Doctoral seminar - virtual across countries

Doctoral candidates from six chairs (Prof. Leimeister and Söllner from the University of Kassel; Prof. Leimeister, Brenner, Back and Seufert from the HSG) attended the three days, presented their dissertation projects and took part in the discussion. "The virtual format has advantages and disadvantages," says Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, one of the supervising professors. "For the doctoral students, it is a very good opportunity to present their research - but also open questions - in a short video; what is clearly missing in this format is social interaction, such as eating together or playing football after the hard work of thinking." The new format was received differently by the doctoral candidates; most of them prefer to meet in person, but were positive about the feedback culture in the virtual format. The use of Miro-Boards (see image below) made it possible to provide well-founded feedback on the individual videos and to structure the discussion. However, the concentrated screen work over several hours was very exhausting and: "The joint after-work beer was definitely missing... "

The aim of this seminar is to advance the respective dissertation project through intensive discussions with doctoral students from other chairs as well as professors and post-docs. In addition, the feedback gained in this workshop is intended to provide new ideas and impetus for your own dissertation project and to build peer groups through links to the topics of other participants.