Coaching
Coaching is a form of professional development where a coach helps individuals achieve specific goals, such as completing a dissertation, planning a career, or transitioning to the postdoc, phase by offering training and guidance. This process typically involves several personal consultations to develop an academic career plan, address work challenges, and outline the next steps to be taken.
To be funded by the DFG’s Standard Allowance for Equal Opportunity Measures, coaches must have specific training and focus on particular objectives relevant to your academic career.
Coaching measures offered through equal opportunity funds must address female researchers’ career advancement or help promote diversity within the research alliance.
Further information:
- You can find coaches on the website of Coachingnetz Wissenschaft e.V.
- Various portals, such as Coach-Datenbank and the Portal für Coaches & Trainer, offer a wide selection of coaches.
Additionally Hochschulcoaching Berlin ( “Academic Coaching Berlin”) offers coaching, supervision, conflict resolution, and mediation for PhD students, postdocs, and academic staff affiliated with Berlin universities and institutions of higher education. PhD students without university position at a university are also welcome.
Coaches with special expertise in gender and diversity issues can be found on the website of the Bundeskonferenz der Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten an Hochschulen e.V.
