Promoting junior researchers plays a key role at the University of Münster. The University offers researchers a wide range of options – such as PhDs, graduate schools, junior research groups or associate professorships – in order for them to gain additional qualifications which prepare them for an academic career. For this reason, the Communication and Public Relations Department has given an intensive and differentiated look at the topic from January to July 2019.
Junior researchers at universities are promoted in a variety of ways, for example through PhDs, graduate schools and associate professorships. Prof. Jule Specht, a member of the Junge Akademie in Berlin and Professor of Personality Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin, speaks about the challenges for German universities in promoting junior researchers.
"Anyone who spends thousands of hours at their desk doing research is not only dependent on selfless support and patience on the part of their nearest and dearest, but is also very pleased at the many forms of support available at Münster University", describes doctoral student Vít Kortus in one of the three guest contributions.