March 2024
Jollification
This event takes place in German.
June 2025
Exposé-Werkstatt. Von der Idee zum Text
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Career Choices – Craft your Career According to Your Strengths and Values
Target Group: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers / Language: English / Trainer: Kerstin Mauth / Max. Participants: 14
This transformative workshop is designed to help you navigate the exciting yet challenging transition from academia to your next career phase. Whether you're considering academia, industry, the public sector, or entrepreneurship, this workshop will guide you in aligning your...
July 2025
Common Job Interview Questions (Outside Academia)
Target Group: All employees at UHH / Language: English / Trainer: Meike Schoon / Max. Participants: 100
This talk is all about typical job interview questions (and possible answers). From interviewing techniques to preparation and your personal mindset.
Effektives Zeitmanagement für Promovierende
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Science Communication in Grant Proposals
This workshop is aimed at scientists who apply for funding for their research, especially postdocs. The seminar enables you to adequately reflect the topic of science communication in your grant applications and to implement the communication projects planned within the framework of your research proposals.
The workshop will cover essential basic principles of science communication. You will then...
Erfolgreiches Projektmanagement für Promovierende
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Ich werde Vater! – ein Vorbereitungskurs rund um Geburt und Elternzeit/Wiedereinstieg
Developing Your Emerging Research Ideas for Funding Proposal
Don’t let funding calls pass you by because you haven't had time to put the ideas in your head down in to a coherent proposal. This is an opportunity to spend a day taming your great research ideas. These may be ideas that you have been pondering for some time, have discussed with colleagues, but have not quite got them organised and on to paper. In this interactive session you will spend some...
Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 4: Facilitate
About the Series
Starting as a postdoc, junior group leader or junior professor, it is usually expected to supervise doctoral candidates. Supervision however is one of the tasks that are so "normal" in academia that we quite often neglect to further explain and prepare: "Everybody knows what supervision is so we don’t need to talk about it." As a result of this mindset, researchers who start...
Hamburg Innovation Summit 2025
Career Orientation: Group Counseling for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers
Academic Career: yes or no? And what comes next?
This one-hour event supports you in clarifying individual career questions in a small group (max. 4 doctoral candidates and/or postdocs). Particularly those of you who are "not yet decided" will receive suggestions for confident and timely decision-making.
Systemic questions and resource-oriented coaching methods enable you to change your...
3MT & Science Slam
(Bi-lingual workshop)
This workshop is primarily aimed at doctoral students who would like to take part in the fifth Hamburg Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) on 9 September 2025. Speakers will be given preference when allocating workshop places, therefore you can only register for the waiting list. Further information on the competition will follow soon.
At events such as the Three Minute...
August 2025
Karriereorientierung: Gruppenberatung für Promovierende und Postdocs
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
September 2025
Mit Storytelling Forschung neu denken
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Projektmanagement im Hochschulalltag – Tools und Techniken
Target Group: All employees at UHH / Language: German / Trainer: Nils Reschke / Max. Participants: 14
In diesem Workshop werden relevante Techniken des Projektmanagements mit Blick auf die spezifischen Anforderungen von Forschenden und Beschäftigten im Wissenschaftsmanagement im Überblick vermittelt und anhand eines praxisnahen Szenarios eingeübt.
Dieser Kurs ist anrechenbar für „Learn to Lead –...
First Audition? How to Apply for Professorships
Target Group: Postdoctoral Researchers, Junior Professors and Leaders of Junior Research Groups / Language: German / Trainer: Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrandt / Max. Participants: 12
The aim of the webcast is to provide participants with detailed information about all phases of the appointment procedure for professorships (focus Germany), and to give them concrete advice and tips for their applications...
Academic Career Perspectives – From PhD to Postdoc
Many PhD researchers opt for further careers in higher education and research. So, they work as postdoc as the next step. But the application process can be mysterious, the transition phase from doctorate to postdoc may seem difficult, expectations and requirements remain uncertain. In this workshop, we will demystify the process from PhD to postdocs. We will describe the roles, rights and duties...
Conference Presentation: Engaging the Listener in Your Talk
The seminar provides participants the opportunity to perfect their public-speaking skills. This is an activity-based workshop led by theatre professionals whose expertise is in helping the speaker effectively communicate the importance and relevance of the work and the core message in the talk. Repetition is a key aspect of the training so that participants can strengthen the narrative, the...
Three Minute Thesis-Wettbewerb 2025
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 5: Laws, Rules and Regulations
About the Series
Starting as a postdoc, junior group leader or junior professor, it is usually expected to supervise doctoral candidates. Supervision however is one of the tasks that are so “normal” in academia that we quite often neglect to further explain and prepare: “Everybody knows what supervision is so we don’t need to talk about it.” As a result of this mindset, researchers who start...
The Governance of the German Academic System
Target Group: All employees at UHH / Language: German / Trainer: Jan-Martin Wiarda / Max. Participants: 100
The seminar aims to provide an overview of the complex structure of the German academic landscape and enable participants to reflect on this. In this context, we will examine the requirements and tasks of university management, faculties and administration.
This workshop can be credited to...
Videos für die Wissenschaftskommunikation
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
HRA Spotlight – Early Career Researchers in der Wissenschaftskommunikation
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Applying Successfully for Jobs in Academia
Target Group: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers / Language: English / Trainer: Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrandt / Max. Participants: 12
The rules and requirements for job applications in academia are different from those in other fields. How should application documents look like? Which key skills acquired during dissertation or early postdoc years should be highlighted?