From Halle to the world: Testimonials
Claudia Löwe, M.A.
Ph.D. candidate and Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes at the Faculty of Philosophy III, Educational Sciences
Institute for Educational Rehabilitation
I have been a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Educational Rehabilitation at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg since 2012.
Concerning my dissertation "Professional teaching, teacher’s beliefs and diversity in the classroom - an international point of view for future attitudes and practices of teaching" I moved to the United States of America (Washington, D.C./ Pennsylvania) and to Canada (New Brunswick) for field research in 2013. For the process of data collection for the main study I was looking for secondary schools including the educational staff, students and parents belonging to that school. That way I expected to learn more about different perspectives and experiences dealing with diversity in the classroom and in societies with existing inclusive educational systems.
Christian Lau
PhD candidate and Lecturer at the Chair Finance and Banking at the Faculty of Law and Economics
I studied business administration and mathematics at my hometown Hannover. During that time I had a stay abroad at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. Now I’m a phd student at MLU Halle-Wittenberg at the School of Business and Economics. My field of research is heavy tailed distributions in financial markets. In the beginning of 2013 I was staying at Senshu University in Japan, one of MLU’s partner universities, for a visiting research. Although previously I had some doubts, I am very happy now that I took this chance. Staying abroad is not just solely for creating value for a thesis or CV. I think it can be a very important step in one’s personal development.