MGK
Integrated Graduate School

The main aim of the Integrated Research Training Group Register Knowledge is to train a generation of future scholars in the linguistic study of register knowledge. For the 24 doctoral students working in CRC Register, the MGK will provide a set of specific qualification strategies including methods schools, mentoring, exchange stays and peer-to-peer networking events, and with its open recruitment for one-year student fellowships it will underpin the excellence and diversity strategy of the CRC.

Fellowship program

The MGK regularly provides fellowships for up to 1-year to PhD students(-to-be) who work on CRC’s research topics. A call for a new round of fellowships is open (deadline Feb. 28th, 2022):

Current fellows are

Zahra Farokhnejad (A06)
J Abishek Stephen (C04)

Previous MGK fellowship recipients

Adler Zhou (A01), Shujun Wan (C04), Maggie Bullock Oliveira (C06), Tyler Kibbey (A01), Fenia Karkaletsou (B01), Lea-Sophie Adam (C06), Alina Zöllner (C06), Alena Baumgärtner (C05)

Regular MGK events

MGK gatherings: Monthly meetings for news exchange and discussion of current interests, needs and problems.

PhD lunches: Regular peer-to-peer meetings for open exchange, collaboration and mutual support for their PhD projects. C&C meetings: Monthly career and community meetings with invited guests to share valuable career advice and experience. These meetings may help the PhD students and early career postdocs to develop and adjust their career paths. PhD workshops: The MGK is a member of the Humboldt Graduate School, the umbrella organization for graduate programs at HU Berlin. Our PhD students and early career postdocs can chose from a number of high-quality workshops and training sessions on topics such as academic writing, presentations skills, time management etc.

Previous MGK events

PhD Toolkit 101 External workshop by Scholar Minds (May/June 2021)

INF/MGK Methods School II R Markdown and Python by INF, session on INCEpTION by Patrick Saliger from A01 (May 2021)

LaTeX4Linguists External workshop by Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Nov. 2020)

INF/MGK Methods School I Mini course by Heather Burnett on Sociolinguistic variation and change in game-theoretic pragmatics, Working with corpora and corpus data by INF, session about Eye-tracking and the visual world paradigm by Angela Patarroyo from B03 (Sept. 2020)