Document 6500485

Robert Debusmann
Forschungsförderung / Europäische Forschungsprogramme
How to organise and to get funded
my PhD ?
• PhD in the Humanities
- Why a PhD?
- schedule and workplan – (Zeitplan / Arbeitsplan)
- What is your position now?
- PhDs at UBT 1999-2009 – duration and funding
- Funding strategy
• Funding opportunities
- Scholarship
- Research project
• The difficulty to end
PhD in the Humanities
- Why a PhD?
- schedule and workplan – (Zeitplan / Arbeitsplan)
- What is your position now?
- PhDs at UBT 1999-2009 – duration and funding
- Funding strategy
Why a PhD?
Good reasons:
- „My topic passionates me!“
- clear professional perspective after the PhD
A strong motivation will help you to cope with the difficulties of your PhD
Good environment
- Graduate school (as BIGSAS) vs. Individualist PhD
- School‘s advantage: organised structure, supplementary funding,
stimulating debates, critical mass
higher quality
higher chance to get an external scholarship
- the price to pay: „discipline“, active participation
- danger: deviating you from your straight line ?
Your competence and the project needs
•
Can I realise my research „off-the-cuff“ – as I can do now?
Do I need further skills and knowledge in methods, language, theory?
How many time will it take?
•
What data do I need?
How many time will it take to collect it all?
•
When should I write the chapters of my PhD?
How many time will it take to discuss them, to make the final draft?
When you think it is nearly finished, you probably are at half!
PhD in the Humanities
- Why a PhD?
- schedule and workplan – (Zeitplan / Arbeitsplan)
- What is your position now?
- PhDs at UBT 1999-2009 – duration and funding
- Funding strategy
Schedule and work plan
Reasonable schedule: 3 years (cf. below: actual figures of PhD duration)
Initial phase:
define the topic, establish schedule and work plan, get funding
Work plan - detailed for the first year:
- research questions should be clear
- required methods should be mastered (or specific training scheduled)
- access to the data pool should be open
- infrastructure and the contacts should be available
Schedule and work plan
define „milestones“ and risks
express career perspectives, deduce your training needs in „soft skills“
to be integrated into the schedule (IRTP)
draft your IRTP together with your supervisor
update it together once or twice a year
„agreement“
PhD in the Humanities
- Why a PhD?
- schedule and workplan – (Zeitplan / Arbeitsplan)
- What is your position now?
- PhDs at UBT 1999-2009 – duration and funding
- Funding strategy
Funding plan
- What is your present funding?
- What funding do you have in mind for your PhD?
- How long will really take your PhD (from start to last examination)?
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PhD in the Humanities
- Why a PhD?
- schedule and workplan – (Zeitplan / Arbeitsplan)
- What is your position now?
- PhDs at UBT 1999-2009 – duration and funding
- Funding strategy
PhD duration at UBT (since 1999)
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
96
•
Humanities (SpLit):
5 to 7 years (average)
•
Social Sciences (KuWi):
4 to 5 years
•
After presentation of PhD
4 to 5 months waiting for evaluation
and preparing for oral exams
•
Age average at PhD:
35 to 36 years (30% > 40 years)
•
BIGSAS figures are expected to be
lower
84
72
Monate
60
48
36
24
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
(3)
(7)
(5)
(4)
(3)
(6)
(2)
(3)
0
(10)
12
Kulturwissenschaften
96
84
72
48
36
24
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
(7)
(9)
(8)
(12)
(6)
(14)
(5)
(7)
0
2000
12
(6)
Monate
60
Funding strategies, e. g. in Geography (1999-2007)
Funding
•
The most frequent funding
source for PhDs in Geography
are projects and positions
•
Scholarships are also an
important option
•
External employment, family
support and erratic jobbing
supplement the PhD funding
•
Most PhD fellows have used
several funding sources
PhD fellows
(n=98)
project
position
external employment
scholarship
gradute program
Parents
unsteady
55
42
11
21
5
8
28
average
duration (mths)
37
36
19
30
36
24
12
several funding sources (successive: 66, parallel: 29)
1
2
3
4
37
40
11
5
PhD in the Humanities
- Why a PhD?
