Welcome to the University of Oldenburg!
As Vice President for Early Career Researchers and Equal Opportunities, you as doctoral candidates and all issues concerning you are particularly close to my heart. As you will most likely be entering unfamiliar territory when you start your doctorate, this guide is intended to help you find the right place to go when questions or problems arise in connection with your doctorate. We also hope that this compilation will provide you with information and introduce you to organisational units that you might otherwise not have encountered until much later.
The promotion of early career researchers also plays a very important role for the university as a whole. This is reflected in the fact that a number of strategic concepts have been developed at the University of Oldenburg in recent years which, for example, deal with favourable framework conditions and personnel development in responsibility for early career researchers or specifically address fast-track doctorates or the support of early career researchers with doctorates such as tenure-track professorships (https://uol.de/graduiertenakademie/strategisches). These concepts are designed to create the best possible conditions for you as a junior researcher to progress in your academic work.
I wish you every success with your doctorate, much pleasure in your academic work and all the best for this special phase of your life!
Yours sincerely
Prof Dr Annett Thiele
Vice President for Early Career Researchers and Equal Opportunities