Architecture and design research: Doctoral students

Colloquiums are held regularly at the doctoral center. They provide an opportunity for professional exchange and networking with other doctoral students. During your doctoral studies, you should present your work once a year at a colloquium.

Doctoral colloquia 

• 04.11.26

Doctoral students at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences—like all staff and students—are required to adhere to good scientific practice (GWP).
To this end, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences adopted the “Statutes on the Principles for Ensuring Good Scientific Practice and on the Handling of Allegations of Scientific Misconduct at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences” in 2023. These statutes are based on the “Guidelines for Ensuring Good Scientific Practice” code of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

According to the doctoral regulations of the Doctoral Center Architecture and Design Research, doctoral students must complete a course on GWP during their doctoral studies, ideally during their first year of the program. They are free to choose where to take GWP courses. Find the format that best suits you.

Many universities of applied sciences (HAW), universities, and non-university research institutions offer courses and continuing education programs on this topic.

The universities of applied sciences (HAW) in Saxony-Anhalt offer the following GWP course program for their doctoral students:

• Participation in a one-day in-person event (venue rotates among all universities of applied sciences in Saxony-Anhalt)
• Participation in online modules, in which the mandatory basic module can be combined with at least two elective focus modules

You can find all information about the course program here.

The dates for our GWP training sessions can be found here.

Research data is data generated as part of a research process. This includes, for example, measurement results, questionnaires and survey results, interview recordings and transcripts, protocols, software, etc. The management of this data (research data management) encompasses all processes such as creation, processing, analysis, archiving and deletion, publication, and reuse.

More information is available here.

Your dissertation is in the final stages and you would like to start your doctoral studies soon? Get in touch with Katja Czech. She will send you the "Antrag auf Eröffnung des Promotionsverfahrens".

You must then submit this application to Katja Czech together with the following documents:

• Dissertation
• Current curriculum vitae
• Current declaration of independence + table of supporting documents
• Dissertation, anonymized for plagiarism control
• Research data
• Proof of attendance for:
  • Colloquiums of the doctoral center
  • conferences
  • Continuing education
  • GWP training

Please also note the doctoral regulations and the information on quality assurance at the doctoral center (see documents).
You must also submit three printed copies of your dissertation.

If something has changed during the course of your doctorate, e.g. the title of your thesis or the supervisor, please also submit the notification of change (see Documents). Your application will be discussed by the doctoral committee. Following the review process, the doctoral committee will decide whether to accept your dissertation.

There is a Representation of Doctoral Candidates in each doctoral center and each Department. In the Doctoral Center Architecture and Design Research, this is elected from among the doctoral students in Departments 3 and 4. It represents the interests of doctoral students in the departments and committees of the university. It is also available for questions and suggestions and continues to organize exchange and networking meetings.

Department 3

Lía Duarte Rodriguez

Department 4

Danny Ott
Akansha Aggarwal

Click here for the website of the Representation of Doctoral Candidates.