Extensive knowledge and skills are required for the doctoral project. The challenges change at different stages of the doctorate. This season focuses on issues that you might face while working on your doctorate such as writer’s block, mental health as well as the creation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships with your department’s faculty.

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Episodes

Episode 1: Dr. Marlies Klamt, PhD coach and co-host of our podcast, talks about building and maintaining good supervision-relationships

Episode 2: Listen in to our chat with Dr. Anselm Spindler, writing coach and workshop facilitator, as we talk about academic writing.

Episode 3: Prof. Heberle discusses good scientific practice and his role as the Central Ombudsperson of the Freie Universität Berlin

Episode 4: Sandra Neumann, representative of the organization „Scholar Minds“, discusses mental health during the doctorate

Episode 5: Join us on our talk with Christine Eßmann-Stern, the Women’s Representative and Gender Equality Officer, where we discuss about power relations in academia

Episode 6: Stefan Skupien, co-ordinator for Open Science of the Berlin University Alliance, discusses the value of open science and how to research based on its principles from early on in order to make your research accessible both within and outside academia

Episode 7: Wendy Stollberg, central contact person for cases of sexualized harassment, discrimination, and violence at Freie Universität Berlin, discusses about what to do in cases of harassment of any form during your doctorate

Episode 8: Dr. Elisabeth Zschache discusses the problems of power dynamics in research and how these can influence the way research is conducted

Episode 9: Dr. Elisabeth Zschache offers tips on how to handle power imbalances in a supervisory relationship

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