Doing a doctorate at the IfB
This page gives you an overview of how to do a doctorate at the IfB. Please note: A doctorate at the IfB is not a mandatory requirement for membership of the Graduate School (and vice versa).
Typical doctoral programme:
In order to be accepted as a doctoral candidate at the IfB, you must submit the following documents to the Chair of the Institute of Educational Research:
- An application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate in which you confirm that you have taken note of the doctoral regulations of the IfB
- A certified copy of your Abitur certificate
- A certified copy of your Master's degree or a comparable degree (e.g. Diplom, Magister)
- If applicable, a certified copy of your Bachelor's degree
- An exposé of your doctoral project
- An original signed confirmation from your supervisor about the supervision of your doctoral project
- A declaration of discontinued, incomplete or otherwise ongoing doctoral procedures
(For details, please refer to §7, para. 3 of the doctoral regulations)
Please note that you must submit the documents listed above even if you already have a copy of your Abitur certificate elsewhere at BUW (e.g. in the Human Resources Department if you are employed at BUW).
In order to be able to start the doctoral procedure, you must not only be accepted as a doctoral candidate at the IfB, but also be enrolled as a doctoral student at BUW. It is not the IfB that is responsible here, but the university's Registrar's Office.
Once you have submitted your dissertation, apply for the doctoral procedure to be initiated. Please observe the doctoral degree regulations and in particular §10, para. 2 with regard to the documents to be attached. If you are doing a publication-based doctorate, please pay particular attention to the implementation provision in Annex 3 of the doctoral degree regulations:
- This provision regulates the type of writings you can submit as the basis of your publication-based dissertation. Please note that contributions in edited works and yearbooks, even if they have undergone a review process, are not contributions to peer-reviewed journals.
- This provision also stipulates that, with regard to each of the writings that are part of your publication-based discussion, you must provide evidence by signature of which co-authors, if any, have made which contribution. The Doctoral Committee recommends that you draw up a corresponding document directly upon submission, but at the latest upon acceptance of an article that is planned as part of your publication-based dissertation.
If you are doing a publication-based doctorate, you can include the underlying articles as an appendix to the main text of your dissertation. Please note that you must either own the exploitation rights yourself (e.g. if the essay has been published under a corresponding open access (CC) licence), or you must have explicit written permission from the rights holder (usually the publisher). Such permission can refer to the published and typeset article, but also to the postprint (i.e. the manuscript that has been accepted for printing but has not yet been edited and typeset). Here(https://github.com/tuub/theses-publisher-policies/blob/master/policies.md) you will find a summary of the practices of the major scientific publishers and learned societies in this regard.
If you do not own the rights of use yourself and the rights holder has not agreed to publication as an appendix to your dissertation via the Wuppertal University Library, you should include a web link for articles that are accessible online, otherwise the full bibliography.
