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Dream job insights

Do you have first-class career opportunities, the prospect of top salaries and yet something essential is missing in your job?

Are you looking for more freedom for your talent and a workplace where your private life and work are well balanced?

Then it's time! Stay true to your speciality and pass on this expertise to a young, curious generation.

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Dream job professor - just do it!

There are many reasons why you should come to Ostfalia now with your skills as a professor.

The best thing to do is simply ask those who are already on board: Your future colleagues at our faculties and institutes, who are passionate about passing on their knowledge to our students.

Below we have collected a few exciting insights into the dream job of a HAW professorship with professors at Ostfalia University:

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Prof. Dr Denis Royer
Professorship for E-Business and Digitalisation

Professor Dr Royer from the Faculty of Business provides interesting insights into the dream job of a professor:
What is it like to be a professor at a university? why become a professor at a university? What exciting tasks are part of the job description?

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Prof Dr Sandra Tschupke
Professorship of Vocational Education with a focus on professionalisation and lifelong learning in the healthcare professions

Professor Dr Tschupke from the Faculty of Healthcare provides interesting insights into the dream job of a professorship:
What can the career path to a HAW professorship look like? Why become a professor at the university? What exciting tasks are part of the job description?

Prof. Dr Denise Sommer 
Professor of Theory of Communication and Media Studies

"As a student, I didn't have an academic career on my radar. I was fascinated by intensive tinkering and academic discourse - which I found at university. For a long time, I saw myself more in research, but then I had the chance to design and deliver a major basic lecture on my own. That was very fulfilling and showed me that teaching is 'my thing' after all - especially in the exchange with the students, which I find extremely rewarding.

Salzgitter surprised me above all with its diversity. This is often challenging, but also results in great synergies in interdisciplinary work. Our media building with its TV studio, well-equipped computer pools and studio rooms is a gem in the countryside that I wouldn't want to miss - even if it takes a while to get there.

My research interests include media effects and media literacy. I am particularly interested in diversity in the media. It's an ongoing issue that also concerns students. In the communications industry in particular, it is essential to consider many different perspectives. But then the same experts are always asked. Access to communication professions is still very elitist. I would be delighted if our students could actually break down barriers here - in my view, Generation Z is capable of doing this."

Read more about teaching & research by Prof Dr Denise Sommer at the Faculty of Transport, Sports, Tourism and Media

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Prof Dr Diethard Breitkopf 
Professorship for private commercial law with a specialisation in labour law

"At the beginning of my self-employment as a lawyer, I received a teaching assignment from Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. I was immediately enthusiastic about the courses, especially the didactic challenges of imparting knowledge, the interaction with the students and the opportunity to share my practical experience with them for their later professional life.

The decision to accept the professorship at Ostfalia proved to be absolutely right for me. The euphoria has remained. Also because I haven't lost any of the freedom that I valued so much when I was self-employed.

The employment law focus of my professorship and the remarkably comprehensive range of courses in employment law on the "Law, Personnel Management and Personnel Psychology" degree programme enable me to mainly teach courses in which I can make full use of my practical experience.

Courses such as "Contract Drafting in Labour Law" or "Negotiating and Designing in Labour Law", which introduce students to the practical implementation of labour law, are particularly exciting."

→ Read more about teaching & research by Prof Dr Diethard Breitkopf and the Faculty of Law

Prof Dr Carsten Stechert 
Professorship for Machine Design

"I already gave tutorials as a student and calculated the service life of deep groove ball bearings in the Audimax during my doctorate at the TU Braunschweig. I then had a teaching assignment during my time in industry. So I knew relatively well what I was getting myself into.

Before I came to Ostfalia, I developed rail vehicles with my team at Alstom Transport Deutschland. In addition to the technical development of the product, it was always about improving and digitalising the development processes. The particular challenge in an international company is the collaboration across several locations and time zones with various language and cultural hurdles.

This is precisely the topic I am working on in my research group at Ostfalia. How can lean, agile product development processes be realised in distributed development teams? We use modern communication technologies, e.g. virtual and augmented reality. It is very exciting to develop new technologies with students. Projects that don't pay off after just one financial year are also possible here."


Read more about Teaching & Research by Prof Dr Carsten Stechert and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
 

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