#22 Newsletter Graduate Center

☞ Save the date: Welcome Event for new doctoral students

To provide initial information and orientation, the Graduate Center warmly invites all doctoral students new to the mdw (and the ones, who couldn't make it last year) to our Welcome Event on Thursday, 9 October 2025 in the afternoon. As part of the onboarding process, there will be a dedicated Onboarding Workshop for PhD students from 11am - 1pm on the same day. The detailed programme will be anounced soon. We are very much looking forward to this event and to meeting all new doctoral candidates! Please save the date and register via graduiertenzentrum@mdw.ac.at

☞ Reminder: Informal network events for PhD candidates at mdw

Starting in the winter semester 2025, the Graduate Center will organize informal networking events once a semester for mdw's PhD candidates. We would love to organize this event not just for, but with you. Therefore, we are looking for two motivated PhD candidates to join us in conceptualizing and organizing this new format - so that it truely reflects your interests and needs. If you would like to get involved, please send an e-mail to graduiertenzentrum@mdw.ac.at until 31 August 2025. Participation can be credited within the new PhD curriculum as "Co-organization of an academic event" with ECTS points in the elective area of study ("außercurriculare wissenschaftliche Leistungen") but the role is unpaid.
 

☞ Young Researchers Network ACDH

The “Young Researchers Network” was founded  by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) in 2024 and includes young researchers from the ACDH as well as guest researchers up to doctoral level. If your research topic aligns with the ACDH's research fields (see below), we cordially invite you to apply to join the network as a visiting researcher! Being a visiting researcher includes i.a.: interdisciplinary networking opportunities with colleagues from the four ACDH departments (Digital Humanities and Research Infrastructure, Linguistics, Literary Studies and Musicology), direct access to training courses, the chance to take part in informal exchange programmes and the opportunity to help organise research days. These are the main areas of musicological research at the ACDH: Audio-visual sources and film music, Biographical research, History of musicology, Habsburg music history, Monastery music history, Libretto research, Medieval manuscripts, Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), Music aesthetics, Music iconography, Music Criticism, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Watermark recognition; persons: Guido Adler, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Johann Joseph Fux, Eduard Hanslick, Gustav Mahler, Franz Schubert.
If you are interested, please send an informal e-mail to: alexander.wilfing@oeaw.ac.at
 

The LGB career center offers a Leadership Programme which supports you as a a Research Group Leader or Senior Researcher with leadership experience to reflect on and further develop your own (leadership) role. The target group is group leaders and Post-Docs who are currently leading a team and have done so for at least 6 months. 12 participants will be selected according to an application process. You can find more information here. Deadline: 08 September 2025, Information session: 28 August 2025.
 

☞ Marietta Blau-Grant

The Marietta Blau Grant offers financial support for six- to twelve-month study periods abroad for doctoral or PhD students of Austrian universities. It serves to optimise their dissertations. Junior researchers are the main target group. Find further information here. Deadline: 01 September 2025.

☞ mdw Doctoral scholarship

The mdw Doctoral scholarship facilitates the production of outstanding dissertations at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Its aim is to support early-stage researchers’ doctoral studies and lend visibility to their achievements in the context of the mdw’s PhD and artistic research programmes. Applications should be sent to stipendium@mdw.ac.at until 15 October 2025.
 

☞ Mannagetta Fellowships

These OeAW fellowships are intended for the completion of a doctoral thesis in the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences at a university in Austria. Fellowships are awarded for a period of eight to twelve months and must be started within three months of notification of the grant. If the dissertation is submitted for review before the end of the funding period, the remaining time of the funding period can be used for the preparation of publications. Find further information here. Deadline: 06 October 2025. If you are interested, please contact the mdw's research support office, which acts as the central point of contact for third-party funding applications

We hope that these offers are interesting for you and that you will take advantage of the possibilities. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.