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Welcome to our department! Please take note of the following for working with us: Collecting and recording data Writing (if relevant) Never copy text from other sources, including your own previous work, for your writing. This applies also even if you reference the sentence you copied. Again, this is plagiarism and considered academic misconduct, andContinue reading “General Onboarding Document”

What are the basic expectations for a PhD project? Working hours and conditions In the German system, a PhD is a “real job”. If you are paid by a grant or by institutional funding you are officially an employee of the university, even if you are also registered as a student. Officially PhD students areContinue reading “Expectations and guidelines for academic work in the PhD”

Introduction Many academics are completely disengaged with any kind of online presence, to the extent that they rarely even update their university webpages. On the reverse side of the coin are highly online academics, who may not only have active social media presences on all the major platforms, but have e.g. personal and academic blogs,Continue reading “Using online research platforms and social media in academia”

Overview Authorship is a contentious issue worldwide in the academic community. There are many definitions of what should constitute “authorship” of a scientific manuscript, and many of them are rife with elitism, cultural bias, and historical momentum. There are also a great number of field-specific conventions, so be aware that what is acceptable or normalContinue reading “Authorship”

What is success in the PhD? I want to talk about what a ‘successful’ PhD is. The reason I think this is an important topic is that this will not look the same for students with different goals, and also because the criteria that matter the most for a) your thesis grade, B) me asContinue reading “Success in the PhD”