Public Events

HUL – Short Sessions

Would you like to receive inspiration along with your morning coffee? Then join us at "HUL - Short Sessions". During short interactive web sessions we will provide you with impulses for your teaching at UHH.

Everyone interested in topics regarding "Teaching and learning at UHH" is explicitly invited to participate in the web sessions, e.g. also tutors and students and...

This event takes place in German.

This event is conducted in German.

This event is conducted in German.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

HUL – Short Sessions

Would you like to receive inspiration along with your morning coffee? Then join us at "HUL - Short Sessions". During short interactive web sessions we will provide you with impulses for your teaching at UHH.

Everyone interested in topics regarding "Teaching and learning at UHH" is explicitly invited to participate in the web sessions, e.g. also tutors and students and...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

This event takes place in German/ English

https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/soa/aktuelles/23-09-30-khmer-1-announcement.html.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

This event is conducted in German.

This event is conducted in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

Can you imagine presenting your doctoral thesis in 180 seconds? This is precisely what the Three Minute Thesis competition challenges doctoral researchers from all disciplines to do. As they test their research communication skills on stage, the audience gains interesting and entertaining insights into current research.

We warmly invite you to join us for the upcoming event on 12 October. This...

Note: The application deadline for this course is 13 October 2023!

As part of the research communication project, the Hamburg Research Academy offers an e-learning course for an introduction to science communication. The course offers basic knowledge of how science communication works. It focuses on topics such as dimensions of science communication, the interplay of actors and target groups or...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

The post-PhD job search can be difficult, especially when searching for a job outside of academia. The German job market presents specific challenges for international PhD candidates. It is often less flexible than the job markets that candidates may be familiar with from their home countries or from prior academic exchanges, and potential cultural differences create invisible hurdles that...

Key methods, practical guidelines, and concrete practice. This presentation training will improve your skills in presenting your research outside of the scientific community. The workshop takes a practical approach, and will cover these topics:

Contents
- Cater to the brain! How to employ media in an optimized way
- Mind the gap by building bridges: How to reach and engage your audience
- From...

Once a month, the HRA provides an opportunity to see Hamburg from a different perspective and to exchange and network with Hamburg researchers. Over the course of the theme year, we will explore the locations and sights near our member universities with a professional guide. There will be the opportunity to continue chatting and networking with fellow researchers over a drink after the tour. We...

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

The next career step after completing your doctorate comes with several questions: Staying in Hamburg?! How do I apply for a job in industry? What do employers expect and how to transfer my skills and competencies?

For international researchers, applying to the German non-university market (for the first time) can be a particular challenge. However, whether you are looking for a job in the...

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

What funding is available for postdocs and what should be considered when submitting an application?

This HRA Spotlight will provide a comprehensive overview of national funding formats with focus on the German Research Foundation (DFG) and supplementary information on federal funding and foundations. Special focus will be on funding formats for postdocs, both in the early as well as in the more...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

Which EU funding is interesting for young researchers after their PhD?

The information event will give an overview of the funding formats "Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowships" and "ERC Grants" as well as an insight into the specifics of EU applications. After the presentation, you will have time for your individual questions.

HRA Spotlight: The Hamburg Research Academy offers regular short...

This event takes place in German.

The event takes place in English.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

Doing a PhD in Germany brings lots of challenges – the most important one is to understand the German Academic System and the workflow of a PhD-project. This training explains the hidden rules of German academia and provides detailed insights in rules, formalities, time-lines, tasks and pitfalls of a PhD-project. Having a good overview of the upcoming milestones from the start of research until...

The defense is an important milestone on the way to the doctoral degree. Presenting orally in the defense situation is a big challenge and often linked with insecurities and stage fright. The defense or disputation is of critical importance: first, the defense is an integral part of the examination of the PhD-degree and, second, it shows your ability to argue and present your achievements and the...

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

Calling all ambitious student entrepreneurs!
 
Are you searching for the perfect avenue to explore the world of startups, but haven't yet discovered that groundbreaking idea? Look no further, as we present to you INTIE – a comprehensive two-semester program dedicated to supporting students from the initial ideation phase to prototyping and business pitching.
 
INTIE offers an invaluable opportunity...

This 2 ½ day workshop is designed to exchange approaches, tools and good practices in supervising doctoral researchers. It is aimed at supervisors with initial, first experience(s) and generally seeks to increase awareness of supervision challenges and whilst providing insights on how to deal with them.

Specific aspects that the workshop focuses on include:
- developments in doctoral supervision
-...

Once a month, the HRA provides an opportunity to see Hamburg from a different perspective and to exchange and network with Hamburg researchers. Over the course of the theme year, we will explore the locations and sights near our member universities with a professional guide. There will be the opportunity to continue chatting and networking with fellow researchers over a drink after the tour. We...

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

In this workshop, doctoral candidates will focus on the importance and the complexity of the doctoral supervisory relationship. The workshops will cover three main aspects:

- active design of the supervisory relationship
- navigating hierarchies
- effective communication

Participants in the workshop will be introduced to strategies for establishing and maintaining a productive relationship with...

