Graduate assemblies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
A primary goal of the Graduate Forum is to give the graduate students of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities a voice. The plenary meeting, which takes place once a semester, serves this purpose. All doctoral students and postdocs of the Faculty who are in a supervisory relationship with a member or in an employment relationship with UPB are invited to attend. At the beginning there is a public part in which all other UPB members and external guests can participate.
The plenary assembly aims to address current topics of graduate work, facilitate exchange and networking between graduate students and those responsible in the faculty (e.g. Dean, Chair of the Doctoral Committee, Graduate Centre) and thus promote a joint shaping of the framework conditions for academic work. In addition, the management team and the graduate representatives are elected once a year. All doctoral candidates and postdocs of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities are eligible to vote.
Graduates are encouraged to suggest topics for the plenary assembly. These and other concerns and questions can be sent by email to graduiertenforum-kw-team@lists.uni-paderborn.de.
13th Graduate Assembly
The 13th Graduate Assembly took place on 11 June 2024 at 1 pm hybrid in C5.218 and via Zoom.
Further information can be found here.
Past graduate assemblies
The 12th Graduate Assembly took place on 05.12.2023 at 13:00 hybrid (C5.218 | Zoom). The minutes of the public part of the meeting can be viewed here.
The 11th Graduate Assembly took place on 13 June 2023 from 13-14 hybrid (C5.218 | Zoom). The minutes of the public part of the meeting can be viewed here.
The 10th Graduate Assembly took place on 06.12.2022 from 13-14 hybrid (C5.218 | Zoom). The minutes are available for viewing here.
The 9th Graduate Assembly took place digitally via Zoom on 24 May 2022 from 13:00-14:00. The minutes are available for viewing here.
The 8th Graduate Assembly took place online via Zoom on 07.12.2021 from 13-14 hrs.
You can find the minutes here.
The 7th Graduate Assembly took place on 11 May 2021 from 13-14 online via Zoom.
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The 6th Graduate Assembly took place online via Zoom on 08.12.2020 from 13-14 hrs.
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The 5th Graduate Assembly took place on 28 July 2020 from 13-14 online via Zoom.
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On 26 November 2019, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities held its fourth doctoral candidates' meeting. Once again, over 50 doctoral candidates and interested parties were welcomed. Invited guests were the Dean Prof. Dr Volker Peckhaus and the Vice President for Research and Young Academics Prof. Dr Johannes Blömer.
The central topic was the official Graduate Centre (Paderborn Centre for Junior Academics). Mr Blömer reported on the current status, the planned structure, the cross-faculty tasks and offers, personnel and possible premises. There will also be additional contact points in the faculties. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions and make suggestions.
Further topics:
- New library card for doctoral students without a staff position
- Workstations in the library
- Application procedure for doctoral programmes via PAUL
- News from the clearing centre: Search for advisors for a test phase
- New: FAQs for doctoral counselling
- Financing stays abroad for doctoral candidates
The 3rd Graduate Assembly took place on 28 May 2019 from 13:00-14:00.
Click here for the minutes of the meeting.
On 6 November 2018, the second doctoral candidates' meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities took place. Once again, a large number of doctoral candidates attended, so that the number of participants was again over 50. Invited guests included the Dean of Research, Prof Dr Peckhaus, the Chair of the Doctoral Committee, Prof Dr Buhl, the Dean of Research, Prof Dr Becher, Julian Decius as a representative of the mid-level faculty and Gerd Richter from the Academic Staff Council, who all attended.
After a general round of introductions, which was intended above all to make functionaries visible as contact persons, current concerns from the various fields were addressed.
For example, Ms Buhl reported on the planned change to the doctoral regulations, while Mr Decius spoke about further work on proposed solutions for conflicts during the doctoral period.
Other topics discussed at the meeting were
- Clearing concepts for conflict cases (including from the GFKW itself)
- Offers for doctoral candidates (including the doctoral candidate counselling service, which was installed in the Dean's Office)
- Disagreements about examination forms within the scope of the disputatio*
There was also the opportunity to express suggestions and wishes as well as criticism and suggestions for improvement. The third doctoral candidates' meeting will take up and concretise points that have already been discussed. We are delighted that the President, Prof Dr Birgitt Riegraf, will be present this time!
*In the meantime, this has resulted in the revision of the supervision agreement, which Ms Buhl drew up following the meeting.
On 29 May 2018, the first doctoral candidates' meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities took place at the invitation of the Graduate Forum. Together with the Dean, Prof Dr Volker Peckhaus, the then Chair of the Doctoral Committee, Prof Dr Jörn Steigerwald, and Stefanie Orlovic-Koru, who is responsible for doctoral matters in the Dean's Office, the 53 doctoral candidates from the faculty who attended were able to ask important questions about the doctorate. There was also the opportunity to express suggestions and wishes as well as criticism and suggestions for improvement. Among other things, the following were discussed
- Terms of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act (WissZeitVG)
- Definitions relating to doctorates (start/end)
- Clearing centre in cases of conflict
- Enrolment in the doctoral degree programme
- Continuing education programmes
- Binding formal information for the preparation of the doctoral dissertation
- Supervision agreement
- Composition of the doctoral committee
- new doctoral regulations
