About the Doctoral School

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.

Courses offered by the Doctoral School

An expanded environment

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