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Monday, 26. February 2024

Taking risks with research

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How do you investigate serious administrative failures when authorities set up barriers and refuse to provide information?
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Wednesday, 24. January 2024

Research beyond the Arctic Circle

© Eva Riehle

Studying the impacts of climate change where they are most apparent due to melting ice on sea and land. What seems like a charming plan from the armchair of your home office, actually demands a lot of organization ahead of time and energy to implement.
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Tuesday, 23. January 2024

A good first impression and a broad perspective

A collaborative research environment is key for establishing a new research group: insights from bioinformatician Andreas Gruber, funded within the framework of the Joint Federal Government-Länder Tenure-Track Programme.
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Thursday, 18. January 2024

Too new for the scientific community

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What do you do when no one believes your scientific discovery? Physicist Alfred Leitenstorfer describes how a new approach met with great scepticism among the scientific community – and what he did to ultimately convince it.
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Tuesday, 17. October 2023

Arriving in Konstanz – interview with chemist Lena Barra

What's it like to be an early career researcher at the University of Konstanz?
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Tuesday, 11. July 2023

Ethical considerations in conflict and development research

"An essential ethical requirement for any survey is, for example, that participation is voluntary, uncoerced and can be terminated at any time."
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Wednesday, 08. March 2023

Doctoral thesis adventure

Since the beginning of March 2023, doctoral students from various disciplines at the University of Konstanz have been providing weekly insights into their life with their doctoral thesis. This takes place as part of "PhDiary" on the specially created Instagram channel @phdiary_unikonstanz.
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Monday, 15. August 2022

Coincidences and what you make of them

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Professor Rudolf Schlögl, now retired, researched and taught for two and a half decades as a professor of modern history at the University of Konstanz. He secured the first Cluster of Excellence in the humanities in Germany, which soon turned out to be game-changing for the University of Konstanz.
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