Academic career paths

In collaboration with other departments within the university, staff development initiatives for the various academic target groups are continuously being refined. Academic staff development is structurally housed within the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Early-Career Support. The existing Academic Staff Development Strategy of the Karlsruhe University of Education was drawn up in cooperation with all relevant departments and stakeholder groups and adopted by the Senate in December 2018.

Five good reasons why you’ll enjoy our university as a place of research:

• Research profile in educational sciences: We offer you a specialist environment suited to topics such as teacher training, curriculum development, digitalisation, education for democracy, health, sustainability and educational research. Your research findings can be incorporated relatively directly into educational practice.
• Interdisciplinary work: Educational questions can rarely be answered from just one disciplinary perspective. Working at our university facilitates collaboration between educational sciences, the natural and social sciences, subject-specific didactics, psychology, social sciences and other disciplines such as economics or politics
• Manageable structures and personal collaboration: Compared to large universities, our smaller university fosters direct interaction with professors, project teams and colleagues. This can be particularly helpful at the start of your academic career.
• Social relevance: Research into education, schools and teacher training is of great public importance. If you wish to pursue academic work whilst also contributing to concrete improvements in the education system, you will find the ideal environment here.
• Karlsruhe as a centre of scholarship: The city offers a vibrant network of universities, research institutions and educational partners. This can lead to additional contacts, collaborations and interdisciplinary projects.