Doctoral Program

The PhD Program at ZeMKI will conduct Exposé Workshops for First Year PhD Candidates this November. The goal is to discuss drafts and skeletons of PhD Exposés in the peer group under the guidance of a Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler.  All first year PhD candidates will present their exposés in one of the three workshops (…)

From September 28 to October 2, 2025, a group of ZeMKI PhD students participated in a writing retreat on the island of Spiekeroog, located in the Wadden Sea National Park. The retreat offered participants the opportunity to dedicate several days to intensive writing and focused work on their dissertation projects, away from the distractions of (…)

The Writing Retreat 2024 to this year is scheduled from September 16 to September 20. This Writing Week is designed to support the academic progress of doctoral candidates by providing an environment perfectly suited for focused writing and research. Situated in the picturesque north of Germany, this retreat offers participants a chance to advance their (…)

We are pleased to invite you to our workshop “Academic Project Management.” Effective time management and self-organization is a prerequisite for graduates. But how do you manage to structure your everyday life and keep your planning and goals under control, maintain an overview and avoid chaotic time pressure situations? This workshop explores these questions and (…)

We are pleased to invite you to our workshop “Successfully Connecting Theory and Methods in the Thesis.” Learn from Prof. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Christian Schwarzenegger and Prof. Stephanie Geise how to effectively integrate theoretical and methodological approaches in your thesis. The workshop is about reflecting on how theoretical work and empirical research can be related (…)

We are excited to invite you to a method-focused seminar on the integration of qualitative interviews and digital behavioral data, hosted by Lisa Merten from the Leibniz Institute for Media Research. The seminar will consist of various sessions aimed at exploring the utilization of digital trace data in conjunction with qualitative interviews. We will delve (…)

Summer schools are an important avenue to methodological competence, particularly in specialized and fast-moving fields of research. However, summer school applications often need to be prepared quite far in advance, making careful planning especially important. In this very practical workshop we discuss how to successfully select, apply to and receive funding for summer schools based (…)

Minds, Media, Machines Integrated Graduate School (MMMIGS) and ZeMKI are hosting a workshop about data visualization for doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers. The workshop takes place on March 15, from 9:00-17:00 at the University of Bremen and will be held in English. The workshop will cover on the one hand general aspects of visualization with (…)