We start with our eagerly awaited Doctoral Candidates' Day 2026 on 11 June. In the evening, we will hand over the baton for the 1st Digital Humanities Day at the University of Oldenburg. Just one week later, the legendary Science Slam will take place on 17 June.

Of course, we also provide our members with workshops to help them progress with their own dissertation. We particularly recommend two workshops on academic writing.

Are you in the middle of the writing process or in the final spurt of your monographic dissertation and would now like to revise your texts so that they are convincing in terms of content, argumentation and language? And you are wondering which approach makes the most sense?
This two-part workshop provides you with knowledge and strategies for revising academic texts systematically. The focus is on the monograph text type. In the two short workshops, you will try out strategies for the step-by-step revision of raw texts with regard to content, argumentation, reading style, language and academic style. The revision methods presented can be applied directly to your own dissertation texts.

Revising academic texts I: Content and argumentation
Revising academic texts II: Reading style, language and academic style

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Are you at the beginning of your doctoral project and would like to write a cumulative dissertation? And you are wondering how you can best approach the planning of your cumulative dissertation? What do you need to bear in mind and what's the deal with the jacket text (also known as the "introduction", "synopsis" or "outline")?
In this workshop, we will discuss important formal and content-related questions about the cumulative dissertation. With the help of guiding questions and visualisation methods, you will develop or review an initial plan for your research papers and an overarching common thread for the dissertation (workshop part 1). In the second part of the workshop, we will work on the central elements of an exposé for cumulative dissertations. The aim is to develop a clear and realistic plan for your doctoral project. You will learn how to write a doctoral exposé and tailor it to the interests of your addressees (such as doctoral supervisors, scholarship donors or graduate programmes). In the workshop, you can develop a text framework for your own doctoral exposé or receive peer feedback on already written drafts.

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