Career Support

Mentoring

The doctoral school of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences offers a mentoring program to its members (full members). Newly enrolling students will be offered the possibility of requesting a professor mentor (in the same or different discipline) to accompany them during their PhD and help them improve their academic profile and professional prospects. The program consists primarily of (self-managed) meetings between mentors and mentees. Mentors can provide advice and share their experience with mentees on a range of subjects such as research funding, group management, publication strategy, visibility, teaching, recruitment, mobility and job-family harmonization.

Subject to availability, peer mentoring is also offered. Under this framework, senior PhD students, postdocs or other advanced researchers at CISA accompany SDS newcomers during the first year at CISA to advise on practical matters and share their experience.

The members of the doctoral school are also invited to join the "Peers", an group of current and former CISA researchers, self-managed by the members, to discuss work and to support each other in all matters relevant to academic life.

For more information, contact: education-cisa(at)unige.ch.

Other sources of Mentoring

• Réseau romand de mentoring pour femmes
• Mentorat relève University of Geneva

Useful Websites:

Funding (general)

• Doctoral studies at UNIGE: including info about doctoral funding and mobility funding
• Prix-Bourses-Subsides Université de Genève
• Research and Grants office UNIGE (including Research Professional search tool for funding)
• Subsite Tremplin: Female advanced PhD students and researchers from the UNIGE
• Government funding to study abroad
• Swiss foundation registry
• Cogito Foundation (for the organization of KT workshops and conferences)
• Schmidheiny foundation
• Financement et mises au concours Université de Fribourg

Doctoral Students - career funding

• DOC.CH: Humanities and social sciences (HSS)
• MSCA Doctoral networks

Postdoctoral researchers - career funding

• Ambizione: Young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution.
• MSCA postdoctoral fellowships
• SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships
• SNSF Postdoc Mobility
• SNSF Starting Grants

Various

•  Bien démarrer sa thèse (guide)
• Après le doctorat (guide)
• Welcome Center (Geneva higher education institutions)
• Euresearch (Swiss site for European research and innovation)

Gender Equality Offices:

• University of Geneva
• University of Fribourg
• University of Bern
• University of Lausanne
• ETH Zurich
• University of Zurich
• Univertity of Neuchâtel
• Gender Campus (site on gender studies, equality and diversity at Swiss universities)