MARUM Research Academy
navigare - Career Coaching
Promoting Gender Equity in International Research Careers
The coaching programme navigare is designed for women, trans, inter, and non-binary researchers considering a career in science.
Objectives
Intensive research and teaching, collaboration with international partners from different disciplines,
and a vivid, flexible, and intercultural working environment are important motivators for a rewarding career in science.
You may have experienced that working in a (foreign) academic system can hold challenges. Different (gender) role expectations, intercultural relations, understanding career perspectives, and structural differences in the higher education system are waiting to be explored. In the context of high mobility requirements an academic career can place additional demands on researchers with family responsibilities or special needs.
In this context, personal and academic networks and informal support are just as crucial as excellent scientific credentials.
The navigare programme aims to introduce strategies for actively developing your academic
career together with a group of peers from different faculties and research groups. You will have the opportunity to build a strong network for mutual exchange and support with your fellow
participants.
The main objective of navigare is to support you formulate your own career goals and to help you prepare and position yourself for a career in an international academic context. You will develop key career management skills and reflect on the academic system itself and the gender and diversity-specific demands it places on you as a researcher.
In an international and interdisciplinary group of participants, you will have the opportunity to learn with and from each other.
Key elements of the programme are
- Developing your own skills profile and shape your career more strategically
- Reflecting on (in)formal barriers you might face in the academic system
- Formulating your needs in terms of your work-life balance
- Developing your own networking strategies
- Exploring your understanding of leadership and developing leadership skills
- Learning how to establish constructive communication and conflict resolution
- Learning how to foster collaboration in international team constellations
Programme
For further information, contact [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript]
The programme starts with a half-day workshop to inform about the programme and to help you consider whether you would like to participate in navigare. Following this workshop, you have one week to decide before a binding registration needs to be completed.
Once registered, the one-year programme consists of 7 modules. Each of these ‘coaching days’, comprises lectures and interactive exercises providing the theoretical background on different aspects of personal and career development. During the second half of the coaching days, participants will work on concrete situations and challenges they are facing in their own work context using the method of intervision.
In a final workshop, the participants will reflect on what they have accomplished with the navigare coaching programme, their plans for the future and possibly arrange for further self-organized meetings with the group of participants to continue with intervision.
see also detailed programme
Target group
navigare addresses women, trans, inter, and non-binary researchers in the doctoral and postdoctoral stage who consider a career in science.
Eligibility
As a participant in the navigare programme we ask you to have
- An above-average commitment to devloping your career in science,
- Self-responsibility for achieving your objectives,
- A high motivation to learn within a group, and
- An interest in reflecting gender biases in science.
Furthermore, you need to be able to participate in at least 75% of the coaching days (=5 days). Participation in the information and final workshops are essential.
MARUM can provide funding for researchers who are employed at MARUM or whose contract is administered at MARUM.
Contact
Please direct any questions about navigare to [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript].