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 organisation „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, coordinator for Open Science of the Berlin University Allience, 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
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LINKS
- Ombuds Office and Central Ombudsperson at the Freie Universität – seeking help for academic misconducts
- Scholar Minds – mental health network for academics in Berlin
- 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.
- Berlin University Alliance’s Open-X initiative
- Berlin Science Survey on how researchers think about Open Science
- Berlin-Oxford Summer school on Open and Responsible Research
- Transdisciplinary lab at TU Berlin
- Diamond Open Access Publishing in Berlin – information and counselling
Dahlem Research School – Workshops for al phases of your doctorate: register and start booking here.
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