Young researchers’ development
At Faculty 04, up to eleven students are awarded a doctorate each year. Moreover, there are on average two habilitations per year (these figures are based on the average of the years 2012-2015).
- Young researchers’ development measures at Faculty 04
The young researchers are supported by the trusting supervisory relationship with the professors of the faculty.
The close supervisory relationship is the basis for a scientific career in History and Culture Sciences. The faculty is making a number of efforts to productively accompany and initiate this path:
Already during your studies, you have opportunities to immerse yourself independently in various fields in student working groups (e.g. STARK and IGNIS). Through the close exchange of these working groups with the professors, scientific discourse is made possible and promoted. So-called summer schools have been established in many subjects in recent years (for example at the Historical Institute, the working group “Antiquity and the Middle Ages” and in Protestant Theology).
In those summer schools, students in higher semesters are offered a conference programme, which offers opportunities to deepen knowledge as well as scientific networking. The same goal is pursued in advanced seminars of the faculty in which the exchange between potential doctoral students and doctoral candidates is often encouraged. Colloquia offer the opportunity to talk to other doctoral candidates during the dissertation phase and to reflect on their own work status. On the level of the academic junior faculty, a young network has recently emerged that promotes interdisciplinary discourse in the doctoral or habilitation phase. Doctoral candidates in the department can also often participate in the dissertation funding programme of the GCSC and the GGK.
- The Path to the Doctorate / Habilitation
Formally, the path to the doctorate is specified in the respective applicable doctoral or habilitation regulations. Many young researchers have a state-funded teaching or project assignment during their qualification phase and acquire scientific competences in the fields of research and teaching beyond their doctorate and habilitation. Many institutions also provide funding that supports a scientific career path.
Prizes and awards for young researchers at the JLU
Further foundations offering doctoral sponsorships can be found here.