A good supervisory relationship is crucial to the success of the doctorate. Dahlem Research School (DRS) is committed to supporting doctoral researchers in shaping their supervisory relationship. You can find the various offers on the website.
Each year DRS presents the Award for Excellent Supervision to two professors at Freie Universität Berlin in recognition of their exceptional supervisory work. What makes this award unique is that doctoral researchers themselves nominate their supervisors. A panel consisting of doctoral researchers and staff members of Dahlem Research School evaluates the anonymized proposals and selects the award winners. The award includes a grant dedicated to the ongoing support of doctoral researchers. The distinct feature of this award is that it is based on nominations from the doctoral researchers.
In interviews with the award winners we want to find out what qualifies them for the award, what they do differently, and if they have a secret recipe.
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EPISODES
Episode 1: „It’s my job to make sure that students can complete their doctorates properly and quickly“ – Prof. Dr. Kevin Pagel, professor of bio-organic chemistry at FU Berlin (Supervisor Awards 2022)
Episode 2: Prof. Dr.Cornelia Reiher, professor of Japanese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and vice director of the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (Supervisor Awards 2023)
Episode 3: Prof. Dr. Christian Lammert, professor of Political Science with a focus on North American Political Systems (Supervisor Awards 2023)
Episode 4: Prof. Dr. Helene Kretzmer, professor for Computational Genomics, (Supervisor Awards 2024)
Episode 5: Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel, professor for Sociology at the John F. Kennedy institute of Freie Universität (Supervisor Awards 2024)
LINKS
- 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
- 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