Want to learn more about contract law in academia in Germany?
Please check the article “The German ‘Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz’ in a nutshell” of German Scholars Organization e. V..
6. Mar 2024
[OVGU] Die eigene Zukunft gestalten: Karriereplanung – (20.-21.03.2024)
Es gibt freie Restplätze in einem Workshop der Graduiertenakademie der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.
Inhalte:
- Karriereoptionen in Wirtschaft, Verwaltung, etc.
- Biographische Verankerung von Qualifikationen und Kompetenzen
- Werte als individuelle „Treiber“ der Berufs- und Lebensplanung
- Spielregeln, Einflussfaktoren, Planbarkeit einer Karriere in der Wirtschaft und andernorts
- Berufswünsche und Visionen – Stimmigkeit von Wunsch und Realität
- Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Privatleben/Familie
- Beruflicher Netzwerkaufbau und pflege
- Konkretisierung planbarer Schritte auf dem Weg ins Berufsleben
- Kreative Stellensuche – Informieren und Zupacken
- Nächster Schritt: Bewerbungsverfahren, -interview, -unterlagen
Kursleiter:
Kurssprache ist Deutsch. Es handelt sich im einen Präsenzkurs.
Mehr Informationen und Anmeldungen bitte hier.
5. Mar 2024
English Academic Writing: The Ground Rules of Writing Well (April 25, 26 and 29, 2024)
This workshop addresses junior scholars from the social sciences, economics, and the humanities who have good command of the English language, seek to improve their English writing skills, and strive to make their academic papers more idiomatic. The workshop seeks to create an awareness of the typical patterns of non-idiomatic writing to which non-native authors writing in English – and especially German-speaking academics – are prone and equip the participants with strategies to avoid these pitfalls.
The workshop will be held on three days (two days in person; a half day online, during which you will receive individual feedback). It will be conducted in English by two trainers who have a professional background in the social sciences and many years of experience in teaching English academic writing and in translating and editing academic texts by German-speaking scholars.
[ Read On … ]14. Feb 2024
[IAMO GS] Thesis Defense Training (February 28-29, 2024)
There are free slots in the following workshop organised by the IAMO Graduate School.
This workshop is aimed at doctoral candidates who want to engage in intensive preparation for their disputation. With practical tips and exercises, the participants learn how to structure their introductory presentation, how to build up the central argument, how to deal with criticism, “killer-questions”, stage fright and black-outs, etc. Up to three participants get the chance to practice their full presentation. More information and registration details are available here.
This workshop prepares you intensively and compactly for your defense and is especially recommended for doctoral researchers who are in their third year or above.
If you want to join, please send a short email to the coordinator, Franziska Schaft ().
12. Feb 2024
Writing an exposé
Do you have a research question that you would like to investigate? Would you like to do that in the context of a doctorate? Are you planning to present your idea to your preferred professor to apply as a candidate for supervision? It’s time to write your exposé!
The exposé provides an overview of your planned research work. It links your research question with a plan for its investigation. You provide a clearly understandable, coherently reasoned explanation of
- what you want to investigate,
- why you’re investigating it and
- how you want to investigate it.
A well-written synopsis not only convinces scholarship providers or potential supervisors of your research idea. It also helps you as the author to structure your own project, to critically question it and to recognize potential challenges early on. Think of the exposé as a very first draft of your dissertation. This type of preparation can save valuable time, energy and resources later on.
Form and structure of an exposé
A clear structure is the necessary framework for convincingly communicating the core of your idea – the research question. You explain how you derived it and how you want to investigate it. There is not one strict form that an exposé must follow. However, certain key elements should be present in a logical order to achieve a comprehensible result.
[ Read On … ]5. Feb 2024
Clear at glance – Designing Effective Academic Posters (April 9, 2024)
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.
[ Read On … ]31. Jan 2024
New statutes on the principles for safeguarding good scientific practice at MLU
MLU has recently released the new statutes on good scientific practice (in German). Every researcher at MLU has to comply with the rules of good scientific practice.
Satzung über die Grundsätze zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und über den Umgang mit Vorwürfen wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Amtsblatt 34. Jahrgang, Nr. 1 vom 16. Januar 2024, S. 1
23. Jan 2024
[yDiv] iDiv Summer School 2024 (May 23-30, 2024)
You can register to the iDiv Summer School 2024 “Plant-pollinator interactions in restored grasslands”, 23 to 30 May 2024, in Leipzig, Germany! This iDiv Summer School is led by Tiffany Knight.
The 2024 iDiv summer school will provide students with hands-on experience in pollination ecology research. We will teach using a case study comparing restored to reference grasslands for the diversity and composition of plants and pollinators and the structure of plant-pollinator interaction networks.
For more information and the link for application, please visit www.idiv.de/summerschool.
This summer school is aimed at Bachelor students (in their final years) and/or MSc students, specializing in the fields of botany, ecology, entomology or other related fields from around the world. We are open to considering students from other career stages (e.g., PhD students, postdoctoral associates) if they are good motivation for wanting an introduction to this topic. Participants from regions often underrepresented in science can apply for funding.
Deadline for applications is 18 February 2024.
15. Jan 2024
Introduction to Statistics and R (March 11-12 and 18-19, 2024)
Content
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.
Specific Topics
Part I (March 11 and 12)
- Introduction to R and RStudio
- Data types (vectors, data frames, matrices, lists, factors)
- Explorative data analysis
- Creating functions and data manipulation
- Creating and customizing plots with ggplot2
Part II (March 18 and 19)
[ Read On … ]3. Jan 2024
DFG Funding Opportunities: for Postdocs (January 10, 2024 | online)
This online talk focuses on the DFG Funding Opportunities for Postdocs of the DFG. Further details and the dial in link can be found at Info Talks on DFG Funding Opportunities for Research Careers.
- Date: January 10, 2024
- Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. CET
- Language: English
Please note: You can access the event via the link above without any password. The number of participants is limited to max. 1,000.