Election of the Doctoral Students Association: March 9 and 10, 2026

Every registered doctoral student at HAWK has one vote. The election will be conducted online, and all eligible voters will receive an email in advance.

Are you doing your doctorate at HAWK but your are not yet registered at the HAWK Graduate School?
Please send us a short email – if you contact us by February 24, 2026, you will be added to the electoral register.

 

The candidates

Konstantin Goertz

  • Position: research assistant in the NeGeV research project, Faculty of Design (Hildesheim) and Faculty of Engineering (Göttingen)
  • Current doctoral phase: Doctoral position within the research project (duration: 01.09.2023 to 30.04.2026), followed by an individual doctorate
  • Ideas and wishes for doctoral students: Strengthen interdisciplinary interfaces and improve networking between faculties. Unfortunately, the HAWK Graduate School is not perceived in the same way by all faculties.  

Sylvie Fleur Göttsche 

  • Position: Midwife, nursing educator, and research assistant in Midwifery at the Health Campus Göttingen
  • Current doctoral phase: Project "Zukunft-FH Prof" (duration: 01.04.2024 to 31.03.2027)
  • Ideas and wishes for doctoral student: Exchange via a dedicated platform where advanced trainings, workshops, and courses for doctoral students as well as interesting links can be shared

Andrea Kurz

  • Position: Physiotherapist (M.Sc.) and research assistant in the Department "Organisationsentwicklung" in Hildesheim within the program "Gemeinsam HAWK gestalten"
  • Current doctoral phase: Doctorate within the research project "POET-Pain" at Faculty Social Work and Health in Hildesheim (duration: August 2021 to June 2025), followed by an individual doctorate
  • Ideas and wishes for doctoral students: Record, communicate, and represent the needs and wishes of doctoral students; foster cross-faculty networking; create structures for financial support of doctorates beyond the end of project funding