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GUIDANCE & COUNSELING

Many different units within JMU offer counselling, coaching and mentoring services for researchers. This page provides an overview of all the services that are currently being offered. The Personal and Professional Development team is always happy to provide you with assistance or refer you to the right offices within JMU.

Contacting us

Feel free to contact us directly. We will be happy to provide you with guidance and personalised advice. We will discuss on the phone or in a personal initial meeting what issues you are currently facing and will evaluate possible measures and ways to set short-, medium- or long-term goals together with you. If we are not the right team to help you with your specific question, we will know who is the right person for you to contact and will put you in touch with them.

Defining your goals

This process reveals areas for further development on which you can work in consultation or coaching sessions or workshops. If necessary, we will work together to find the right place within JMU that can best help you with your needs. Mentoring may also be the right option for you. We are familiar with all the programmes that are being offered and, if necessary, will be happy to help you find the one that is right for you. All partners of the Research Academy attach great importance to not using pre-defined, one-size-fits-all approaches but will work with you to develop solutions that are tailored to your specific needs.

Counselling & Coaching Services

Carreer counseling and coaching | Personal and Professional Development

  • Career orientation and career planning (for positions in academia as well as in industry)
  • Leadership and supervision in research
  • Personal development
  • Time and self-management
  • And related topics

Target group: all researchers

start@JMU - coaching for newly appointed professors | Personal and Professional Development

  • Up to five personal coaching sessions
  • External coaches
  • Issues discussed will remain absolutely confidential
  • Funded by Personal and Professional Development
  • Topics chosen by the coachee - you decide what you want the process to look like
  • Flexible in terms of time and place

Target group: newly appointed professors

Information and advice about research fundig | RAC

  • Assistance with the development of research projects
  • Communication with funding bodies
  • Review of drafts of proposals including detailed feedback, preparation of draft texts on cross-cutting issues
  • Advice on the implementation of recommendations made by reviewers
  • Coordination with the competent offices (e.g. gender equality, finance)
  • Review of drafts of proposals including detailed feedback
  • Assistance in relation to evaluation procedures or strategy discussions

Target group: all researchers

Konfliktmanagement

Conflict couselling | Conflict Management Services

As an independent contact point for staff members, including those in leadership roles, the Conflict Management Service informs and advises JMU employees on how to deal with conflicts. In addition, it provides support on issues relating to the prevention of conflicts as well as support with psychological stress.

Target group: all researchers

Information and advice provided by the University's Women's Representative

  • Family-friendly work arrangements
  • Gender equality in research
  • Help for victims of sexual harassment
  • Gender consulting

Target group: all female researchers

[Translate to Englisch:] Büro der Universitätsfrauenbeauftragten

SCIENTIA Coaching | Office of the University’s Women’s Representative

SCIENTIA Coaching is a personalised programme that strengthens the leadership skills of female researchers and prepares them for their first appointment to a professorship. This process-oriented form of counselling encourages coachees to reflect on all issues relating to their professional identity.

Target group: female postdoctoral researchers, female private lecturers, female junior professors and female (junior) group leaders

Information and advice on issues relating to good practice in research

  • Ombudspersons are available to provide advice and help with problems.
  • Code of good practice in research and procedures for the investigation of misconduct in research

Target group: all researchers

[Translate to Englisch:] Pressestelle

Interview Coaching | Press and Public Relations Office

As a researcher, you may receive requests for interviews from the media. The Press and Public Relations Office can help you to be confident and professional in such situations. Feel free to contact the team there. They will be happy to speak to you.

Target group: all researchers, especially professors

Start-up assistance | SFT

  • Support with applications for funding under suitable programmes (e.g. EXIST, Flügge)
  • Coaching and workshops on all start-up-related topics
  • Support with the development of business models and market strategies
  • Information about the IP policy of JMU and the exploitation of IP (in cooperation with the JMU Inventors’ Consultants)
  • Help linking up with strategically important partners via our regional and transregional networks to help your business grow

Target group: doctoral researchers and postdocs

Addiction Prevention Services

  • Information and advice about dealing with addiction (alcohol, psychotropic drugs, illegal drugs) and related problems (eating disorders, excessive internet use, compulsive gambling)
  • Interacting with people experiencing addiction
  • Help finding other providers of counselling services and getting access to therapeutic treatment
  • Active support for return-to-work employees

Target group: all researchers

Return-to-work process following long-term sickness absence

  • Employees returning from a long-term sickness absence get the opportunity to discuss issues relating to their return to work.
  • The aim is to find solutions together to facilitate their return and prevent another period of long-term sickness absence.

Target group: all employees

What do I need?
Who can help?

You are not sure which programme is suitable for you or who is available at JMU to help you? Do not hesitate to contact the team at Personal and Professional Development. They may not always be able to help you with your specific issue, but they have a strong network of contacts within JMU and usually find the right person to contact with your question very quickly

Contact the Personal and Professional Development!

Mentoring opportunities for JMU researchers

Mentoring | programme offered jointly by Personal and Professional Development the Alumni Office

  • Personal development
  • Career orientation and career planning
  • Internationalisation and networking

Target group: early-career researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs)

MENTORING life sciences

  • The programme supports young female scientists on their way towards the upper echelons of academia.
  • Doctoral researchers learn to appreciate their strengths and mitigate the weaknesses women typically struggle with in science.
  • Personal mentors help with guidance in phases of uncertainty or doubt.

Target group: female doctoral researchers

SCIENTIA Mentoring

  • Open to female researchers from all Faculties at JMU
  • Fosters the development of qualified female early-career researchers
  • Promotion of opportunities for women
  • Enhances quality and competitiveness

Target group: female doctoral researchers and postdocs

MENTORING med

  • MENTORING med PEER
  • MENTORING med ONE to ONE
  • The duration per round is 2 years.

Target group: holders of a doctorate in medicine, postdocs from other disciplines who are working in medicine as well as Habilitation candidates in the medical sciences