Service desk Graduate Center

Mirjam Heetkamp

Mirjam Heetkamp

Hochschulreferat Forschung und Wissenstransfer

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3062

Dr. Katharina Rohrbach

Dr. Katharina Rohrbach

Hochschulreferat Forschung und Wissenstransfer

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-5220

Dr. Helen Overhoff

Dr. Helen Overhoff

Hochschulreferat Forschung und Wissenstransfer

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3451

Coaching Program for Doctoral Researchers

Since 2016, Graduate Center, in cooperation with the Equal Opportunities Office and the Center for Teaching Development, offers a coaching program for doctoral researchers. In addition to specific competence enhancement and networking, the goal is to strengthen your decision-making confidence in self-management.

Promovierendencoaching Coaching Program for Doctoral Researchers (Image: Michael Bause/TH Köln)

The process of a dissertation project is rarely straightforward. As a doctoral researcher, you carry out a complex research project with high intellectual demands based on a very high degree of responsibility, but also with risk of failure. At the same time, you develop scientific and professional skills that lead to consistent career planning.

Perseverance, a goal oriented behavior as well as methodical research approaches and a motivating work environment are of a major importance during the doctoral process. Additionally, a balance between the diverse fields of responsibilities regarding the doctoral process should be achieved.

Coaching program supports you in the process of a dissertation project by

- Early recognition of potential problems

- Structuring processes with foresight

- Resource mobilisation

- Development of competences

- Change of perspective

The coaching program for doctoral candidates offers you the opportunity to look at your doctorate from different perspectives and to analyse the process on a meta-level. The collegial coaching format also implements a structure that allows you to generate individual and joint solutions in the group along the doctoral phases and challenges that arise.

With the help of regular coaching sessions, a structure is implemented which helps you to generate individual and joint solutions to arising problems while anticipating potential challenges. In this way, you can develop successful self-management to optimize individual success, which, in addition to the added value of networking, also leads to successful career planning.

Registration
 

Have we piqued your interest? Then please register for the coaching program by email, indicating the title of your doctoral thesis, and the name of your supervisor(s). Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. For more information on the coaching program, please see the announcement in the box on the right.

Service desk Graduate Center

Mirjam Heetkamp

Mirjam Heetkamp

Hochschulreferat Forschung und Wissenstransfer

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3062

Dr. Katharina Rohrbach

Dr. Katharina Rohrbach

Hochschulreferat Forschung und Wissenstransfer

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-5220

Dr. Helen Overhoff

Dr. Helen Overhoff

Hochschulreferat Forschung und Wissenstransfer

  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3451


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