PhD Coordinators

Roles and responsibilities

 

These are the current 3 PhD coordinators at the Department

 

The Three-month interview

After approx. three months, the department’s PhD coordinator will hold an interview with the PhD student to ensure that the PhD student has got off to a good start and that problems which may have arised, have been discussed. Form S11 must be used.

 

PhD status seminar

Approx. one year before the expected submission of the PhD thesis, a PhD status seminar is held, unless special circumstances dictate otherwise. At the PhD status seminar, the student must present a written presentation of his or her project and account for the outline of the PhD thesis and any planned publications. The supervisors and the department’s PhD coordinator will participate in the PhD status seminar. The stakeholders in the project, including collaboration partners, are invited to the seminar.

 

The responsibilities of the PhD coordinators include:

• Advising the Head of Department regarding strategies and decisions within the
  department, e.g. as member of the department leader group
• Advising the department’s staff and PhD students on the PhD programme
• Ensuring that applications for admission to the PhD programme are understood
  and processed correctly at the department before being submitted to the PhD
  board
• Contributing to safeguarding the academic and social welfare of PhD students at
  the department
• Contributing to solving any conflicts and problems arising in connection with
  individual PhD programmes
• Pre-processing the department’s half-year evaluations prior to submission to the
  PhD board
• Participating in and approving status seminars
• Holding interviews with PhD students approx. three months after admission in
  connection with the start-up seminar and the preparation of the final PhD plan
• Ensuring that the department and the research training programmes anchored in
  the department offer courses whose scope and contents reflect the academic
  profile of the department
• Pre-processing the summaries of the evaluation forms from PhD courses held at
  the department prior to submission to the PhD board in July and December

The PhD coordinator reports to the head of department.