Advise, promote, qualify: The Graduate Academy of the HSWT
The Graduate Academy offers service and support on all questions related to doctoral studies. As a central institution for the promotion of young researchers, we support researchers in early academic development stages on their career path. The focus is on doctoral studies at the HSWT, although our services are also aimed at doctoral supervisors, those interested in doctoral studies, postdocs and research assistants.
The aim is to prepare and qualify young academics at the HSWT for outstanding positions in science, business and society.
The core tasks of the Graduate Academy include:
- Individual information & advice before, during and after the doctorate (e.g. requirements for the doctorate, financing, initiation, good supervision, career planning).
- Training & qualification within the framework of a central qualification and networking offer (e.g. subject-specific and interdisciplinary qualification, teaching and didactics, scientific discourse and peer-to-peer exchange)
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Management, coordination & quality assurance in doctoral studies
- Service & Support
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For individual advice or administrative support, please contact the Graduate Academy team by email to arrange an appointment.
- Suggestions, ideas & complaint management
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Through feedback, you give us the opportunity for further development, which we want to use. Ideas, suggestions, feedback or even complaints about events, services or promotion conditions can be submitted via our contact form contact form.
- Scientific integrity
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In case of suspicion of scientific misconduct, please contact the ombudswoman for ensuring good scientific practice, Prof. Dr. Tanja Barton.
- Crisis & Conflict Management
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In conflict and crisis situations, we can help with mediation with the support of Ms. Prof. Dr. Cristina Lenz and collegial case counselling.
Often, even a clarifying conversation can help.
Use the contact form or contact Michaela Stegman directly to briefly describe your concerns - please include your name so that we can help.
Doing a doctorate at the HSWT: General information on doing a doctorate
Is it even possible to do a doctorate at HSWT? Yes, in any case! Here you will find an overview of the ways in which you are led to a doctorate:
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Cooperative promotion
At the HSWT, young researchers can do their doctorate in cooperation with a national or international university that has the right to award doctorates.
The doctorate is awarded by the cooperating university, and the doctorate is supervised by two experienced academics (usually professors) from both institutions, the cooperating university and the HSWT. The doctoral students can benefit from the professional expertise of both experienced supervisors and from the combination of practice-oriented research of the University of applied sciences and the additional know-how of the university. Supervision is regulated by a supervision agreement, which is a prerequisite at the university for registration on the doctoral list. The framework conditions of the doctorate, requirements and accompanying programmes are regulated by the corresponding doctoral regulations of the cooperating universities.
Universities of applied sciences, such as the HSWT, do not have a comprehensive right to award doctorates in Bavaria. However, since the Higher Education Innovation Act came into force at the beginning of 2023, doctoral centres with the right to award doctorates can also be set up at Bavarian HAW - this will offer new options for doctorates at our University of applied sciences in the future.
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BayWISS joint doctorate
A special form of cooperative doctorate is the doctorate in one of the eleven thematically limited collaborative research colleges of the Bavarian Science Forum - BayWISS. A prerequisite for the BayWISS Collaborative Doctorate is cooperative supervision with a Bavarian university. The BayWISS Research Training Groups are topic-specific platforms and networks for young and experienced researchers. They strengthen the culture of scientific exchange between Bavarian HAWs and universities. The BayWISS research colleges offer young researchers great qualification and networking formats, such as regular network meetings, doctoral colloquia and interdisciplinary further education. You can find the offers of the HSWT's Life Sciences and Green Technologies Research Training Group here: https://life-sciences.baywiss.de/angebot
You can find all further information at the Bavarian Science Forum.
The HSWT participates in the following BayWISS research colleges:
- Life Sciences & Green Technology
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Founded in December 2018 with the University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf and the University of Bayreuth.
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HSWT acts as the host university.
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Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jörg Ewald (HSWT)
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Coordination: Dr. Ute Nazet (HSWT)
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- Infrastructure, Construction & Urbanisation
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HSWT became a member university in May 2021.
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Contact person HSWT: Prof. Dr. Swantje Duthweiler
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Coordination: Dr. Cordula Burtscher and Sylvia Summerer (HS Munich)
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- Economics and Business
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HSWT became a member university in July 2021.
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Contact person HSWT: Prof. Dr. Cristina Lenz
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Coordination: Dr. Kristina Klitzke (University of Regensburg)
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University's own doctoral centre with the right to award doctorates
The Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act provides for the award of an independent right to award doctorates for research-intensive areas at HAWs. The application for the right to award a doctorate for the doctoral centre Applied Life Sciences is planned and in progress at the HSWT.
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More information about the promotion
ZEIT Campus - Doctoral Guide! - The recently published doctoral guidebook from ZEIT Campus is aimed at doctoral students in all doctoral phases and presents many tips for the dissertation. The guide is available free of charge at the Graduate Academy and can also be downloaded online. download online.
Your path to a doctorate: Information for those interested in a doctorate
You have a Master's degree or are about to do so and are interested in current scientific topics and innovative sustainable developments? You have already gained professional experience after your Master's degree but would like to do research with practical relevance and are ready for new challenges? Then a doctorate at our University of applied sciences could be the right thing for you!
According to the Bavarian Higher Education Act, the aim of a doctorate is to "train the next generation of academics" and serves as "proof of the ability to carry out in-depth academic work". This well-founded training of young scientists and the assurance of the scientific quality of the increasing research activities are central concerns of the HSWT.
As a University of applied sciences, the HSWT does not currently have its own right to award doctorates. Nevertheless, outstanding graduates have the opportunity to obtain a doctorate through a cooperative doctoral procedure in collaboration with universities. Changes are expected when the Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act comes into force.
These are the questions you should ask yourself before you start a doctorate
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Is a doctorate something for me?
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What requirements do I have to meet?
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What types of doctorate are there?
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Can I do a doctorate at an HAW? (Yes, you can!)
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How can I find a suitable topic and a doctoral supervisor?
Answers to these and other questions can be found here.
You haven't found what you're looking for and want more specific information? Then please contact our contact person on the topic of doctoral studies.
Info for professors & doctoral supervisors
Research professors at the HSWT who take on the responsible task of supervising and training young academics within the framework of a cooperative doctorate are rewarded for this with release hours. The criteria for this are the entry of a doctoral project in the doctoral list of the cooperatively supervising university and the successful completion of the dissertation. For both of these milestones, supervising professors can receive 1 SWS teaching credit each (0.5 SWS per semester for the following academic year).
Are you supervising a doctorate at the HSWT and do you have any questions? Then please contact graduiertenakademie@hswt.de.
