WG Prevention of power abuse

One-Pager Released

New One-Pager on the Power Abuse Survey for DR Representatives

As presented during the General Assembly at the end of October, the Working Group “Contract Situations & Prevention of Power Abuse” is currently evaluating the results of this year’s Power Abuse Survey.

We were very pleased with the strong engagement of DR Representatives, your thoughtful feedback, and your clear interest in the outcomes. This motivates us to finalize the full report, which we will share with you as soon as it is ready.

In the meantime, to keep you updated, we are sharing a short one-pager with key information and preliminary insights from the survey.

You are warmly invited to:

  • Read through the one-pager
  • Share it with your DR colleagues
  • Use it as you see fit within your institute (e.g., in meetings, newsletters, or informal discussions)

We are very much looking forward to your feedback, comments, and thoughts on this work.
You can reach us anytime at: ppa.leibnizphd@outlook.com— The team of the Working Group
“Contract Situations & Prevention of Power Abuse”

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Current Challenges in Academia – The PhD student perspective

We want to discuss our current situation regarding the power structures and working conditions in academia with you to improve our situation as PhDs!

We would like to invite you to our “Current Challenges in Academia – The PhD student perspective” workshop on the 25th – 26th of November initiated by the working group prevention of power abuse and contract situations. The workshop will be held at Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (Am Bergbaumuseum 28, 44791 Bochum)

On the 25th at 10:00 we would like to initiate the workshop with a panel discussion regarding the current power structure within academia, followed by a contact situation workshop with a focus on time tracking and a second workshop regarding the situation of stipends finishing at 18:00. Followed by a dinner (self-pay).

On the 26th we will hold a workshop focusing on power abuse in academia (starting at 10:00) and work on a position paper stating our ideas to improve the situation for doctoral researchers. The official program will end at 14:30 and an additional visit of the “Bergbau-Museum” is possible afterwards.

Register here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXi4v6CvznrzXnBc7FWRO1oOwS9gbIGbnq2BSK3DmOH9YKk/viewform?usp=sf_linkT

The registration will be open until 13.11.2023, but the earlier you register the better we can organize everything.

Further information and a timetable will be sent closer to the event. For any questions, please contact:

ppa.leibnizphd@outlook.com