PhD Candidate and Parent

[Translate to Englisch:] Promovieren mit Kind

The Graduate Center of Trier University (GUT) is once again announcing the funding program “PhD Candidate and Parent”. The university management is funding this support program for young academics as part of its measures as a certified family-friendly university.

The program supports doctoral students who are exposed to multiple burdens due to raising children and doing a doctorate by providing them with a student assistant. This student assistant relieves the doctoral students with children by carrying out simple auxiliary scientific tasks, such as library loans, laboratory work, reviewing material or proofreading.

Junior researchers with children who are doing their doctorate at Trier University are eligible to apply. Priority is given to single mothers and fathers, but non-single mothers and fathers are also eligible if sufficient funds are available. The funding measure is expected to be approved from July to November or January to May with a weekly working time of 4 hours for the student assistant. Applicants must make their own efforts to find an assistant from their own department (usually students on a Bachelor's degree course, in justified cases also students on a Master's degree course).


Application
The following documents are required for the application:

  • Short cover letter explaining why you are applying for the funding program, what you see as the benefit of support from an assistant in your doctoral project and initial plans for the assistant's areas of responsibility
  • Application form: “PhD Candidate and Parent”
  • Curriculum vitae in tabular form
  • Short synopsis of the doctoral project with information on the status of the work (max. 2 pages)
  • Supervisor's report (max. 1 page with brief information on the status of the doctorate and a short explanation of why the funding measure would be particularly beneficial for the applicant)
  • Certificate of registration of the doctorate at Trier University

Please send your application by e-mail to the Graduate Center of Trier University (gut@uni-trier.de). There you will also receive further information on the application procedure.

 

Application deadlines are April 30 and October 31
Funding begins on July 1 and January 1 accordingly


Note: Multiple funding is possible (maximum of 3 funding periods).


Further information and advice:

Graduate Center Trier University (GUT)
Contact person: Tara Partetzke, M.Sc.
Room: DM 18
E-mail: gut@uni-trier.de
Phone: +49 651 201 - 3162

Consultation request

If you still have questions about the “Doctoral studies with children” funding program or would like advice on how to apply, you are welcome to provide a brief description of the situation and an appointment request below. Consultation hours take place on Wednesdays from 8 am to 10 am.

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Some voices of funded doctoral candidates

„I benefited greatly from this support. Not only the time saved, but also the personal contact with the student assistant was very inspiring and enlightening."

„I benefited greatly from the 'PhD Candidate and Parenting' funding. The support from the assistant enabled me to concentrate on my dissertation project. And thanks to the support, I was able to gain time to spend with my child.“

„Very helpful, and even if the child is ill and you wouldn't normally get any further with your work, you can phone the assistant and discuss things that she can do, and then be pleased that a little bit of the big text is making progress again."

"Not only the fact that the assistant (...) provides support, but also the fact that there is someone at your side with whom you can discuss the progress of your work every week, has enabled me to make great progress in the last five months.“