The IPSH serves the support of international academic exchange and scholarly or scientific cooperation. The membership comes with no financial obligations. Postgraduate members are entitled to find doctor fathers within an international range at this school, to find an institution for passing in their thesis, to obtain support for their international research work and for the translation and publication of their works internationally.

Mission

UVU itself is not offering a Ph.D. program and currently also not planning on doing so in the future. The International Postgraduate School of Humanities is a network of postgraduates and Ph.D. advisers and/or their institutions, connecting UVU faculty with faculty of other universities in the network and is open to UVU graduates and other graduates of other universities of the network, who fulfill the requirements to enroll in a Ph.D. program offered by any of the universities of the network. The School is not an institutional part of UVU, although its headquarter and mailing address is currently located at UVU, because the current presidency is held by a UVU faculty member.  Its headquarter and mailing address will move to a different university of the network when the presidency will be passed on.  The network was established in 2008.  Its purpose is to offer assistance during the writing process of the dissertation in addition to the support provided by existing structures (Ph.D. programmes, colloquia, etc.).  The School is still in an early stage of development.

Ph.D. candidates can apply to the School for grants covering the cost of books, travel, and printing.  The School also organizes meetings to encourage an interdisciplinary academic exchange, thus allowing candidates to broaden their horizons.

Students who have already gained a Master or Diploma qualification can find advisers and faculties here to conduct their Ph.D. studies.  Advisers can use the network to translate and/or publish papers in other countries.

The main idea of the School is to provide a structure for the often unstructured and, as a consequence, long-lasting Ph.D. study programmes in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences, with a view to shortening the duration of the programme, and improving completion rates.

Brief overview of the School’s main areas of work

Structured Ph.D. study programme

• Support in defining a research topic

• Support in finding a adviser/reviewer/examiner

• Documentation and evaluation of applicable provisions in the relevant Ph.D study guides

• General assistance: how do I write an exposé ?  Communicating with other Ph.D candidates before submitting

• Continuous participation in teaching events of the respective faculties

• Introduction to support structures (methodology, carrying out research in libraries)

• Promoting interdisciplinary approaches

• Time schedules with milestones

• Discussion of provisional results

• Drafting of progress reports

• Promoting the integration of research results into the scientific discourse

• Assistance in publishing completed research

• Assistance in publishing Abstracts on Open Access Platforms

• Organisation of symposiums by Ph.Dcandidates themselves

• Opportunities to gain further interdisciplinary qualifications depending on requirements

• Options for choosing a second reviewer/examiner late in the day

• Travel grants

• Information about further assistance

• Virtual network (under construction)

• Organisational dedication on the part of participants is welcomed

Time schedule

a) Continuous participation in colloquiums
b) Topic and Abstract (also for the website)
c) Approach/Methodology
d) Exposé

e) Search for a adviser/reviewer/examiner
f) Search for literature
g) (Field) Research (if applicable)
h) Writing
i) Submitting
j) Defence (Viva)
1st Semester     Intermediate report
2nd Semester    Intermediate report    Organisation of symposium
3rd Semester     Intermediate report
4th Semester    Intermediate report    Interdisciplinary symposium with candidates’ Ph.D topics
5th Semester    Submission

Contact: president [a t) postgraduateschool.eu

Members

Individuals/Institutions

• Prof. Dr. Martin Woesler, University of Applied Languages, (Munich, Germany), President

• Prof. Dr. Klaus Bernsmann, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany)

• <>Prof. Dr. Roger Friedlein, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany)

• Prof. Dr. Kong, Deming 孔德明, Nanjing University (PR China)

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Messman, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)

• Prof. Dr. Luigi Moccia, Università Roma Tre (Italy)

• Prof. Dr. Sun, Yuchun 孙遇春, Tongji-University Shanghai (PR China)

• Prof. Dr. Yin, Zhihong 印芝虹, Nanjing University (PR China)

Ph.D. candidates/postgraduates

• Han, Zheng 韓錚, Capital Normal University, Peking, PR China, ",,Face“  und ,,Facework“ in der chinesischen und deutschen Kultur. Eine interkulturelle Kommunikationsstudie"

• Riesel, Ina (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany): "Der portugiesische Aufklärer Luís António Verney und sein ,,Verdadeiro Método de estudar`` aus epistolographischer Sicht", Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

• Shi, Xiaoyan, M.A. 史笑艳 (Peking, PR China)

• Shen, Yu, M.A. (Peking, PR China): "Humanismus als Erfolgsgeheimnis für den kanonisierten chinesischen Roman 'Traum der Roten Kammer' und seine weltweiten Übersetzungen" (2005 Stipendium vom Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen)

  Siedenberg, Markus , M.A. (Germany): Fundamental Theory

   

• Song, Yi 宋意碩士: "Interkulturelle Bildungsarbeit in der deutsch-chinesischen Hochschul-Zusammenarbeit" (2005 Kooptions-Stipendium vom Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen), Bochum, Germany

• Wang, Wenzhuo 王文卓, Tongji University, PR China

• Xu, Jixiang 徐吉祥, Tongji University, PR China,Critical Analyzation of High Tech Parks on a national level

• Yang, Minghui 楊明慧, Ruhr University Bochum

• You, Jia 尤佳, Tongji University, PR China

• Zhang, Chuyun 張楚筠, Tongji University, PR China, Human Ressource Recruitement and Management in the Chinese civil service, graduated in March 2011

• Zhu, Mingfang 朱明芳, Tongji University, PR China, graduated in 2009

Application forms

Application for membership as an individual/institution

Application for membership as a candidate