If you would like to do a doctorate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, you can do so as a research assistant, for example. In this case, you will work at one of the faculty's professorships and, in addition to your doctorate, you will take on teaching tasks and usually also supervise seminar papers and theses. Positions as a research assistant are advertised by the respective professorships as needed. If you are hired, the holder of the professorship is also the supervisor of your doctoral thesis. In addition, you can also do your doctorate as a staff member in a research training group or doctoral programme that is financed by a third party. An overview of the research training groups and doctoral programmes of the Göttingen Graduate School for the Social Sciences (GGG) can be found here. You also have the possibility to do your doctorate alongside your (external) job or to finance your doctoral studies, for example, through scholarships from organisations and foundations.
Certain admission requirements must be fulfilled for admission to doctoral studies. Above all, for example, you must have a confirmation of supervision from a professor confirming that he or she will supervise your written thesis.
Doctoral students wishing to commence their doctoral studies programme in summer semester need to submit their application documents to the Office of the Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences by March 15th. For the winter semester, the deadline is September 15th of each year.
All required application documents must be submitted by the deadline as one PDF document by e-mail to the following e-mail address: studiendekanat@sowi.uni-goettingen.de
The Graduate Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences will decide whether you can be admitted (if necessary under conditions) promptly after the application deadline. A decision will be submitted by post.
Please address any questions about the application directly to:
Martin Ertelt
Office of the Dean of Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Georg-August-University Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3 (Room 1.112, Oeconomicum)
37073 Göttingen
Phone: +49 (0)551/39-26540
E-Mail: Martin.Ertelt-1@sowi.uni-goettingen.de
ADDRESS
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Studiendekanat der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
Martin Ertelt
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3
37073 Göttingen
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Studiendekanat der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
Annegret Schallmann
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3
37073 Göttingen