Chances and Challenges - The BGHS Podcast

Todays Episode will be about one of the leading principles of the bghs: Internationalization. Around 36% of our doctoral researchers are internationals, which shows that that topic is extremely important to us. We offer a programme that can be entirely completed in English without knowing german, all of the information we give out comes in a german AND English version and we have a Coordinator for Internationalization, Clara Buitrago. But there is only so much we can do alone. The entire “eco-system” of the university plays a huge role for caring for and supporting international doctoral researchers, so institutions like...

In this episode, we will get another perspective from a professor und the dissertation phase – this time from Professor Ruth Ayaß, she is Professor of Qualitative methods of empirical social research at the faculty of Sociology here at Bielefeld University and of course, she is the director of the BGHS.

Today we will talk about a topic that can be easily overlooked while doing a PhD at a university, even though it makes up a big part of the opportunities you have after finishing your Dissertation: non-academic career paths. We at the bghs really put in effort to show that becoming a professor is not the only career goal you can have after finishing your PhD, but there are so many more options out there. Therefore I am really excited to talk to someone who does Career Couseling professionally, so I am sure she has even more inside into that...

Today, we will have a little peek on the other side, because I will talk to a professor about his perspective on his PhD Phase, as well as his view on the supervision relationship. My Guest today is Frank Grüner, he is Professor of Eastern European History at Bielefeld University. His research interests center on Russian and Soviet history. He also participates in and organizes academical exchange events and programmes with different international researchers and universities and he is deputy director of the BGHS. So, internationality will also be a topic.
Of course, not every supervisor is the same and...