Webcast: First audition? Applying for (junior-)professorships

Details

Date & Time: on personal demand, 3.75 hrs
Location: Webcast (Video on Demand)
Target group: Junior Faculty of the UA Ruhr universities (Habilitation Candidates, Junior Research Group Leaders, Junior Professors)
Trainer:  Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrandt
Registration deadline: webcast available on personal demand at any time until 31.03.2026

Contact for organizational questions: event@rs.ruhr-uni.bochum.de

Description

How to participate:
You can work through this webcast independently and on your own schedule. After registering for the workshop, you will receive an email with a link offering full access to the course. The video is 3.75 hours long.

The aim of the video is to inform you in detail about all phases of the appointment procedure for W1 to W3 professorships in Germany and to provide you with specific assistance and tips for your application.

The video first deals with the procedure and formal aspects of the appointment process. Then all the necessary application documents (especially CV, cover letter, concepts) are discussed in detail and illustrated in part with sample materials. In the third part, the expectations and requirements in the hearing with the appointment committee as well as important preparation steps are discussed. You will receive tips and short demonstrations on how to structure your scientific presentation and teaching demonstration. In addition, the most frequently asked questions and topics in the committee interview are presented.

The webcast offers the following additional material: handout, worksheet for analyzing advertisements for professorships, 2 sample CVs, sample teaching concept, 2 formulation and structuring examples for the research concept, list of collected questions from committee interviews.

To supplement the webcast, individual coaching sessions with the trainer can be booked. Please contact ursula.justus@rs.rub.de. 

Trainer

Dr Dieta Kuchenbrandt is a qualified psychologist with additional training as a coach and management consultant (German Psychologists Academy). After several years as a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University and as a substitute professor at Osnabrück University, she is now a freelance lecturer, consultant and coach specialising in the needs of academics. Her work focuses on academic career planning and applications for professorships and postdoctoral positions.

* In order to provide you with a comfortable registration process, we use registration forms of our service partner eveeno®. Please note the information on the allocation of places on the program overview page.