Calendar
June 2025
Exposé-Werkstatt. Von der Idee zum Text
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
July 2025
Career Orientation: Group Counseling for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers
Academic Career: yes or no? And what comes next?
This one-hour event supports you in clarifying individual career questions in a small group (max. 4 doctoral candidates and/or postdocs). Particularly those of you who are "not yet decided" will receive suggestions for confident and timely decision-making.
Systemic questions and resource-oriented coaching methods enable you to change your...
Sternstunden Festival: Music meets Cosmos
The Sternstunden Festival: a musical-scientific liaison under Hamburg's starry summer sky. Classical choral and ensemble music, open-air brass and big bands, scientific lectures and guided tours, sound installations: for one and a half days, the historic astronomy park of the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf will be home to a special combination of culture and astrophysics, offering visitors a...
August 2025
Karriereorientierung: Gruppenberatung für Promovierende und Postdocs
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
September 2025
Mit Storytelling Forschung neu denken
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Academic Career Perspectives – From PhD to Postdoc
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...
Conference Presentation: Engaging the Listener in Your Talk
The seminar provides participants the opportunity to perfect their public-speaking skills. This is an activity-based workshop led by theatre professionals whose expertise is in helping the speaker effectively communicate the importance and relevance of the work and the core message in the talk. Repetition is a key aspect of the training so that participants can strengthen the narrative, the...
Three Minute Thesis-Wettbewerb 2025
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 5: Laws, Rules and Regulations
About the Series
Starting as a postdoc, junior group leader or junior professor, it is usually expected to supervise doctoral candidates. Supervision however is one of the tasks that are so “normal” in academia that we quite often neglect to further explain and prepare: “Everybody knows what supervision is so we don’t need to talk about it.” As a result of this mindset, researchers who start...
Videos für die Wissenschaftskommunikation
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
HRA Spotlight – Early Career Researchers in der Wissenschaftskommunikation
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.