The International Graduate Academy (InGrA) offers doctoral students of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg appointments for discussions and advice (20 min each) on topics related to doctoral studies.
Via the following link you can book an appointment with Dr. Thomas Michael, the manager of InGrA. When booking, you have the possibility to outline your question in advance via a comment. Your name, your email address as well as the comment are only visible for employees of InGrA. After the appointment your data will be deleted.
Individuals who care for children or family members and teach and conduct research at the same time are currently facing very special challenges, as the Corona pandemic continues to result in frequent caregiver absences.
Please check the following document for your application to student assistant funds via FEMPOWER@MLU, a project of the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity (website) at MLU.
Numerous studies show that the care of (younger) children and the care of relatives in particular leads to considerable burdens for the persons concerned and consequently to strong delays in their qualification and further career steps. The Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity would like to mitigate this disadvantage in the form of personnel support by research assistants.
The university is working on a new concept to commemorate Anton Wilhelm Amo, the first Afro-German academic at a German university, who worked in Halle and Wittenberg. At the Universitätsring, the rector and the chairman of the appointed rectorate commission inaugurated a plate pointing out the discrepancy between the artwork “Free Africa” and a memorial plate for Amo placed nearby in 1975.
In spring 2021, the Diversity and Equal Opportunity Office and the Equal Opportunity Advisory Council launched a survey on the pandemic-related challenges for scientists in the early stage within the university. In the meantime, the responses have been reviewed and a report with many answers and information has been written.
The Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the second funding period for the integrated Research Training Group (iRTG), which is part of the collaborative research center SFB/TRR 227 “Ultrafast spin dynamics”.
The SFB/TRR 227 is jointly operated by the two speaker universities MLU and FU Berlin. Partner institutions are the TU Berlin and the University of Potsdam as well as the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Physics, the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien.
Read more at press release 161/2021 of November 25, 2021 (in German) of MLU.
About iRTG of SFB/TRR 227
Integrated Research Training Group “Ultrafast spin dynamics (SFB/TRR 227)” spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Wolf Widdra, coordinator: Dr. Britta Anstötz (funding 2018-2025) (link)
Coaching can help students better adapt to changes such as those brought on by the Corona pandemic, even in a relatively short period of time. This is the key finding of a study conducted by MLU doctoral researchers in collaboration with an Austrian scientist. For this purpose, students kept a Corona diary for three weeks.
The International PhD Days mainly aim at doctoral candidates who have recently started their PhD at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. You will have the opportunity to learn about important areas of the university and its support services during short presentations.
Schedule
Thursday, October 21, 2021
1:00 – 1:30 pm: Welcome and opening of the International PhD Days with a greeting by the City of Halle
1:30 – 2:00 pm: Doctoral studies and InGrA at MLU (Dr. Thomas Michael, InGrA)
2:00 – 2:30 pm: Presentation on the support services of the International Office & PhD Network (Esther Smykalla & Markus Niedobitek, PhD Network)
18:00 – 22:00: Get-together at Peißnitzhaus with buffet and drinks. According to the current regulations, this face-to-face event will take place according to the “3G rule”. This means that only persons who are vaccinated against Covid-19, recovered or tested negatively can participate; proof must be carried with them.
Der ZEIT CAMPUS Ratgeber Promotion ist der Begleiter für (angehende) Promovierende auf allen Stationen der Promotion: von der Entscheidung über die Planung und Durchführung der Arbeit bis zu den letzten Nachtschichten vor der Abgabe. (von Zeit Campus)
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has expanded its Research Integrity portal to include an English version. The third level of the Code of Conduct “Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice” is now also accessible as an up-to-date source of reference to international, non-German-speaking target groups. (from DFG press release)
The English version of the Research Integrity portal is available at:
