The Center for Research and Cooperation (ZFK) provides some general tips on doing a doctorate at a university on its website. The following information is intended as a supplement for doctoral projects by students of the Department of Social and Health Sciences.

A cooperative doctorate is possible at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main on the basis of the cooperation agreement between the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Department of Social and Health Care, and the Department 04 Educational Sciences at Goethe University. Within the framework of this cooperation agreement, regular research colloquia are held to support students in their doctoral studies.

Information on doctoral studies at Goethe University and the admission requirements can be found on the website of the Doctoral and Master's Examination Board. Interested parties can also contact the research officers.

A comprehensive, up-to-date and extremely informative newsletter on doctoral and research funding in social work can be obtained by email from Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Rudolf Schmitt of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. All doctoral newsletters sent out since 2006 can be accessed here.

The research officer for social work is Prof. Dr. Karen Wagels.

Doctoral projects in the fields of nursing education, nursing and midwifery can be opened at various faculties of education and health sciences at universities to which individual education staff in the Department are affiliated. The research officer for the Nursing/Health Studies Department can arrange specific contacts on request.