Registration ended on 17.4.2026

Goals of the forum
A PhD thesis is a long journey that is demanding on many different levels: the topical focus, the theoretical foundations, and the methodological approaches build the core of every PhD thesis, and are enhanced by the development of the equally important soft skills. This forum offers an interdisciplinary space for exchange with other candidates from the School of Sustainability about your PhD thesis, to workshop and test ideas outside of the box, and to present important milestones of your journey.
We’ll jointly set the agenda and facilitate each session according to the groups needs and interests: may it be literature research, methodological questions, or how to keep your motivation level up.
Our aim is to take an emergent perspective on the challenges that PhDs are facing, to use the synergies within the forum to come up with solutions, and to make the PhD journey a collective endeavour.

We meet every Wednesday from 10 to 11am in C40.533.

Henrik joins every two weeks, and those slots are for presenting our work or asking for specific input from Henrik. The presenting PhD organizes their respective slot, invites colleagues or supervisors, assigns roles to others for moderation, feedback etc.

Every other week, the slots are organized by the PhD group without Henrik being present, and we use them how we need them: inviting someone for specific input, checking in on how we are doing, workshop-ing something together etc.

If you are interested or have any questions, feel free to contact Elisabeth Frank via elisabeth.frank@leuphana.de

Further information on teaching evaluation: https://www.leuphana.de/en/teaching/quality-management/feedback-instruments.html