Offers for doctoral candidates

Setting up a semester-structured, six-semester doctoral program in which doctoral processes are coordinated, supported is a long-term goal of the MSH. The doctoral program summarized here represents the pilot phase of a future doctoral program, in which program components are made accessible to the doctoral candidates currently researching at the MSH. The doctoral program is aimed at doctoral candidates who work in individual projects, at MSH qualification centers or in third-party funded projects at MSH.

The doctoral program is aimed at:     

• Research assistants at a MSH qualification center    
• Scientific staff of MSH in a third-party funded research project     
• Associate doctoral candidates with doctoral supervisors at the university     
• Doctoral candidates from other universities interested in the program components offered

The doctoral program at MSH is repeated over a period of 6 semesters and includes the following courses *:

M1     Scientific Publishing
M2     Scientific lecture competence
M3     Leadership and Management Skills
M4     University Didactics I
M5     University Didactics II
M6     University Didactics III
M7     Philosophy of Science and Ethics
M8     Subject-specific method deepening
M9     Design Thinking/Research Design
M10   Application and Ethics Application
M11   Use of funds and controlling in research projects
M12   Journal Club
M13   Doctoral Colloquium

*Subject to change, update once a year at the beginning of the winter semester for the following academic year.

In order to give doctoral candidates the economic security and opportunity, to concentrate fully on the doctoral thesis, the MSH also awards doctoral scholarships. There is no legal claim to a doctoral scholarship.Fellows receive a monthly contribution to the cost of living. An application requires students to submit an abstract of the planned doctoral work and subsequent timetable.

Initially, the duration of the funding is for two years. On the basis of an application and a detailed report, the scholarship may be extended thereafter.

The MSH does not currently have the right to award doctoral degreees. However, many MSH graduates and graduates from other universities have been doing their doctorate at MSH in cooperation with those universities that have the right to award doctorates. It is planned to submit the application for the right to award doctoral degrees at MSH in the near future.