Doctoral Schools and Doctoral Forums
What leads to excellence in research? What are the ingredients for success?
Besides curiosity, talent, perseverance and, of course, hard work, the decisive factors during doctoral studies are excellent conditions and targeted support. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities supports you throughout your doctoral studies and offers you:
Two Doctoral Schools
Numerous Doctoral Forums and Doctoral Programmes: here you find a research-intensive environment, opportunities to connect with the relevant scientific community, and a supportive peer culture – creating the best conditions for high-quality dissertations and successful academic careers!
Doctoral Schools:
Doctoral schools are initiatives which, on the one hand, promote a culture of supervision and, on the other, create an institutional framework for quality assurance. Take advantage of the fact that, in addition to individual supervision, a community of researchers is available as discussion partners and, where required, as mentors.
- Doctoral School for Humanities Research: Founding Declaration / Members of the Doctoral School
- Doctoral School for Subject Didactics: Within this doctoral school (more information), the doctoral programme ‘Language Didactics and Language Teaching Research’ is offered; see below.
Doctoral Forums:
Once you have been admitted to the doctoral programme, you can apply for membership of a doctoral forum. Doctoral forums at the University of Graz are groups comprising between five and a maximum of fifteen researchers with habilitation status who offer a high-quality and attractive supplementary programme on an overarching research topic to a limited number of doctoral students.
The listed doctoral programmes will also be transferred to doctoral forums in the near future.
The following doctoral forums and doctoral programmes are available to you – make your choice!
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 forum support and and promote you and your dissertation project.
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 forum "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.
Teachers from all faculties are involved in this forum and likewise students from all faculties are also welcomed. The forum 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 a graduate in literature, cultural studies, social sciences or law, you are welcome to join this forum. The aim of the forum is an interdisciplinary examination of the theoretical and methodological implications of the concepts of "text" and "action" for dealing with questions in cultural studies.
The aim of this forum 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.
Human rights affect all disciplines - which is why this forum brings together professors from all faculties and also PhD students from all fields of study. The forum 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 forum "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 forum is designed for doctoral students of all faculties,
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.
Being human and the constantly changing ideas about it are the focus of this forum. Explore cultural and media studies as well as artistic perspectives heralded by the globally effective transformation processes of the "Anthropocene" and "Technocene".
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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 forum 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.
Doktorale Programmes
"Ancient Cultures of the Mediterranean” 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.
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.
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.