This mentoring scheme supports you in developing a doctoral thesis project in a moderated, peer-to-peer setting, preparing you for the public presentation at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FÖP). You will receive feedback from a coach and your peers on the research design of your project, your chosen theoretical framework and your intended methodology, thereby helping you to develop your research proposal.
Participants will work in small groups led by a postdoctoral researcher or advanced doctoral candidate from the Faculty of Social Sciences. Each group will meet twice during the summer semester of 2026, with several weeks between meetings.

Target group: The mentoring is open for candidates in the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences preparing for the public presentation

Venue: Conference Room of the Faculty of Social Sciences (Room C628A), Staircase III, 6th Floor, Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna (both sessions of groups 1 and 2); Meeting Room of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (Seminar Room 11), 1st Floor, Kolingasse 14–16, 1090 Vienna (both sessions of group 3).

Please note that participants need to submit a first draft of their research proposal approximately one week before the first meeting with the mentor via moodle.

Registration: via u:rise until 24 March 2026