Conflicts

Disclaimer:

Most of the information on this site mirrors information on the FAU page for conflict resolution for doctoral researchers. Nevertheless, you can have a look down-below:

Conflicts with the supervisor

Graduate Centre

The Graduate Centre is there to support doctoral candidates and will help you directly and informally. Furthermore, they offer you contact data for mediators at the respective faculty. These mediators are usually emeritus professor that are not involved in the daily business of the faculty anymore, but are willing to support the concerns of young researchers.

Commission for Research Conflict Management

If you are in a conflict with colleagues or your advisor and attempts to solve the problem personally failed, you can contact the Commission for Research Conflict Management (Kommission zur Konfliktlösung an wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsplätzen). You should choose one of the members of the commission and contact this person. Then, he or she will consult and support you confidentially. This contact person will try to mediate the conflict with all persons involved. The contact persons are listed, and a German-language regulation of the mediation procedure is linked above.

Sexual Harassment

In case of sexual harassment, the Office for Gender and Diversity supports and consults. Additionally, there is the Senior Officer for Gender (Gleichstellungsbeauftragte), however, this officer focuses on non-scientific employees.
Thus, researchers should contact the Office for Gender and Diversity first.

Anti-Discrimination

In cases of discrimination concerning ethnic origin, gender, view of life, disability, age or sexual identity, you contact the Office for Gender and Diversity for support.

General conflicts

For general conflicts, the contact person for conflict management of the personnel administration (Ansprechpartner*in für Konfliktmanagement) can be consulted.

Personnel Council (Personalrat)

Besides the support listed above, there is also the Personnel Council (Personalrat). They support employees of FAU regarding various questions (contracts, health, discrimination, …). However, their focus is rather on the non-scientific employees.