The University of Bayreuth and Deakin University have signed an agreement enabling joint PhDs at the two institutions in Germany and Australia.
PhD candidates at Bayreuth and Deakin now have the opportunity for an international, joint PhD in Bayreuth and at Melbourne’s Deakin University. This means that a candidate will be jointly enrolled, supervised by one supervisor in either country and will finally graduate with two PhD testamurs. During the candidature each joint candidate will spend at least 12 months at the other institutions and thus have the opportunity to gain international experience an exposure in two different linguistic, cultural and research environments.
Prof. Dr. Leible, president of the University of Bayreuth with Dr Arnim Heinemann (Director, International Office) with the signed joint-PhD agreement
Deakin University is a longstanding partner of the University of Bayreuth and has campuses in Melbourne and the western part of Victoria. Focus of the collaborations have so far been in the areas of sport science, health economics and law with participation in Bayreuth’s international summerschool, joint workshops and visits. The joint PhD program will add to this partnership and hopefully allow many PhD candidates to take advantages of this international program, as well as strengthen and further the relationship between the two Universities.
The first joint PhD candidate will arrive in Bayreuth October, before heading to Melbourne in twelve months. His research is concerned with non-pharmaceutical interventions for dementia and he will be supervised by Prof. Dr. mult Eckard Nagel and Prof. Cathy Mihalopoulos, Chair and Head, Deakin Health Economics.