A PhD is an important career step for anyone aiming for an academic career or wishing to further their professional or pedagogical development and influence the shaping of the education system. To achieve your goals, you must first be clear about how a PhD fits into your own life plans.

After all, you will be working intensively on a specific subject area for several years and, during this time, you will need the personal energy and financial resources to take your project forward at an academic level.

Your chosen PhD topic should be innovative and relevant to the further development of the school and vocational education system. Most importantly, however, you must be genuinely interested in it yourself. Have any questions or areas of interest arisen during your degree or your work as a teacher that you would like to explore in greater depth? Provided your topic aligns with the subject focus and profile of teacher training, we will be happy to support you. You can also find inspiration for choosing a topic in the project descriptions by professors at the University of Oldenburg in the DiZ Research Information System.