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The presentation training will give you key guidelines and practical tips on how to become better at presenting your research outside of the scientific community. The workshop will take a practical approach and will cover these topics:

- Cater to the brain! How to employ media in an optimized way
- Mind the gap by building bridges – how to reach and engage a non-scientific audience
- Fidgeting...

Along with professional communicators and journalists, researchers play a central role in communicating science to the public. They write articles and commentaries for newspapers and journals, give interviews, appear at public events, are active on social media and much more. If you want to reach a broad audience, you have to focus your topics and make your message generally intelligible.
The...

Researchers often play an important role in public debates on science. They are sought-after experts and frequently give interviews. This seminar teaches the fundamentals of formulating intelligibly and includes hands-on sessions practising the art of argument for communicating in a targeted and medium-appropriate way.
Working together with professional journalists, the interview seminar will...

As a PhD candidate you are the project manager of your own PhD project. The Getting Started-Workshop supplies you with the tools you need in order to plan and execute your PhD project as effectively and efficiently as possible. You discuss and test basic strategies and techniques of a good project- and time-management. This allows you to organize yourself and your workload in better ways. Based on...

A good supervisory relationship is an essential element for a successful doctorate. It is not only one of the key components to master your scientific project but also affects your further career development in academia and furthermore is associated with your wellbeing during the doctoral phase. To build up a confidential and professional relationship right from the beginning, it is helpful to...

Even promising dissertation projects can fail when implemented under everyday working conditions. To prevent from such failures this hands-on workshop teaches self- and time management skills which are useful to build up working routines and create realistic time schedules for the PhD project. To do so, participants reflect which time-management type they are and under which conditions they...

There are emails every working day, lots of them. Many issues come into play for researchers in the earlier stages of their career. You are invited to attend this short workshop to reflect on your own treatment of emails, on issues such as:

- When should I read my emails and for how long?
- FOMO – fear of missing out if I am offline and spend time on writing a paper instead
- How to say a polite...

Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. Berta Martín-López, Leuphana University Lüneburg (tbc.)

In der Woche der Diversity-Tage soll die Vielfalt an der Universität sichtbar gemacht und durch Impulse gestärkt werden. In diesem Jahr soll dies unter dem Motto "Awareness schaffen" geschehen. Hierfür gibt es unterschiedliche Aktionen für die verschiedenen Mitglieder der Universität - von Workshops zu guter Zusammenarbeit, Rundgängen zur Geschichte der Frauen an der Uni Hamburg bis hin zu...

This workshop addresses young researchers from all STEM subjects / natural sciences, who want to understand the logic of peer review processes. The workshop presents different review strategies and background information from the perspective of research funders.

The participants need to prepare short [mock] applications and act as reviewers in two panel meetings. By “playing” the process of a...

Regardless of your field, writing is likely part of your work as a scientist. Writing for a non-scientific audience, however, is outside your usual sphere. You may break out into sweat just thinking about it. Don’t worry, you are not alone. The good news: while talent plays a role as it does in any skill, so does technique and practice. Engaging writing is a skill that you can learn. This is how...

How can I make an impact in professional contexts such as small-talk situations at conferences? What can help me in situations where I face an international crowd and how can I connect to an interdisciplinary audience?

The workshop "Make an Impact!" offers the opportunity to enhance overall effective communication (verbal and non-verbal) in order to improve networking and self-promotion...

Writing is an essential part of the successful researcher’s skillset.  However, writing at the standard necessary to publish in peer-reviewed journals can be challenging. This two-day writing workshop is for PhD students in the natural sciences who wish to improve their academic writing skills in English.
This practical workshop will focus on the structure of an English paper and abstract and how...