Valid from: Autumn 2013
Decided by: FN1/Anders Gustafsson, FN2/Eva Nordberg Karlsson
, FN3/Per Tunestål
Date of establishment: 2013-05-28
Division: Doctoral Research Training
Course type: Third-cycle course
Teaching language: English
The course aims to welcome all newly admitted PhD students to LTH, and to contribute to a smooth start of the participants PhD programme.
Knowledge and Understanding
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Competences and Skills
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Judgement and Approach
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
The course includes brief sessions on the LTH organisation, objectives of PhD training, general and individual study plans, student - supervisor mutual expectation questionnaire/interviews, PhD courses at LTH, the supervision process, scientific information management – first aid, procedures – rights – support - obligations in PhD training at LTH, presentation of student representatives, international mobility, academic conduct in research, introduction to outreach activities.
Reading will be available on a separate course website.
Types of instruction: Lectures, exercises. The course consists of two 3 hour workshop sessions. Study tasks have to be prepared prior to the final session.
Examination format: Written assignments.
For a Pass on the course, the participant must have attended all of the scheduled activities and completed and passed all assignments in the course.
Grading scale: Failed, pass
Examiner:
Admission requirements: To be admitted to the course applicants have to be newly (within one year) admitted to a PhD programme at LTH.
Selection criteria: All eligible applicants are accepted to the next available course.
Course coordinator: Anders Ahlberg <anders.ahlberg@lth.lu.se>
Web page: https://www.lth.se/english/cee/doctoral-education-support/faculty-wide-phd-courses/