Doctoral Program

The PhD Program at ZeMKI will conduct Exposé Workshops for First Year PhD Candidates this November. The goal is to discuss drafts and skeletons of PhD Exposés in the peer group under the guidance of (…)

From September 28 to October 2, 2025, a group of ZeMKI PhD students participated in a writing retreat on the island of Spiekeroog, located in the Wadden Sea National Park. The retreat offered participants the (…)

The Writing Retreat 2024 to this year is scheduled from September 16 to September 20. This Writing Week is designed to support the academic progress of doctoral candidates by providing an environment perfectly suited for (…)

We are pleased to invite you to our workshop “Academic Project Management.” Effective time management and self-organization is a prerequisite for graduates. But how do you manage to structure your everyday life and keep your (…)

We are pleased to invite you to our workshop “Successfully Connecting Theory and Methods in the Thesis.” Learn from Prof. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger and Prof. Stephanie Geise how to effectively integrate theoretical and (…)

We are excited to invite you to a method-focused seminar on the integration of qualitative interviews and digital behavioral data, hosted by Lisa Merten from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research. The seminar will consist (…)

Summer schools are an important avenue to methodological competence, particularly in specialized and fast-moving fields of research. However, summer school applications often need to be prepared quite far in advance, making careful planning especially important. (…)

Minds, Media, Machines Integrated Graduate School (MMMIGS) and ZeMKI are hosting a workshop about data visualization for doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers. The workshop takes place on March 15, from 9:00-17:00 at the University of (…)

As part of our PhD program, we cordially invite you to a workshop on strategies in academic publishing. This workshop is an opportunity for both beginners and advanced academic publishers to gain deeper insights and (…)

As part of our PhD program, we are pleased to invite you to the workshop “Practical Tips for the Writing Process”. This workshop offers participants of all levels of experience the opportunity to hone their (…)

As part of our PhD program, we cordially invite you to the workshop “Productivity Tools (AI) for Academic Work”. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Cornelius Puschmann and Prof. Karsten Wolf as experts who will (…)

At our PhD Onboarding meeting we will warmly welcome new PhD students to the ZeMKI program. We will discuss current issues relevant to the program and present the schedule for the upcoming semester. Additionally, you’ll (…)