This workshop aims to uncover both unconsciously nontransparent and deliberately hidden information about pursuing a career in academia, providing participants with valuable insights into the scientific system. It is designed to encourage and empower researchers aspiring to academia to navigate the hierarchical and competition-driven scientific community effectively and proactively, using personalized strategies. Combining trainer input with interactive, hands-on activities, the workshop will enable participants to reflect on their experiences with hierarchies, abuse of power and competition. The goals are to help them identify available resources and opportunities to overcome personal challenges and boundaries.
This workshop will cover:
1. The different career pathways towards Academic Independence: A systemic overview of the German academic system and its typical challenges and opportunities
2. Confusing entanglements and contradictions: Traditional power principles with both corresponding privileges and related cultural and structural hurdles
3. The relevance of visibility, networks and micropolitics in terms of individual career success
Objectives:
- Have more transparency about the possible trajectories towards academic independence or a permanent position in the science sector in Germany
- Learn how formal structures and implicit rules and biases of the German academic system affects individual researchers (i.e., privileges and marginalization, transparent and nontransparent rules, experienced injustice, bias, discrimination, competition, lone wolf mentality, exclusion)
- Learn how to integrate the knowledge of diversity dimensions (e.g., gender, culture) into personal way of behavior and communication
- Feel effective to implement self-presentation and networking tips, supporting personal career success
Time:
08.09. 2025 and 09.09.2025, 9 am - 1 pm
Location:
This workshop will be held via Zoom.
Registration:
Registration closed