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Research Career Day

All About Making a Career in Research

Are you doing your doctorate and would like to know what a career in research means? Do you want to figure out if a research career is the right choice for you? The Research Career Day provides strategic knowledge and personal orientation about career perspectives, career paths and requirements for a career in research considering the broader scope of making a career at universities, non-university research institutions and universities of applied sciences.

What does the Research Career Day offer?

The Research Career Day fosters an early understanding of the most important career factors, career strategies and personal decisions for a career in research. The half-day event combines expert input, the exchange of experiences with Postdocs and experienced researchers, and interactive elements. It provides knowledge and experiences to enable an early career orientation for doctoral researchers interested in a research career and helps to understand what can already be important during the doctorate.

Who is invited to participate?

The Research Career Day is aimed at doctoral researchers from all research areas at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the University of Duisburg-Essen who would like to find out about a career in research at an early stage.

We offer this event in English to integrate all research areas and research languages.

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Kalender IconNext date: The next Research Career Day will take place on 2 December 2024 at Veranstaltungszentrum Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Mensa Building), level 04



14:00 – 17:15 h with flexible breaks

14:00 h Welcome and Introduction to the day

Part I: Gaining Career Orientation
In this part of the programme we will explain the German research career system, will touch basic questions on how to develop a career in research and will explore how to strategically navigate through the career system at different kinds of (research) institutions. Together with the experienced researchers we will discuss:

  • framework conditions for a research career in Germany
  • career paths, career steps & goals
  • national & international mobility
  • most important career strategies

Part II: Developing an academic profile
In this part of the programme we will highlight important career factors and personal career decisions for making a career in research. Together with the experienced researchers we will focus on:

  • career requirements & demands
  • explicit and implicit career factors
  • aims, benefits & challenges of a research career
  • personal motivations, decisions & coping strategies for making a research career

Part III: Meet the experienced researchers to ask your personal questions

17:15 h End and emptying drinks & snacks 

The programme offers you to take away the most important information about a research career. 

Experienced Researchers - we highly appreciate their engagement, many thanks for helping us:

Short academic CVs of the participating researchers

You can register for the Research Carrer Day until 22 November 2024 here: https://eveeno.com/research-career-day-2024


Contact

If you have any questions about the Research Career Day, please contact:

Dr. Ursula Justus
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
RUB Research School
FNO 01/142
Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum
Phone: +49 (0)234 32-28070
ursula.justus@rs.rub.de