- schedule and workplan – (Zeitplan / Arbeitsplan)
- What is your position now?
- PhDs at UBT 1999-2009 – duration and funding
- Funding strategy
Funding strategy
Problems to solve:
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•
find a funding source
write a successful application
find a new funding source in time (before the actual funding ends)
The funding of the whole PhD should be part of your IRTP. You should
discuss it with your supervisor(s)
• Funding opportunities
- Scholarship
- Project
PhD scholarships
• (a) Individual scholarships
• (b) Graduate programs
• (c) Bavarian scholarships (BayEFG)
PhD scholarships
• (a) Individual scholarships
- the „12 Aunts“ (Begabtenförderungswerke, all disciplines):
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, FriedrichNaumann-Stiftung, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Cusanuswerk, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst , ELES
Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (Klaus Murmann), Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
- Foundations, Corporative Associations (evtl. thematic foci):
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (60 scholarships / year!)
Verband der Chemischen Industrie
->
http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/forschungsfoerderung/infos/nachwuchs.html
PhD scholarships
• (b) graduate programs
- DFG-Graduiertenkollegs (Liste www.dfg.de)
- International Max Planck Research Schools (Liste www.mpg.de)
- Marie-Curie Initial / Research Training Networks und Early Stage Training
Sites (www.eracareer-germany.de)
- IPPs, Graduate Schools
Scholarship advertisements are published in specialised newspapers, you have
to send an application directly to the graduate program
-> http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/forschungsfoerderung/infos/nachwuchs.html
PhD scholarships
• (c) Bavarian scholarships (BayEFG)
age limit 30 years, very good track record
candidates have to be members of a graduate program in Bavaria
(Graduiertenkolleg, Graduate School, Promotionsstudiengang)
2 calls per year (May / December), supervisor proposes a candidate
open competition at Bavarian level
PhD scholarships – general features:
- funding 2 + 1 years
- living allowance = around 1000,- € / mth. + research allowance
(around 200,- €) + evtl. family allowance
- application / proposals follow common standards
- differences are in the eligibility criteria:
nationality, theme, age limit, confessional orientation
- deadlines have an impact on your planning
time-to-contract: at least 6 months
• Funding opportunities
- Scholarship
- Project
Research projects:
• only scholars with a PhD / professors are eligible for application
• an institutional research and administrative structure is needed
• PhD fellows are hired in a project: half E13 position, 2-3 years,
renewable
• Funding succession: scholarship first, then project
Most important funding organisations:
• DFG (German Research Foundation)
• BMBF (Federal Ministry of Research & Education – research programs)
• Volkswagen Foundation (programs – „Knowledge for tomorrow“)
• European Commission (fp7, SP „SSH“; ERC)
• DBU (German Foundation Environment: scholarships and projects)
-> http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/forschungsfoerderung/infos/deutschland.html
„... bridging the meagre period …“
funding the months before a funding / between two main fundings
(since 2010): UBT Feuerwehrfonds (Emergency fund)
half E 13 position
up to 3 months before the start of / between two (external) fundings
proof of subsequent funding required (project, scholarship, position)
application to UBT Vice-President Research - immediate answer
„... the last months“
funding the end of the PhD
(1) (new) for women only :
final PhD phase scholarship of the Gender Representative of UBT
up to 12 months, not renewable
only 1 scholarship !
(2) Abschluss-Darlehen des Studentenwerks Oberfranken
Postdoc – transition into your professional life
- PhD Awards
- Postdoc Fellowships (incoming, outgoing, returning)
- Positions (Assistant Professor, project)
- Junior Research Group / Junior Professorship
Further Information:
Homepage
Forschungsförderung / Europäische Forschungsprogramme
www.uni-bayreuth.de/forschungsfoerderung/infos/nachwuchs.html
Portals:
Karriereportal www.academics.de
WiKi-Portal www.hochschulkarriere.de
Thesis PhD network www.thesis.de
German / European Mobility Portal www.eracareers-germany.de
Individual Advice
supervisors, postdocs, professional advisors, „Vertrauensdozenten“ (foundations)