Council of Doctoral Candidates

Who we are

As PhD candidates, we are faced with many problems, be it financing and planning our own project or coordinating our careers and private lives. It is therefore all the more surprising that PhD candidates are not a status group in their own right in Hesse and accordingly have no officially elected representatives on university committees. At the same time, doctoral candidates make up a large part of the university's mid-level faculty and are thus indispensable for university operations. For this purpose, the PhD Candidates Initiative was founded. This initiative, with the support of GRADE, managed to initiate a university-wide representation of PhD candidates: The PhD Candidates Association came together and was officially elected into office on November 13, 2019 in a plenary meeting.

The PhD Candidates Association is the network of doctoral candidates at Goethe University. Each faculty is invited to establish their own faculty convention and elect their respective spokespersons. These spokespersons represent the doctoral candidates at the faculty level and are now often represented in the faculty councils and doctoral committees either as guests or voting members. Faculty representatives are automatically part of the PhD Candidates Council, the body that represents all faculties collectively and discusses university-wide issues. The PhD Candidates Council elects several members from among its members who form the Executive Board. The board represents the doctoral candidates on various committees, such as the GRADE Board of Directors, or the Goethe University Senate, and coordinates the PhD candidates’ meetings. In addition to these elected bodies, all PhD candidates can contact the PhD Candidates Council with topics or problems in order to propose and collaborate on working groups.


Council of Doctoral Candidates Representatives

Current Board Members

 
 
   
  Iris Arndt
  Faculty 11 - Geosciences/Geography
   
     
  Christina König
  Faculty 03 - Social Sciences
   
     
  Melanie Lauffenburger
  Faculty 11 - Geosciences/Geography
   
     
  Jonathan Vogt
   Faculty 03 - Social Sciences
   

Deputy members

 
 
   
  Hans Goerdten
  Faculty 03 - Social Sciences
   
   
  Justus Schmidt
  Faculty 01 - Law 
   

 
   
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Representatives in the Senate

 
 
   
  Katja Wächtershäuser
  Faculty 15 - Physical Biology
   
     
  Jan Zimmermann
  Faculty 13 - Physics
   

Representatives in the Senate commission for the concerns of Early Career Researchers

     
  Julius Adam
  Faculty 15 - Physical Biology
   

 
   
  Christina Engelmann
  Faculty 08 - Philosophy and History
   

 
   
  Jonathan Vogt
  Faculty 03 - Social Sciences
   

Contact

The Council of Doctoral Candidates Representatives can be reached by email at promovierendenkonvent@grade.uni-frankfurt.de or promrat@uni-frankfurt.de


Announcements

In the course of the discussion that has developed around the Bayreuth Declaration, the Doctoral Convention has adopted the following statement:
  >>> download statement (in german)
   
Corona support for doctoral candidates:
  >>> download (in german)
   
Position paper of the Doctoral Council on the current conflict situation in the academic self-administration at the Goethe University:
  >>> download (in german)
   

You will find the protocols of the Council of Doctoral Candidates in the right sidebar.