishing interdisciplinary work. Each academic discipline is characterised by basic terminology and community practice. However, … Weiterlesen
The lecture series “Infinite Circlulation of Knowledge“ organized by the Göttingen Centre for Gender Studies (GCG) offers lectures, debates and discussions on feminist materialism. … Weiterlesen
Each year, hundreds of professors are hired at universities of applied sciences in Germany. Many academics do not really know about this career path with its professional perspectives and opportunities. … Weiterlesen
This is the second time our GGG newsletter is published in this online format. If you have any comments or ideas, kindly let us know by sending an email to the GGG team.
Please keep in mind that once this newsletter is issued, the registration period for the next courses has started: It is now possible for PhD students to register for the GGG courses taking place during the first quarter of 2018. … Weiterlesen
If you like to know more about our qualification program, support measures and consulting offers or if you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. … Weiterlesen
You have wishes, suggestions or ideas concerning our offers, the qualification courses, our events? We are constantly open for your wishes and looking forward to hearing from you! Send an email to ggg@uni-goettingen.de! … Weiterlesen