This hands-on workshop provides an overview of the German research funding landscape and explains how to exploit funding opportunities at the postdoctoral stage for further career advancement. Selected EU programs within the framework of Horizon Europe are also covered. Practice scenarios for different research settings help to understand how to select and approach individual funding programs to...

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

Research, teaching, career planning, possibly a family – and time for yourself: Balancing all of those areas is challenging. In order to meet the different demands and to stay healthy, both self-organization and self-care are essential.

This workshop is about developing a life-balance model that meets your own goals and needs – both professionally and privately. Against the background of your...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.          

Prof. Dr. Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Professorin für Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen, Universität Hamburg

This event takes place in German.

Mental health in the academic sector has become an increasingly important subject in recent years, with the recognition of the unique circumstances that make an academic career. Among other factors, academics commonly need to relocate for career opportunities, adding cultural alienation to the high competitiveness and low job security to the challenges that an academic career brings with it. The...

Please note: This workshop is aimed exclusively at female* early-career researchers!

In Germany and elsewhere researchers are embedded in specific hierarchical constellations. The theoretical approach of micropolitics and its conceptual enhancement provide a framework to grasp systematically the manifestations of the everyday uses of (informal) power in organizations. In this online workshop you...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

Prof. Dr. Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Professorin für Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen, Universität Hamburg

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

This event takes place in German.

Today's science communication is no longer about presenting fact-based content only, but also about one's own research personality.

As part of the master class, we analyze the topic of science communication from a holistic perspective, combining intrinsic motivations, internal and external communication processes. After completing the master class, the participants will have the necessary...

The law on fixed-term employment contracts in German academia (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG for short) regulates the possibilities of setting a time limit for research staff at universities in Germany. At the moment a new legislation on fixed-term contracts in higher education and research is expected to enter into force. The till now so-called 12-year rule applies in particular to...

The workshop raises critical awareness of how to build research capacity and navigate research leadership with confidence. By reflecting on different styles of leadership, it provides hands-on tools and techniques to develop vision and mission, set goals, identify specific needs, recruit and develop research talent, manage expectations and review progress.

By participating in the workshop, you...

Once a month, the HRA provides an opportunity to see Hamburg from a different perspective and to exchange and network with Hamburg researchers. Over the course of the theme year, we will explore the locations and sights near our member universities with a professional guide. There will be the opportunity to continue chatting and networking with fellow researchers over a drink after the tour. We...

Dr. Laura Ogden, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

Open innovation and impact-oriented research practices seek to improve the transparency, trustworthiness, reusability, and accessibility of scientific findings for the research community and society as a whole. The interdisciplinary and interactive training invites early career researchers to gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the rising demands of "Open Innovation" in funding...

When doctoral researchers take the next step in their career, they may move into new positions where self-awareness and self-management is a fundamental prerequisite, be it in public research or industry. Polls have shown that while their scientific competence is usually good, most of the times these researchers need to improve their capacity in project, time, and self-management to deliver a...

This event takes place in German.

This workshop deepens your understanding of how networks may positively influence your career, your research projects and your personal development, and it helps increase the usefulness of your own networks. Special emphasis is placed on aspects related to working in international contexts and to pursuing an international academic career.

Contents
- What is a network? Which effects does it have?
-...

The Foundation of Decisions in Research Funding and Publishing

Peer Review is at the heart of every important decision in research and science: regarding funding as well as in publishing or decisions about hiring new personnel. The speaker explores the reasoning behind peer review processes and, by retracing its history, aims to make the current status, procedures and dilemmas of peer review...

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 doctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences who wish to improve their academic writing skills in English.

This practical workshop will focus on the structure of an English paper...

This event takes place in German.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

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...

Working in interdisciplinary teams and communicating to the public are becoming more and more important parts of academic life. But for talking to diverse groups of people, it can be hard to find a common language and communication style.

After this interactive online workshop, participants will:
- Identify their natural working & communication tendencies
- Understand these tendencies and the other...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

Once a month, the HRA provides an opportunity to see Hamburg from a different perspective and to exchange and network with Hamburg researchers. Over the course of the theme year, we will explore the locations and sights near our member universities with a professional guide. There will be the opportunity to continue chatting and networking with fellow researchers over a drink after the tour. We...

Journal articles should be published to influence the field – not simply to increase the list of publications. This advanced workshop is designed for researchers who have already begun their publishing journey and are seeking to refine their strategies. We will navigate the publishing and peer review process, with the aim of enhancing acceptance rates.

Contents
- The current publishing landscape
-...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

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...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.      

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

The Active Bystander training program aims to empower doctoral and early career researchers to challenge poor behaviors, and bring about cultural change through the reinforcement of messages defining the boundaries of unacceptable behavior.

Contents
- An understanding of what bystander apathy is and the importance of being an active bystander
- Learn skills and techniques to positively challenge...

This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.

Once a month, the HRA provides an opportunity to see Hamburg from a different perspective and to exchange and network with Hamburg researchers. Over the course of the theme year, we will explore the locations and sights near our member universities with a professional guide. There will be the opportunity to continue chatting and networking with fellow researchers over a drink after the tour. We...