Coaching Program for Doctoral Researchers
Since 2016, the Graduate Centre has been offering a coaching programme for doctoral researchers in cooperation with the Equal Opportunities Office and the Centre for Teaching Development. The aim is to strengthen your decision-making confidence in self-management, in addition to specific skills development and networking.
Coaching Program for Doctoral Researchers
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The doctoral process is rarely straightforward. As a doctoral researcher, you are undertaking a complex research project with high intellectual demands, a high level of responsibility and a risk of failure. At the same time, you develop scientific and professional skills that lead to a coherent career plan.
Perseverance, goal-oriented behaviour, methodical research approaches and a motivating working environment are of great importance during the doctoral process. It also aims to strike a balance between the different areas involved in the doctorate process.In addition, a balance should be achieved between the different areas of responsibility involved in the doctoral process.
The coaching program supports you in the process in a doctoral project by:
- Early identification of potential problems
- Structuring processes with foresight
- Mobilizing resources
- Developing competencies
- Change of perspective
The coaching program for doctoral researchers offers you the opportunity to look at your doctorate from different perspectives and to analyze the process on a meta-level. The collegial coaching format also provides a structure that allows you to generate individual and collective solutions in the group along the doctoral phases and challenges that arise.
With the help of regular coaching sessions, a structure is put in place to help you generate individual and collective solutions to problems as they arise, while anticipating potential challenges. In this way, you can develop successful self-management to optimize individual success, which, in addition to the added value of networking, also leads to successful career planning.
Offer Collegial Coaching Program for Doctoral Candidates at TH Köln
Registration
Interested?
Then please register for the coaching program by email, indicating the title of your doctoral thesis, and the name of your supervisor(s). Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. For more information on the coaching program, please see the announcement in the box on the right.
