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BEFORE starting your doctorate…
- A tool by BUA to help you answer the question: is a doctorate the right path for me?
- Finding the right supervisor: subject and supervision
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STARTING your Doctorate
Arriving at Freie Universität Berlin…
- Find the Welcome Service here
- Information on accommodation: Service of the Freie Universität Berlin ,
StudierendenWERK Berlin on housing for students - Starting into a doctorate
Support Offers…
- Psychological Counseling at FUB
- Mental Wellbeing project and Support Points at FUB
- Dealing with emerging crises during your doctorate
- Conflict counseling at Dahlem Research School
- Counseling, Advising, and Support Services at Freie Universität Berlin
- https://arbeiterkind.de/
- Find out about the Doctoral Council at Freie Universität Berlin
- FAQs on Doctoral Council election
Useful tools…
- Find the library starter kit here.
- Workshops at Dahlem Research School – register and start booking here.
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DOING your Doctorate
Freie Universität Berlin departments to contact in case of emerging crises…
- Ombuds Office and Central Ombudsperson at the Freie Universität – seeking help for academic misconducts
- Gender*Equality Team – establishing equal opportunities for people of all genders; counseling is open to all members, associates and guests of Freie Universität Berlin and can be booked here.
- No Means No – Freie Universität Berlin
- Make an appointment with Wendy Stollberg (Team geschlechter* gerecht) here.
- Talk on the topic: Mikroaggressionen im Hochschulalltag (in German)
- Mental Health First Aid at Dahlem Research School, contact aleksandra.skoric@fu-berlin.de
Counseling…
- Information on foundations that offer scholarships for doctoral researchers
- Get help as a first generation academic here.
- Diamond Open Access Publishing in Berlin – information and counselling
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FINISHING your doctorate
Career…
- Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (in German) – important information on pre- and post-doc contracts in German academia
- careerberlin.de – helping you enter the German job market post graduation by co-host of our podcast Amanda Wichert
Publishing…
- Microfiche manufacturing companies for publishing your dissertation: https://www.mik-center.de/kontakt , https://www.mikroform.de/
- Organizations that offer printing cost subsidy: Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Good Supervision
Discussions and research on good supervision…
- Podcast „Building a Good Relationship with Your Supervisor“ – Dr. Marlies Klamt, PhD coach and co-host of our podcast, talks about building and maintaining good supervision-relationships
- Leibniz PhD survey 2017 – looking back at supervision relationships during the doctorate
DRS supervisor award…
- Does your supervisor inspire you? Why not nominate them for the DRS Award for Excellent Supervision ?
Our supervisor award winners in the press…
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bernbeck and Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa (award winners 2020) in an interview with campus.leben
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefan Rinke (award winner 2019) in an interview with campus.leben
- Prof. Dr. Natalia Kliewer and Prof. Dr. Rupert Klein (award winners 2014) in an interview with campus.leben
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke and Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein (award winners 2011) in an interview with campus.leben
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