Mentoring Programme for Postdocs
Postdocs at CSMC/UWA can join a one-year mentoring programme run in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities and aimed at supporting their personal and professional growth.
Through participating in one-on-one meetings with a mentor, group meetings to reflect on the mentoring process, peer-mentoring groups, career development workshops, and informal online meetings with mentors and mentees, programme participants gain in-depth knowledge about careers in and outside academia and develop self-reflection skills and career-planning skills. Moreover, these multiple mentoring formats offer ample opportunities for networking within and across status groups and often also open up concrete opportunities for career advancement.
Designed to equalise career opportunities, our mentoring programme is programmatically non-selective and non-competitive. It aims to be an open and safe space for reflection and exchange on participants’ individual and collective experiences within academia, and it is meant to support both academic and non-academic career orientations.
In its inaugural run, in 2021/22, the programme was opened to all female postdocs at CSMC/UWA. For its second edition, in 2023/24, the programme was tailored to international postdocs of all genders. Scholars from institutions in Germany, Europe, China, and the US joined the programme as mentors. See here for an overview of the 2023/24 programme:
The programme is directed by our Head of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, Martin Jörg Schäfer, and the Equal Opportunity Commissioner of the Faculty of Humanities; it is coordinated by our Equal Opportunity Coordinator, Mariapaola Gritti, and the Equal Opportunity Advisor of the Faculty of Humanities. For more information about the programme, please contact Mariapaola Gritti: mariapaola.gritti"AT"uni-hamburg.de.