Under the guiding motif "Science as a meaningful activity," Martina Kraml explores the research processes of early-career researchers and examines influencing factors and areas of tension. She provides fundamental insights for theological education that affect the entire field of science. Contingency-aware attitudes such as openness to life processes, the provisional nature of knowledge and understanding, as well as the unfinished nature of research and writing are central to this study. Communicative theology serves as an epistemological model, linking experience, encounters, and theological-didactic reflection.