Do you have questions about your doctorate or the career to follow? The GSHS office offers individual and confidential advice on all general matters that concern you, e.g:
- Helping you decide (starting a doctorate, dropping out, career decisions…)
- The GSHS services
- Doctoral project funding
- Preparing for scholarship and job applications
- Skills acquisition
- Career orientation
- Project and time management
- Challenges and difficulties of the doctorate
- The doctoral candidate-supervisor relationship (including conflict management)
- Advice, funding, qualifications and more at JGU
- Your ideas for the further development of GSHS services
Our advice is aimed at the following groups:
- Prospective doctoral candidates (advanced students and graduates of all higher education institutions who are interested in pursuing a doctorate in the humanities or social sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University)
- GSHS members (Become a member)
- Postdocs
- Supervisors
In preparation for your advisory session, we recommend taking a look at our overview pages with Information on doctoral studies where you will find answers to frequently asked questions and links to further resources.
Arrange an appointment with us
An advisory session can take place via video conference, in person or by telephone. To make an appointment, please send a short e-mail to gshs@uni-mainz.de stating your request and the desired format (video conference, telephone, in person). You will then receive an appointment from our office.
