SGW: Doctoral students

The doctoral center hosts a two-day colloquium once a year. It serves as a forum for academic exchange and provides an opportunity to network with other doctoral students. You will receive details regarding the location, time, and schedule via email in advance.

Date of the PhD Colloquium

• November 5–6, 2026, in Stendal

If you are pursuing a cumulative doctoral degree, § 2 (3) of the doctoral regulations requires that you have published at least three outstanding scholarly papers, with your scholarly contribution being the most significant in at least two of them (typically as the first author). The scholarly works must have been published in peer-reviewed, internationally recognized journals or accepted for publication. Detailed information can be found in the implementing regulations “Internationally Recognized Journals – Journal Rankings.”

Please also note additional documents regarding the cumulative doctorate (Kum.P.) here.

Please also consult your advisor, who will assist you with the publications.

The Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Library supports all university members in the publication of academic works. Further information can be found here: Library: Our Services for Your Publication

During your doctoral studies, you should present your dissertation project to a professional audience. For more information, please refer to the implementation guidelines titled “Seminars and Events Accompanying the Doctoral Program.” Please also discuss this with your advisor.

Download: Resolutions on Quality Assurance

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 German Research Foundation’s (DFG) “Guidelines for Ensuring Good Scientific Practice.”

We recommend that all doctoral students complete a course on GWP during their doctoral studies, ideally during their first year of the program. The Universities of Applied Sciences (HAW) in Saxony-Anhalt have developed their own course program on good scientific practice for their doctoral students. This program offers two ways to demonstrate compliance with good scientific practice:

• Participation in an in-person one-day event (venue rotates among all universities of applied sciences in Saxony-Anhalt)
• Participation in online modules, where 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.

Is your dissertation nearing completion, and would you like to begin your doctoral program soon? Please contact Katja Czech. She will send you the “Application to Begin the Doctoral Program.”

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

• Dissertation
• Current resume
• Current declaration of originality + table of references
• Dissertation, anonymized for plagiarism check
• Research data
• Proof of attendance for:
  • Participation in colloquia of the doctoral center
  • Seminars and courses accompanying the doctoral program

Please also refer to the doctoral regulations and the implementing provisions of the PZ SGW (see Documents).
In addition, you must submit three printed copies of your dissertation.

If anything has changed during the course of your doctoral studies, such as the title of your thesis or your advisor, please also submit the change notification (see Downloads Documents). Your application will be discussed by the Doctoral Committee. Following the review process, the Doctoral Committee will decide on the acceptance of your dissertation.

The SGW doctoral center has a Representation of Doctoral Candidates. In addition, the interests of doctoral students at the HSA in the Department of Economics are represented by the following individuals:

Department 2

Carolin Rautenberg
Vanessa Fehlig

More information is available here.