Workshop "Career Planning for Female Postdoctoral Scientists in Marine Sciences"

Duration and date:  Thur, Feb 18th & Fri, Feb 19th 2016 (both days 09:00-17:00h)
Oriented to: female postdoctoral scientists active in the SFB 754, IMAP and via:mento_ocean
Place: CAU Kiel, Leibnizstr. 1, room 106a

Details:
The main goals of the workshop are to reflect the participants’ individual career strategies and to develop individualised visions and career aims that are referred back to existing skills, experiences and role expectations. Furthermore, classical as well as hidden career elements will be explored and solutions to handle both will be discussed. The workshop will give the opportunity to reflect on other than pure scientific aspects of academic careers and their importance. There will be room to discuss the consequences of being a postdoctoral researcher, to reflect on this role in the academic system and its consequences for individual competence development. Participants will recognize all the achievements and accomplishments they have managed until today, identify doable career pushes and get the chance to plan next career steps in order to reach their individual career aim without leaving out possible alternatives. 
The workshop was led by Dr. Monika Clausen (Zürich, www.clausen-netzwerkpartner.ch).

 

Application to professorship: A workshop on appointment procedures in Germany

Duration and date: 23th & 24th Nov. 2015, daily 9.00 – 17.00 h
Oriented to: Female postdocs in SFB 754, GEOMAR, IMAP, via:mento_ocean
Place: Kiel University, Leibnizstr. 1, room 104b

Every scientist who decides to stay permanently in academia eventually faces what is supposed to be career’s hardest challenge: Applying for full professorship. In this seminar, we deal with your written application as well as topic-related and strategic advice for your selection interview, application presentation and demonstration lecture. We focus on different aspects of the appointment procedures, such as typical and critical questions during the selection interview, potential snares during the demonstration lecture or ambivalent interests among the members of the audition committee.
Moreover, we work on how to present yourself and your academic profile successfully and how to emphasize your particular expertise. Participants can receive detailed feedback on their individual application documents. The workshop was offered in cooperation of via:mento_ocean and GEOMARs Women’s Executive Board. It was led by Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrandt (Düsseldorf, schainundkuchenbrandt.com). More here. 

 

Assertiveness and Self-Defence Training for all Female Scientists active in the SFB 754 
(several trainings since Oktober 2013)

Duration and date: 12 sessions á 1,5 hours
1 session per week: Thursdays, 16.45-18.15h
Place: GEOMAR, westshore building (large conference room)

Content: 
The training gives participants insights into ways of assertiveness and self-defence. The main goal is to get to know personal strengths and weaknesses and to reflect on personal limits and possibilities by training a wide range of both verbal and non-verbal assertiveness skills. The participants get the opportunity to find individual approaches to the topics covered by the training. Each session has a specific topics, for example handling of fear and pressure, keeping distance, orientation via hearing and touching or standing up to verbal or physical attacks in different surroundings. The training is a common action of SFB754, the Women's Executive Board and the GEOMAR Equal Opportunitiy Team. Complete details can be found here.

 

Strategies in Professional Environments: Understanding and Playing the Game. A Workshop for Female Postdoctoral Researchers. 

Duration and Date: 2nd & 3rd of December 2014 (9.00 - 17.30h & 8.30 - 16.30h) 
Oriented to: female scientists participating in via:mento_ocean and all interested female postdoctoral researchers from the SFB 754 and the Clusters of Excellence "The Future Ocean" and "Inflammation at Interfaces"
Place: Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel, Fraunhoferstr. 13, room Fraunhofer

Content:
Do you remember committee meetings, gatherings of your working group or discussion rounds that felt really surreal and you were not completely sure what was going on? Even with the best preparation you will not achieve your goals if you and the other people present are – consciously or unconsciously – following different rules.

The first aim of the workshop was to understand the organization you are working in and the games and rules which are holding it together by shedding light on four basic elements of organizations: power, strategy, game and environment. The second aim was to develop strategies to get into the game successfully by understanding your own way of playing the game in the past and developing and practicing alternative approaches for the future.

Participants of the workshop practiced to:

  • understand organizations and power networks in organizations
  • ​differentiate between fair play and unfair games
  • develop a system to deal with specific situations and to analyze the games played in organizations
  • analyze the situations they are involved in
  • explore their "play-biography" and discover personal strategic resources
  • think about a gender-bias of choosing a game and the styles to play it
  • develop and test their own coping strategies

​The workshop was based on theoretical inputs as well as practical self-assessment, group-work, case-analysis, work on personal situations and discussions in the plenum.

The workshop was led by Zita Küng (EQuality, Zürich)
More information can be found here

 

Workshop for Participants of the SFB 754 Summer School 2014

Duration and date: August 27th 2014, half-day workshop integrated in the summer school programme
Place: Lotseninsel Schleimünde

Content:
The past two decades have seen an increasing awareness for gender issues and the implementation of various measures to counter inequality. But has gender equality been achieved? Which role does gender play in our everyday lives and how is it connected to other forms of "difference"? The central aim of the workshop is to reflect on the relevance of gender and diversity in a scientific working environment. As a starting point, a basic understanding of gender will be imparted. Participants will think about the connection of gender and science in general and the importance of gender in their particular scientific communities. This includes the recognition and critical reflection of typical gender-related stereotypes and to relate them to other personal characteristics like age or ethnicity. Furthermore, the participants will get the opportunity to develop strategies for gender sensitive behaviour regarding the daily routines of their working groups.
For complete details and information please see here

The workshop was led by Monika Schoop (Köln).

 

"Gender-Competence as a Key-Qualification"

Duration and date:  Wed, Nov. 20th 2013: 9.00-17.00h & Thur, Nov. 21st 2013: 10:15-14.15h
Oriented to: all SFB 754 members from postdoctoral positions onwards
Place: GEOMAR, SEEBURG, seminar room, first floor

Details:
In the professional world and everyday life we are noticed either as woman or man, or as superiors, colleagues, scientists. Some of these classifications are based on Stereotypes which include specific attributions of behaviour or "typical" communication skills– quite often unconsciously. The training starts here to reflect the topics Gender, Stereotypes and ways of communication. The training opens the window for social appreciation of gender sensitive ways of communication in academic structures and offers strategies to new forms of collegial and professional interactions. (read more)
The workshop was led by Deborah Ruggieri (Berlin, www.deborah-ruggieri.de)

 

"via:mento_ocean Workshop "Career Planning" for Female Postdoctoral Scientists"

Duration and date:  Mo, Dec. 9th & Tue, Dec, 10th 2013 (both days 09:00-17:00h)
Oriented to: all female postdoctoral scientists active in the SFB 754, IMAP and via:mento_ocean
Place: CAU Kiel, Leibnizstr. 1, room 105 (first floor)

Details:
The main goals of the workshop are to reflect the participants' individual career strategies and to develop individualised visions and career aims that are referred back to existing skills, experiences and role expectations. Furthermore, classical as well as hidden career elements will be explored and solutions to handle both will be discussed. The workshop will give the opportunity to reflect on other than pure scientific aspects of academic careers and their importance. There will be room to discuss the consequences of being a postdoctoral researcher, to reflect on this role in the academic system and its consequences for individual competence development. Participants will recognize all the achievements and accomplishments they have managed until today, identify doable career pushes and get the chance to plan next career steps in order to reach their individual career aim without leaving out possible alternatives.
The workshop was led by Dr. Monika Clausen (Zürich, www.clausen-netzwerkpartner.ch)
The full wokshop outline can be found here.