Writing Support Services Research Proposal Support
Crafting a strong research proposal is pivotal to the successful development of any doctoral thesis. It will enable you to articulate your research ideas clearly, organize your project systematically, and persuasively communicate its significance to peers, supervisors and third parties such as funding organizations.
Our Research Proposal Support Service
Our Research Proposal Support Service is designed to help PhD candidates transform promising ideas into compelling, fundable research projects. Through personalized one-on-one consultations, we will help you refine research questions, strengthen methodology, clarify project impact, and align proposals with the expectations of universities, supervisors, and funding bodies.
We are pleased to provide this service in English and German:
- German-language proposals: Joshua Bahr,
- English-language proposals: S. Mukherjee,
If you would like to arrange for a meeting, please send us an e-mail including the following information:
- Dissertation topic
- Subject area, supervisor, and faculty at Heidelberg University
- Current stage of your doctoral project
- Relevant deadlines (e.g. scholarship applications, conferences)
If you are working towards a specific deadline — particularly for scholarship applications — we kindly ask you to get in touch well in advance. Ideally, at least two weeks prior to any submission dates.
Our Advisors
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| German Joshua Bahr | Joshua Bahr studied philosophy, political science, and classical archaeology at Heidelberg University from 2015 to 2022. Since 2023, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at Heidelberg University. Since 2019, he has been working at the Heidelberg Department of Philosophy, among other places, as a writing tutor for international students, assisting them with academic papers; he also works at the Academy of Sciences on the Karl Jaspers Complete Works project. | |
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| English S. Mukherjee | S. Mukherjee is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with +10 years of experience in mentoring advanced students in the ‘art and craft’ of academic writing. Mukherjee holds degrees from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he conducted his doctoral work in political economy. He is the recipient of the Penn Lauder CIBER Research Grant, U.S. Department of Education’s Center for International Education and Research, the Judith Rodin Fellowship for distinguished work in the social sciences, and Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Teaching. |