DocDay 2025 - A day all about the doctorate!
- Inform & Network
- Informieren & Vernetzen
- For prospective doctoral researchers
- For doctoral researchers
- Für Promotionsinteressierte
- Für Promovierende
- DocDay
- Information event
- Networking event
- Vernetzungsveranstaltung
- Informationsveranstaltung
Hearing condensed information, getting exciting impulses and making interesting new connections will be the focus of the DocDay, revolving around all the skills and challenges associated with getting a PhD. The DocDay will be held in-person, offering participants the opportunity to make more personal connections and meet important institutions at TU Dortmund.
The DocDay is organised by the Graduate Center and is open to all people currently working on or interested in pursuing a PhD. Participation is free of charge.
The event will be held in-person at IBZ, TU Dortmund on January 22th 2025 starting at 10 a.m.
Program
10:00 a.m. | Welcome
10:15 a.m. | PhD Speed Meeting
10:45 a.m. | Info Sessions
- Start into the doctorate (prospective / early-stage doctoral candidates) (EN)
- Ins Ausland während der Promotion (doctoral candidates) (DE)
- Your Data Matters - Simple steps to a better Research Data Management (doctoral candidates) (EN)
12:15 p.m. | Lunch break with Market of Opportunities (EN & DE)
1:30 p.m. | Keynote (EN), Prof. Martina Brandt (Department of Social Sciences, TU Dortmund University)
2:30 p.m. | Info Sessions
- Essentials for the first grant proposal (EN) (doctoral candidates)
- Gute Lehre von Anfang an – Tipps und Tricks aus der Hochschuldidaktik (DE) (doctoral candidates and prospective doctoral candidates)
- Decisions, decisions: When (not) to use an LLM for academic writing (EN) (doctoral candidates and prospective doctoral candidates)
4:00-4:30 p.m. | Closing Keynote (EN)
- "AI and its costs: What we are trading off" | Nadine Lordick (RUB Schreibzentrum, "KI-gestütztes Schreiben" & KI:edu.nrw)