Poster sessions are an integral part of almost every scientific conference. Their purpose is to highlight research results, visualize them, and stimulate discussion. To draw your audience in, you need a crystal-clear message, a text format optimized for best legibility and well-chosen graphics. And above all, you need to think well through how to organize, arrange and illustrate your research content for a printed or digital poster format.
Basic rules of graphic design and layout technique will help you to present your work in a visually well-structured and compelling way. The training shows you how to present your research efficiently and provides time to put directly into practice what you have learned.
Was ist eine der wichtigsten Herausforderungen von Promovierenden? Ganz klar, das Schreiben der Arbeit.
An der MLU Halle-Wittenberg schreiben von den ca. 2000 Promovierenden nicht wenige an Ihrer Arbeit und stehen vor ähnlichen Problemen, bei denen wir uns untereinander austauschen und unterstützen sollten. Das hat uns inspiriert, als Promovierendenvertretung das erste Mal und testweise ein im März (21/ 22.3.2025) stattfindendes, sogenanntes Schreib-Retreat zu konzipieren auf dem wir für Euch zwei Angebote kombinieren möchten. 1. Das kopräsente Arbeiten (Co-Working) und Austesten von Schreibstrategien und 2. zwei kostenlose Workshops zu Themen des wissenschaftlichen Schreibens und der Stressbewältigung bzw. dem Umgang mit Scheitern während der Promotion an jeweils einem der zwei Tage.
From June 2025 the mentoring programme for female postdoctoral researchers, provided by the universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Jena and Leipzig, offers eight places at each university for highly-qualified female postdocs, researchers undertaking a ‘habilitation’, junior scientist group leaders and junior professors, to support them in their development and future careers. The programme aims for female researchers who seek a professorship at a German university and who were awarded their doctorate at least 2 years ago.
application deadline: March 30, 2025 to:
You can find more information about the competition here.
Die folgende Veranstaltung wird für Promovierende der MLU durch die Hochschule Merseburg (HoMe) in Kooperation mit der Internationalen Graduiertenakademie durchgeführt.
Jeder Konflikt birgt die Chance auf eine Veränderung in sich und bringt die Energie für einen Wandel. Um das Potenzial eines Konflikts konstruktiv zu nutzen, ist es wichtig, ihn in seiner Dynamik besser zu verstehen und im Konfliktfall sicher und angemessen zu reagieren. Das Seminar setzt sich daher aus einer Mischung von praktischen Übungen zur Selbstreflexion, theoretischen Inputs und Analyse von ausgewählten Praxisbeispielen aus Ihrem Arbeitsalltag zusammen. Es vermittelt wichtige Verhaltens- und Kommunikationstools und erhöht dabei Ihre persönliche Konfliktlösungskompetenz.
Konflikte sind Teil von zu unserem (Arbeits-)Alltag und oft mit unangenehmen Gefühlen verbunden. Jeder Konflikt birgt die Chance auf eine Veränderung in sich und bringt die Energie für einen Wandel. Für das Verständnis eines Konfliktes werden Analysetools eingeführt, die Handlungsoptionen eröffnen.
R has become a leading statistical programming language in data science and statistics. The R software is free, highly extensible, and allows to easily produce publication-quality plots. The aim of this course is to equip participants with the basic skills to effectively use the software R, embedded in the user interface RStudio. These skills will cover data import, processing and data exploration, graphical representations with ggplot2, basic concepts of statistical inference and linear regression. All topics will be demonstrated in working examples and practiced with hands on examples.
In the first two days we are going to teach the basic functionality of R, RStudio, and ggplot2. Day three and four are dedicated to the application of statistical tests, which will be extended to linear mixed-effects models.
Leipzig University organizes a lecture series on career and everyday life in academia of postdocs. This time the topic is
How to write an academic CV
The CV is a complete summary of all of your academic achievements and can be as long as needed. Although it will grow longer as your academic career progresses, you’ll want to make sure that you include accomplishments that are relevant and important. You also want to make sure to address assessment fields that are relevant for applications to a professorship, that the CV is complete and stylistically consistent. However, there are different approaches to do so and finding the way that appeals to you personally is just as important as continuously updating your CV.
During this lunch lecture, we address these issues with the focus on academic CVs for applying for professorships in Germany. There will be a short input and enough time for discussion afterwards.
The doctoral academy “Business and Leadership Ethics” offers the following writing retreat to doctoral students at MLU and other European universities who are working on topics related to business or leadership ethics.
The academy is delighted to announce the second Writing Retreat taking place May 11th -15th in Wittenberg, Germany, as part of our Doctoral Academy, an initiative hosted by the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics (WCGE) and the Friede Springer Chair of Business Ethics and Management Accounting (MLU). This distinguished program, generously funded by the KSG Foundation, offers doctoral candidates a platform to advance their research, engage with renowned scholars, and foster meaningful connections between theoretical inquiry and practical application within the fields of business, and leadership ethics. For a deeper look into the Doctoral Academy, make sure to check out the brochure.
APPLY NOW FOR OUR WRITING RETREAT – May 11th – 15th, 2025
The CZS STEM Impact School is an advanced training and continuing education program for researchers from the STEM disciplines. The aim of the project is to teach the basic principles of effective, quality-oriented and socially relevant science communication. The CZS STEM Impact School comprises five modules that build on each other and help participants to develop an individual communication and impact plan for their research. In addition, the project offers space for inter- and transdisciplinary networking as well as for reflection and creative exchange among researchers. The CZS STEM Impact School offers six courses a year, two of which take place digitally and four at different locations in Germany.
The teaching materials developed in the project will be made available as Open Educational Resources in the future to enable subsequent use in other contexts.
A total of three 3-day Impact Schools will take place in the first half of 2025:
8.-10.04.2025, Online (German-speaking)
13.-15.05.2025, Erfurt (German-speaking)
23.-25.06.2025, Berlin (English-speaking)
You may now apply for these Impact Schools. The application deadline is February 18. Further dates will be announced in spring 2025.
As a scientist, your reputation is your personal brand. You’re going to have one whether you choose to influence it in a particular direction or not. How others perceive you stems largely in part from your research results, your behaviors, and your overall actions. Just as in the business world, your personal brand is what defines how successful you can become, and it’s vital that you spend a portion of your resources to cultivate and protect it. In this workshop we will explore networking as an important aspect of those efforts.
Take-aways
Exploring your ‘presence’ and receiving feedback from the group
Developing a workable elevator pitch
Increasing your self-awareness
The opportunity to examine critically both your professional identity and your value proposition
The next PhD Round Table will take place on Wednesday, 5th of February 2025, 7 pm at Irish Fiddler in the Große Ulrichstraße 37. As always, you can meet other PhD students and postdocs as well as PhD Network staff at the monthly get-together and network.
