Promotion service / support for your promotion

1. Doctorate in the Graduate School:

• Tips and suggestions from the GSH Office specifically for your doctorate at the Graduate School (you will automatically receive this information from us at the start of your doctorate; pdf).
• Your doctorate - brief information
• Forms and information for your doctorate 
• Guidelines for compliance with Good Scientific Practice (pdf)
• Best Practice paper of the Deutscher Hochschulverband (German University Association) and THESIS e.V. (pdf)
• Handbook "Doctorate - make a Conscious Decision and get off to a Good Start" (for your potential doctoral candidates)
• Handbook "Shaping the Doctorate Together - Recommendations for Supervisors and Doctoral Candidates"
• "Ich will promovieren. Anregungen." Univ. Kassel (ed.)

2. Doctoral Funding:

• Current calls for funding for doctoral candidates (by mail to the doctoral candidates at GSH).
• Semesterly information lecture "Der Stipendiengreifer" ("The Fellowship Grabber"; see also under News) - Tips for fellowship applications, fellowship overview, links etc. - If interested, participants will receive the PowerPoint presentation following the lecture.
• Fellowship and funding overviews.
• "Leitfaden zur Promotionsförderung. Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe." (Univ. Münster, pdf)
• Project funding through the University of Würzburg
• University Welcome Centre > also supports newly appointed international doctoral candidates.

3. Doctoral Literature

4. Networks/Platforms/Internet/Software etc.:

• Overview of doctoral candidate networks
• de.hypotheses.org - "OpenBlog" on the humanities blog platform
• doktorandenforum.de
• researchGATE - internet-based work on your dissertation & research co-operation.
• sturado.de - network for female students and doctoral candidates: guide for women on financing their doctorate
• Studisoft - free Microsoft programmes for doctoral candidates  and others

Especially at the JMU Würzburg/GSH:

• Email address with university domain name (instead of @stud-mail...)

5. Career Orientation, Career Choice:

• Career Centre
• Brochure "Berufsfelder für Geisteswissenschaflterinnen und Geisteswissenschaftler" ("Occupational Fields for Humanities Scholars") from the JMU Würzburg Career Centre (pdf)

6. Psychological Support:

- Selection -

University Outpatient Clinic of Psychotherapy

• Individual psychotherapy

Psychotherapeutic Counselling Centre of the Studierendenwerk

• Individual counselling, psychotherapy, group therapy
• Seminars on the topics of stress management, exam anxiety, learning techniques

ESG / Protestant Student Community Würzburg

• Counselling
• Psychological counselling
• International students/promotion students

KHG / Catholic University Community

• Support, pastoral care and counselling
• Exam coaching
• Support and counselling for international students/postgraduates

Page with other counselling centres