People interested in doing a doctorate and doctoral students at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal can contact us by mail or telephone:

Josephin Winkler - Doctoral Center Social, Health and Economic Sciences and cooperative doctoral students from the departments of Applied Human Sciences, Social Work, Health and Media, and Economics.

Kerstin Tänzer - Doctoral Center Environment & Technology and cooperative doctoral students of the departments Engineering and Industrial Design as well as Water, Environment, Construction and Safety

Make an appointment for a consultation here.

We are at your disposal for all questions concerning doctoral studies!

Frustrated by doing your doctorate? During your doctorate, there are phases that are difficult or unsettling. For example, your own self-management and time management do not work out, or there are difficulties in the supervision of your doctorate. For more clarity in your mind, our colleague Sandra Dietzel of the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences offers you the opportunity to work on your personal concerns in individual coaching sessions in a confidential and solution-oriented manner. This way you reflect on your resources, strengths and stumbling blocks and can find a concrete way to deal with your challenges.

Coach: Sandra Dietzel (Speaker of Promoting Early Career Researchers, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences)

Duration: max. 1 hour, several appointments possible; online

Registration: appointment by mail

Doctoral students of the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal can apply to have part of their travel expenses reimbursed if they attend a face-to-face workshop of our qualification program.

Each application must be decided individually according to the current financial situation of the project CASE. Please contact Kerstin Tänzer or Josephin Winkler at least five weeks before the event for further information.

Doctoral students and prospective doctoral students, who currently write their exposé, of the Magdeburg-Stendal University of applied sciences can get a consultation on qualitative methods, including the planning and conducting of qualitative research projects.

If you are interested, you can write a mail to Paul S. Ruppel (paul-sebastian.ruppel@h2.de) and/or Christoph Stamann (christoph.stamann@h2.de) of the qualitativ-diskursiv-digital-Labor for an individual appointment.

Doctoral students of the Magdeburg-Stendal University of applied sciences can receive consultations from the university's librarians, e.g. on literature research and on literature administration programmes, individually or in groups. You can best make an appointment via the Bibo-Service-Desk (login with your university account; the website is mainly in German).

Moreover, doctoral students can ask for longer book lending periods (e.g. for one semester) and for free of charge interlibrary loans. The library also borrows laptops, if available, for one semester.

The standard offers of the library are also valid for doctoral students. The library also accepts propositions for buying new books, also via the Service-Desk.

The Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences covers the costs of open access publications with certain publishers, including Elsevier, SpringerNature and Wiley. The offer applies to doctoral students at the Doctoral Centres, regardless of their enrolment status, and can be requested from the Open Access Officer. The publication must have been produced as part of the doctorate and must state Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences as the affiliation.

The current Open Access Officer and more information on open access at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences can be found here (in German).

Every year in March and September, the university’s Service Department for Quality Development, Didactics and Digitization (SB QHD) offers “Teaching Weeks” with several onsite and online workshops. Doctoral students of Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences can also participate.

So, if you are interested in developing your teaching skills, check the information here.

The university's open course offerings bundle cross-topic, cross-discipline and cross-departmental courses. They are designed to enable students to acquire knowledge, skills and, above all, important key competencies that are useful for successful study, career entry, a professional career or personal development. Registration is via a login to the booking portal, to which anyone can register.

Doctoral students of all four universities of applied sciences are charged the student rate. You do not need to be enrolled for this, but you do need to provide proof to the Center for Continuing Education that you are a doctoral student if you do not have a student e-mail address at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.

To the course offers

Enrolled doctoral students have a license for SciFlow, an online program that allows you to easily format and cite documents and write them together with others. Particularly interesting:

- SciFlow offers over 5000 templates from specialist journals in which you can start writing straight away.

- If you write a text together, you can see who has written what and can also call up older versions of the text.

You can find an introductory video here.

Doctoral students of the Doctoral Centers and cooperative doctoral students of the four universities of applied sciences in Saxony-Anhalt can also participate free of charge in the qualification program of the Graduate Academy of the University of Magdeburg if there are any remaining places. You can find the course overview here. To always receive the latest offers, you can subscribe to the newsletter of the OVGU Graduate Academy.

They can also participate in the courses of the International Graduate Academy of the University of Halle-Wittenberg if there are any remaining places. You can find the course overview here.

Those courses are often held in English.

The qualification program is open to all doctoral students at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Anhalt, Harz and Merseburg. This includes cooperative doctorates and doctorates at all doctoral centers in Saxony-Anhalt.

Some other offers on this website are only open to doctoral students of the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal (cooperative or first supervision sits at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal). This is explicitly stated in the offers. You can find out whether the other three universities have similar offers on their doctoral websites.

Unless otherwise stated, the offers are free of charge for the target group mentioned. If you do not belong to the target group but would still like to take advantage of an offer, you are welcome to contact the person responsible.

Since the offers come from different institutions of different universities, it is important to read up on how to register for each offer and, if applicable, when the registration deadline is. It is also worth asking after the registration deadline if there are still places available.

Doctoral students of the Magdeburg-Stendal University of applied sciences can apply for a subsidy for travel expenses if they want to attend a face-to-face course of the qualification program. You can find more information under "Consultation".