EMF: Mastering your Interdisciplinary Career (Marburg)
- Attendance:
- Online event
- Event location:
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg – online
- Event Organizer:
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- Philipps Universität Marburg/MARA
- Category:
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- Workshop
- Target groups:
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- Doctoral candidates
- Postdoktorand:innen/Postdocs
- Sprache:
- english
Event language: English
„Mastering your Interdisciplinary Career“ supports you in effectively positioning yourself and your research profile within the academic system.
You will engage with the challenges, opportunities, and key strategic aspects of interdisciplinary career development. The workshop focuses on sharpening your research profile, communicating interdisciplinary research convincingly such as in the context of conferences or third-party funding applications and developing strategic perspectives for individual career planning. With this workshop you are taking initial steps toward establishing yourself in the academic landscape with a clearly defined interdisciplinary approach that is both impactful and sustainable.
Qualification Outcomes
After the workshop, you will be able to
- Explain fundamental principles of strategic career planning within interdisciplinary contexts and apply them to your own career path.
- Implement key techniques of interdisciplinary communication, particularly when engaging with diverse expert audiences.
- Strengthen the persuasiveness of your own interdisciplinary profile and gain confidence in navigating professional roles across disciplinary boundaries.
- Strategically build and expand a tailored expert network aligned with your own specific research focus.
- Use future-relevant key competencies ("future skills") and reflect their role in interdisciplinary career trajectories.
Methods
Expert inputs, mind mapping, guided self-reflection, peer-to-peer exchange, group work
Requirements
You will be asked to fill out a short pre-workshop survey.
To participate in the online event you need a PC/laptop with a current browser (recommended: Chrome or Firefox) as well as a headset (or speakers and microphone), a webcam plus a stable Internet connection.
You need to register once in our database to use MARA offers.
More information about this event
Event location:
Philipps-Universität Marburg – online
Event Organizer:
Philipps Universität Marburg/MARA
Contact:
Ruth Navel
Philipps-Universität Marburg
MArburg University Research Academy
Postdocprogramm MARA
06421 28 21333
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Lecturer:
Dr. Iris Mencke
Dr. Iris Mencke is a researcher, trainer, and systemic coach specializing in interdisciplinary competence and career development. She holds a PhD in psychology with a research focus on the neural basis of creative processes and has worked for over a decade as a project leader in international, interdisciplinary research groups. As the founder of Interdisciplinary Minds, she offers seminars and trainings aimed at strengthening interdisciplinary skills and supports professionals in fostering successful collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. Her work centers on developing innovative methodological approaches in complex interdisciplinary settings, and on creating collaborative, reflective, and resilient forms of working together.