What leads to excellence in research? What are the ingredients for success?
Besides curiosity, talent, perseverance and, of course, hard work, structural support is a crucial factor. Two doctoral schools and 16 doctoral programmes were established at the Faculty of Humanities.
The doctoral schools are initiatives that promote a culture of supervision on the one hand and create an institutional framework for quality assurance on the other. Benefit from the fact that, in addition to individual supervision, a community of researchers is available as discussion partners and, if required, as mentors.
► Doctoral School of Research in Humanities: Founding declaration / Members of the doctoral school
► Doctoral School of Didactics:
The doctoral programme "Language didactics and language/learning research" is offered within the doctoral school (read more), see below.
► Doctoral programmes:
After admission to the doctoral study, you can apply for admission to a doctoral programme. These doctoral programmes are a great additional offer and promote excellent qualifications.
Doctoral programmes at the University of Graz are an association of five to a maximum of fifteen habilitated academics from the same, similar or completely different subject areas, which offer a high-quality and attractive additional programme for a limited number of doctoral students on an overarching research topic and promote professional exchange.
There are 16 doctoral programmes with differentiated content available for your excellent qualification - make your choice!
"Ancient Cultures of the Mediterranean (AKMe)" is a cross-institutional and cross-faculty teaching, research and discussion platform of the Universities of Graz and Innsbruck. Joint and interdisciplinary events give you the opportunity to present dissertation projects and your own research and to discuss them with colleagues.
Are you interested in the complex topic of climate change? The central concern of the international PhD programme on "Climate Change" is the promotion of interdisciplinarity. In addition to methodological support, you will benefit from interdisciplinary exchange and supervision by post-doctoral researchers from different disciplines.
Are you interested in complex systems and their interactions? Do you want to contribute to further research on this topic of the future? Unique in Austria and internationally established the profile-building COLIBRI programme incorporates existing expertise at the University of Graz is bundled in the profile-building area COLIBRI. Let this doctoral program support and and promote you and your dissertation project.
If your dissertation is focused on history or political didactics, you have come to the right place. This doctoral programme offers a forum for theoretical and methodological questions and discussions and it provides contacts with experts in the field of history didactics as well as intra- and inter-university networking.
Teachers from all faculties are involved in this programme and likewise students from all faculties are also welcomed. The programme is designed to provide your with breadth and broad support in the field of gender studies. It can be attended throughout your doctoral degree or just for one semester.
If you are interested in the history of theory and empiricism in your field, in the sociology of science, or in the biography of individual scientists, this is the programme for you: Then this programme is your first choice! In addition to an annual international Spring School, the program also offers its own certificate.
Where is the "human factor" in the development, implementation and use of ICT products, services and processes? This question is the focus of the doctoral program "Human Factor in Digital Transformation". Let yourself be guided across disciplines and faculties by scientists from the fields of business analytics, digital humanities, fundamental theology, economics, philosophy, psychology, law, sociology and systems science.
If you are a graduate in literature, cultural studies, social sciences or law, you are welcome to join this programme. The aim of the programme is an interdisciplinary examination of the theoretical and methodological implications of the concepts of "text" and "action" for dealing with questions in cultural studies.
Human rights affect all disciplines - which is why this programme brings together professors from all faculties and also PhD students from all fields of study. The programme is taught in English and part of it is held as a PhD workshop in Venice. This gives you the opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues from other universities and to present your dissertation projects to a broad international audience.
The programme "Migration-Diversity-Global Societies" offers you networking within an interdisciplinary research landscape, as well as professional feedback and support by a team of experts. Support is available at all stage the choice of your topic to publication projects. The programme is designed for doctoral students of all faculties,
Professors from four faculties of the University of Graz (the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Sociel Sciences as well as the Faculty of Theology ) are involved in this programme. You can participate as a philosopher, but also as a scientist from another discipline. Benefit from the variety of different methods and theories, the interdisciplinary support as well as the international networking.
The aim of this programme is to connect teachers and students internationally through interdisciplinary events (parlour talks, guest lectures, doctoral colloquia, lecture series). You are welcome to dedicate your doctoral thesis to a topic from the "long" 18th century.
This forum for theoretical and methodological questions in the field of language didactics, language teaching/learning research and foreign language acquisition research is part of the Doctoral School of Specialized Didactics and is open to its members. It promotes interdisciplinary professional exchange and enriches through international colloquia and reading circles.
Are you interested in a dissertation related to Southeastern Europe? Then this is the right program for you as a doctoral student from the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, or the Faculty of Theology! You can expect an innovative and international learning platform, formed by doctoral students, professors and international guest experts. Contribute to the modernization of Area Studies and especially to the exploration of new, interdisciplinary questions and perspectives concerning Southeastern Europe.
Being human and the constantly changing ideas about it are the focus of this programme. Explore cultural and media studies as well as artistic perspectives heralded by the globally effective transformation processes of the "Anthropocene" and "Technocene".
More about the doctoral programme [only in German]
Myth of the Mediterranean - the Mediterranean in temporal, spatial and thematically broad contexts is the focus of this interdisciplinary study. Make it your task to identify complex interdependencies, influences and factors and to uncover one or two secrets through innovative approaches.
Are you interested in boundaries and border crossings between media and the arts and would like to understand and explore aesthetic conceptions and their impact on image creators and recipients? This programme gives you the opportunity to explore the meaning, intention, reception and context of the visual across all academic disciplines and to analyze its effects in a socio-critical way.