Studying for a doctorate and habilitation (senior post-doctoral qualifications) at the Faculty of Psychology
Are you interested in a doctorate or senior post-doctoral qualification in Psychology? The School of Science awards the academic degrees, on the basis of completing a doctorate, of Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor rerum naturalium) or a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) for the Technische Universität Dresden.
The German postdoctoral qualification known as habilitation proves the particular qualification for research and for independent academic teaching in a special field. The habilitation awards the venia legendi (teaching permission) and allows to have the addition "habil." to the doctor's degree.
The faculty has also established criteria for achievements that are to be regarded as equivalent to a habilitation.
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Information and points of contact in the Faculty of Psychology
Applications, regulations and information can be found on the page"Important documents", as well as on the websites of the
School of Science.
Applications and documents are submitted via the Faculty of Psychology.
Please note: All procedures for applying for admission to doctoral studies / acceptance as a doctoral student in the School of Science are handled via the online system Promovendus! Further information can be found on the doctoral website of the School of Science/PhD.
At the same time, you also need to apply for matriculation using the Selma online portal.
Doctoral students who wish to be enrolled in the doctoral program for longer than 8 semesters will have to make an extension request from the 9th semester onwards
(form)
The application needs to be approved by the supervisor and submitted to the Psychology Doctoral Examinations Office.
In addition to the doctoral degree regulations, doctoral students of the Faculty of Psychology should take note of the procedural guidelines for doctorates at the Faculty of Psychology and in addition to the doctoral regulations the information on dissertations. (Both documents are only available in German, please contact the Promotionsamt directly if you have any questions)
Please note that for publication-based dissertations, publications in so-called predatory journals may lead to rejection of the dissertation. Before submitting manuscripts to journals, please inform yourself about their status, e.g. on the pages
DFG(https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/funding-opportunities/programmes/infrastructure/lis/open-access/what-is-open-access/predatory-journals)
or the Predation Index
(https://www.ipsa.org/publications/predatory-publishing#:~:text=Journals%20with%20a%20score%20higher,the%20publishing%20and%20review%20processes).
Since June 1, 2021, the procedural guidelines for the implementation of the statutes of the GWP in doctorates at the Faculty of Psychology have been in force. Please note these before submitting the admission and opening applications.
Special attention is drawn to the following addition to the doctoral regulations
- Two supervisors are required for the doctoral project for acceptance as a doctoral student.
- Doctoral candidates are required to provide evidence of participation in a course in good scientific practice lasting at least one day before the procedure is opened.
- The dissertation must be assessed by an external reviewer. Please use this form to check the criteria for external reviewers.
Processing of doctoral and habilitation matters at the Faculty of Psychology - Doctoral Examinations Office Psychology: Kathrin Binye
Representative of the Faculty of Psychology in the Doctoral Committee of the School of Mathematics and Science: Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherbaum