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23. Oct 2024

Mental Health Awareness Days 2024 – Improving your resilience during the early career phases (November 27-29, 2024)

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Mental Health Awareness Days 2024 for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers – Improving your resilience during the early career phases

are a joint initiative of Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, yDiv/iDiv and HIGRADE/UFZ. Organized by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions.

Aims

Our main aim is to inform and sensibilize you on how to cope with demanding or stressful situations during your research. Ideally, the presented topics will help you to smoothen stressful situations and even prevent too heavy mental load. During these three days, you will find various online offers (most of them in English), e.g. relaxation exercises in the mornings as well as, a number of short workshops on topics such as resilience, concentration, positive psychology, the risk of addictive behavior and mindfulness. In addition, there will be information on how to become a mental health first aider and you will be introduced to the method of peer coaching.

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23. Oct 2024

De-escalation and boundary setting in exceptional professional situations (November 28, 2024 | online)

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You will learn about the forms and triggers of aggression and threats, specific warning signals for imminent escalation and strategies for psychological de-escalation and setting boundaries. In addition, preventative measures and dealing with stress will be discussed.

Course Description (Nov 28, 2024 from 10.15-11.45am | online)

The diverse interactions that take place at a university between students, academic staff and technical and administrative employees usually run quite smoothly. However, unacceptable escalations can occur too. Insults, threats of violence and vandalism are just examples.

The reasons for conflict depend on the respective area of one’s own activity: Missing a deadline, receiving a tip-off about one’s own misconduct or the feeling of being treated disadvantageously compared to others are among the risk situations in which some people react increasingly aggressively.

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23. Oct 2024

The Power of Play: Cultivating Playfulness for Success and Well-being in Academia (November 29, 2024 | online)

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This workshop explores the science and art of playfulness at work. Discover how playfulness manifests in the workplace, helps overcome challenges, and benefits productivity and well-being.

Course Description (Nov 29, 2024 from 10-11am)

In today’s fast-paced academic environment, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of research and teaching. What if we could find a way to make our work more enjoyable and productive? In this workshop, we’ll explore the concept of playfulness in the workplace and its potential to boost your well-being and productivity.

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18. Oct 2024

Collegial Counselling – Kollegiale Beratung (November 28, 2024)

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This workshop is part of the Mental Health Awareness Days 2024 a joint initiative of Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, yDiv/iDiv and HIGRADE/UFZ. Organized by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions.


Experience the effective power of collegial counseling: Develop solution strategies together for your challenges. Practical, interactive and supported by moderators.

Erleben Sie die effektive Kraft der Kollegialen Beratung: Gemeinsam Lösungsstrategien entwickeln für Ihre Herausforderungen. Praktisch, interaktiv und unterstützt von Moderatorinnen.

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2. Oct 2024

[UL] Lunch Lectures: Wissenschaftsmanagement als Karriereoption (October 16, 2024 | online)

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Leipzig University organizes a lecture series on career and everyday life in academia of postdocs. This time the topic is

Wissenschaftsmanagement als Karriereoption

as relativ junge Berufsfeld Wissenschaftsmanagement ist Promovierten oft (noch) wenig bekannt. Dabei bietet dieser Karriereweg die Chance, ganz vielfältigen und die Wissenschaft unterstützenden Aufgaben nachzugehen. In dieser Lunch Lecture bekommen Sie einen Überblick über mögliche Themenfelder und Arbeitgeber:innen und erste Ideen, wie Sie Ihre persönlichen Stärken nutzen können um in diesem spannenden Berufsfeld einzusteigen.

Target group

Postdocs

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30. Sep 2024

[MLU Newcomers Club] Get-together (Oct 15, 2024)

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MLU Newcomers Club warmly invites you to the regular get-togethers (Stammtisch), which take place every third Tuesday of the month from 7 PM at the Anny Kilkenny Pub. In a relaxed and informal atmosphere, you can meet other newcomers, share experiences, and form new friendships.

The next Stammtisch will take place October 15, 2024 at 7 pm
at Anny Kilkenny Pub (openstreetmap).

Find out more at the website of MLU Newcomers Club.

26. Sep 2024

[IAMO GS] Publishing Journal Articles: Strategies for Success (October 16, 2024)

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There are free slots in a workshop organised by the IAMO Graduate School.

This workshop discusses how to navigate the different steps of publishing and how to deal with the peer review process, increasing the chances of acceptance.

Course content

  • Introduction to scholarly publishing
  • How to select a target journal
  • H-index, impact factor, and other journal and article metrics
  • The peer review system: submitting, revising, and re-submitting
  • How to effectively communicate with editors and reviewers
  • Copyright and licenses
  • Ethical issues in publishing (e.g., predatory publishing, authorship disputes, plagiarism)
  • Open Access and Open Science
  • Artificial Intelligence in scholarly publishing

Methods

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25. Sep 2024

The MLU Newcomers Club is back

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Since its founding in 2015, the NCC has been a welcoming space for everyone new to MLU – especially national and international PhD students, postdocs, and faculty members. The aim is to foster connections among newcomers and to help you settle in quickly in Halle and at the university.

Starting now, the Newcomers Club warmly invites you to our regular get-togethers (Stammtisch), which take place every third Tuesday of the month from 7 PM at the Anny Kilkenny Pub. In a relaxed and informal atmosphere, you can meet other newcomers, share experiences, and form new friendships.

Find out more at the website of MLU Newcomers Club.

24. Sep 2024

[Heidelberg Center for American Studies] Annual Spring Academy Conference (March 24-28, 2025)

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Call for Papers

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 24-28, 2025.

The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects. The conference offers a forum for Ph.D. candidates in which they can present their research candidly and receive valueable feedback.

The HCA Spring Academy encourages applications that range broadly across the arts, humanities, and social sciences and pursue an interdisciplinary approach. Participants can present thesis projects on any subject relating to the study of the United States of America. Possible topics include American identity, issues of ethnicity, gender, transatlantic relations, U.S. domestic and foreign policy, economics, and various aspects of American history, literature, religion, geography, law, musicology, and culture. We also welcome proposals focused on the North American continent at large, i.e. Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean.

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16. Sep 2024

[GSO] HiddenChamps Webinar – Careers Beyond Academia in Humanities and Social Sciences (September 24, 2024)

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The German Scholars Organization e.V. (GSO) organizes the following Webinar.

64% of all doctoral degree holders under the age of 45 work in the business sector. It is often somewhat more difficult for humanities and social science graduates than for their STEM peers to find out which jobs and skill profiles actually suit them.

With the HiddenChamps offer GSO connects companies with researchers – in the next webinar, GSO will focus entirely on the Humanities and Social Sciences. Guests will be Dr. Christoph Senft, HR Coordinator Talent Network & University Relations at Nexperia and Marco Miguel Valero Sanchez, Talent Acquisition Expert at Talents4Good.

When: September 24, 12-1:15pm (CEST)
Register here.


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