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You can submit your (binding) registration for workshops via email to Promotionszentrum. The workshops and events* offered by the Graduate Centre are intended exclusively for doctoral students at HAW Hamburg who have already signed a supervision agreement with a supervisor at HAW Hamburg and/or are officially enrolled at HAW Hamburg. The exceptions to this rule are the workshops 'Doctoral studies – Are they right for me?' and 'Doctoral studies – Finding a topic and writing the proposal'. These sessions are also open to those potentially interested in pursuing a PhD (e.g. Master's students/graduates from HAW Hamburg and other universities).

Others interested in attending the workshops and events (academic staff at HAW Hamburg, HAW Hamburg PhD graduates, doctoral students at other universities with a connection to HAW Hamburg) can arrange to do so on an individual basis in consultation with the Graduate Centre if places are available (except for the ongoing 'English for PhD students' workshop).

* Unless they are listed as 'open to all'.

This mandatory workshop is for all doctoral students at HAW Hamburg who are in the first year of their PhD (entry and orientation phase). It teaches the fundamentals of good academic practice, including methodological, discipline-specific, interdisciplinary and research ethics elements, as well as how to apply them in research and PhD processes.

Central topics (selection):

• Rules of good academic practice
• Data management
• Research methods and good academic practice in research design and research processes
• Systematic literature searches

Since August 2022 we have been cooperating with the Technical University of Lübeck on the interdisciplinary qualification of doctoral students. Doctoral students at HAW Hamburg* can attend events and workshops offered for doctoral students at TH Lübeck. The workshop programme is currently under development. HAW Hamburg doctoral students will receive more information via the Graduate Centre newsletter when the programme has been finalised.

* Students who have submitted a supervision agreement with a HAW Hamburg professor to the Graduate Centre and/or are enrolled as doctoral students at HAW Hamburg.

The Hamburg Research Academy (HRA) is the central body for all prospective doctoral students, enrolled doctoral students, postdocs, junior professors, and their supervisors at nine higher education institutions in Hamburg, including HAW Hamburg.

You can find more information about the HRA and its current programme of events and workshops here.