The graduate school’s purpose is to ensure the quality of structured doctoral programs. Responsibilities and goals in particular include:
- supporting the ongoing development of structured doctoral programs in the faculty and involving the faculty
- promoting cooperation between Universität Hamburg and non-university research institutions within structured doctoral programs
- funding and promoting projects initiated and conducted by doctoral researchers at the graduate school
- promoting internationalization in structured doctoral programs
- promoting equal opportunity and the ability to combine a scientific career with family life
The graduate school’s bylaws set forth responsibilities and goals.
The graduate school has a board consisting of the school’s spokesperson, the heads of the externally funded research training groups, and 2 doctoral researcher representatives. The school’s spokesperson is the acting vice dean for internationalization and support for doctoral and early career researchers.
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Seifert (spokesperson)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ivana Rentsch (Research Training Group Understanding Written Artefacts)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kristin Merle (LFF-Research Training Group Krise – Kritik – Kohäsion)
- N.N. (Doctoral researchers’ representatives)
Welcome event for doctoral students of the Graduate School 2025
The Graduate School Board is delighted that you have decided to pursue a doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities this year. We would like to invite you to an informal pre-Christmas meeting, which will give you the opportunity to get to know each other and ask any questions you may have about the doctorate.
When: Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Where: Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, West Wing, 1st floor, Room 124 (Photo Library)
Please register by December 12, 2025.
Register now