About the Doctoral School

The Doctoral School in the Humanities at Stockholm University offers free-standing courses on PhD-level in the Humanities, a Doctoral School Program for the faculty's PhD-students, as well as funding for quality assuring projects at the faculty.

 

What is the Doctoral School in the Humanities?

The Faculty of Humanities' Doctoral School supports the individual disciplines in achieving the qualitative targets for the PhD degree. All doctoral students at the Faculty of Humanities are to be offered an equivalent education, consisting of subject-specific and faculty-wide educational elements. The Doctoral School offers the Faculty's PhD-students an expanded environment, where they can make contacts with other doctoral students and senior researchers, from their own faculty and from other universities. The Doctoral School complements and reinforces the education of the individual disciplines, through three main activity areas: Courses on PhD-level, the Doctoral School Program, and Funding for Quality Assurance activities.

The Doctoral School offers the Faculty's PhD-students an expanded environment, where they can make contacts with other doctoral students and senior researchers, from their own faculty and from other universities.

The Faculty Board is responsible for third-cycle education and decides on most matters regarding the Doctoral School.

Read more about the Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities working group for educational and quality matters (Hugo) prepare and process overall matters on education and quality on all three levels of education, and handles matters within the university's local system for assessment of educations. Also, Hugo suggests decisions for the Faculty Board on routine matters concerning the Doctoral School.

Read more about Hugo (Swedish webpage)

The Research Officer has the overall responsibility that the decisions of the Faculty Board regarding the Doctoral School are executed.

Contact information for the Research Officer below.

 

The Doctoral School offers free-standing courses in the humanities on doctoral level, and the courses are mainly meant for the PhD-students at the Faculty. However, the courses are also open for PhD-students at other faculties and universities in Sweden and abroad. In practice the courses are open to all who are enrolled in third cycle studies, regardless of their home faculty or university. The courses are offered free of charge.

In practice the courses are open to all who are enrolled in third cycle studies, regardless of their home faculty or university.

Since 2016, the Doctoral School has welcomed participants from more than 50 universities in 17 countries.

The Facultiy's requirements for Doctoral School courses produces creative new collaborations between disciplines and departments. At the same time, the teachers from Stockholm University and other universities in Sweden and abroad bring breadth and depth to the courses.

Read more about the courses offered by the Doctoral School

 

An expanded environment

The Doctoral School program offers the PhD-students at the Faculty of Humanities an expanded environment to operate within, both academically and socially. The program consists of three conferences, each relevant at different parts of the doctoral studies. The program welcomes participants from all subject areas at the Faculty, and participation in the program is voluntary.

Exchanging experiences

The conferences offer the participants opportunities to gain knowledge of how to navigate the research world, and tacit knowledge of the academic world is made visible by exchanging experiences with senior researchers as well as with doctoral students from other fields and departments.

New and broadened perspectives

The expanded environment also opens up greater opportunities for peer-review and collegial contacts, as well as for developing new and broadened perspectives. Thus, by becoming part of a greater whole, the experience and results of their doctoral education are improved.

Three conferences

The three two-day conferences offer training relevant at the different parts of the doctoral studies.

  • Conference 1 (year 1–2) offered in the beginning of the autumn semester
  • Conference 2 (year 2–3) offered in the middle of the spring semester
  • Conference 3 (year 4–5) offered towards the end of the autumn semester

For more information about the Doctoral School Program, please get in touch with the Research Officer (contact information below).

 

The third part of the Doctoral School aims at strengthening the quality of the faculty's doctoral education. A part of these funds is allocated to the institutions upon admission of a new doctoral student and upon completion of a defense, as a contribution to general quality assurance of the education on doctoral level.

Furthermore, once each semester it is possible to apply for funding for activities which somehow enrich or strengthen the doctoral studies at the Faculty. The activity can be either occasional or recurrent, and should either welcome PhD-students from several subject disciplines, or, if it is discipline-specific, from several universities. Examples of possible activities include:

  • Inviting guest speakers
  • Organizing workshops
  • Arranging national or international PhD-conferences
  • Research networking activities
  • Student-led symposia
  • Writing retreats
  • Other activities

The activities can be proposed by teachers and PhD-students alike, and can be funded with appx 10 – 50 thousand SEK. The head of department needs to submit the application form. Departments that are granted funding shall submit at short report of the activity after its completion.

To be granted funding the planned activity shall take place within a year from the decision of funding. The decision is taken by the Faculty Board, on recommendation by the working group Hugo.

For more information about Funding for Quality Assuring Activities, please get in touch with the Research Officer (contact information below).

 

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