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Ph.D. STUDENT HANDBOOK at IMBIM Ph.D. STUDENT HANDBOOK at IMBIM (Version 3.0 – February 2018) . AIM OF THIS HANDBOOK ............................................................................................................... 5 A) GENERAL INFO ............................................................................................................................. 6 1. What is a PhD? .............................................................................................................................. 6 2. Persons and committees responsible for the PhD program at IMBIM ................................... 6 3. Entry requirements, admission to the degree and application .................................................. 6 4. Supervision ..................................................................................................................................... 8 5. IMBIM’s writing office ................................................................................................................. 9 6. Reporting progress ........................................................................................................................ 9 Yearly meetings ............................................................................................................................... 9 Half-time ....................................................................................................................................... 10 7. Format of the thesis and public defence .................................................................................... 11 Scheduling the public defence of a doctoral thesis ........................................................................ 11 Application for public defence of a doctoral thesis ....................................................................... 12 Application for licentiate seminar ................................................................................................. 13 8. Conferment ceremony ................................................................................................................. 13 B) FUNDING, STIPENDS AND EMPLOYMENT .......................................................................... 15 1. Funding and stipends/grants ...................................................................................................... 15 2. Employment and salaries ............................................................................................................ 15 3. Teaching ....................................................................................................................................... 16 4. Insurance and benefits ................................................................................................................ 18 5. Other benefits .............................................................................................................................. 19 Wellness subsidy ........................................................................................................................... 19 Healthcare allowance..................................................................................................................... 20 Occupational health service ........................................................................................................... 20 Compensation for expenses in health care and medication ........................................................... 20 6. Unemployment after your PhD .................................................................................................. 20 C) COURSES AND OTHER SOURCE OF CREDITS ................................................................... 22 1. Courses ......................................................................................................................................... 22 Mandatory courses ........................................................................................................................ 22 Other courses ................................................................................................................................. 23 Language courses .......................................................................................................................... 24 2. Other theory elements ................................................................................................................. 24 Seminar series ................................................................................................................................ 24 3 Meetings and conferences ............................................................................................................. 24 Literature studies, “Book courses” ................................................................................................ 24 D) OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION ............................................................................................ 25 1. Housing ......................................................................................................................................... 25 2. New in Uppsala/Sweden information ......................................................................................... 25 3. Other links.................................................................................................................................... 26 4 IMBIM PhD student handbook AIM OF THIS HANDBOOK The goal of this handbook is to give useful information about the PhD studies at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology (from now on IMBIM) at Uppsala University. Through this handbook, we will try to cover every part that can be of interest to both newly arrived and ongoing PhD students, focusing on general things about the degree, economical matters, and other useful information. A lot of information can be found at the MedFarm webpage. Therefore, this handbook intends to be an easy-to-read summary, giving links to further information when needed. The IMBIM PhD Students Association (IPhA) hopes that this booklet is complete enough to help you through your studies. If you have any suggestions or comments about the handbook, please write to: [email protected]. Members of the IPhA Board involved in the writing: Marlen Adler, Jessica Bergman, Eva Garmendia, Andreas Karlsson, Franziska Pietsch and Aida Paivandy Uppsala, February 2018 5 IMBIM PhD student handbook A) GENERAL INFO 1. What is a PhD? A Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) is an academic degree, which in general comprises the mastery of a specific subject and the extension of the body of knowledge about that subject. The program should comprise at least 240 credit points for a doctoral degree and it is made up of a number of courses and a written thesis and its defence. Your time as PhD should teach you to be able to plan, think critically and make you be able to handle responsibility. The goal is that you will become an independent researcher and that you are prepared to work on different professional tasks either in academia, industry, the health care sector or the government. The normal duration of the PhD studies at IMBIM is 4 years of full-time study. This time might be extended for few months due to your involvement in departmental duties (for example teaching and/or participation in university associated boards). 2. Persons and committees responsible for the PhD program at IMBIM For questions, you can contact the members of the PhD committee at IMBIM: Prof. Birgitta Heyman ([email protected]) Senior lecturer Per Jemth ([email protected]) Prof. Leif Andersson ([email protected]) Erik Lundin ([email protected]) Also you can contact the administrator Alexis Fuentes ([email protected]) for questions regarding the PhD studies. 3. Entry requirements, admission to the degree and application You have general entry requirements for admission to postgraduate (Third-cycle) studies if you have ñ been awarded a second-cycle qualification; 6 IMBIM PhD student handbook ñ fulfilled course requirements totaling at least 240 credit points, of which at least 60 credit points were at the advanced level (were awarded in the Second-cycle); or ñ in some other way, either within the Sweden or abroad, acquired knowledge equivalent to points 1 and 2 above. You have specific entry requirements for admission to postgraduate studies if you have ñ fulfilled the requirement for a pass grade in English course B or equivalent. In other cases the application must include a certificate of a pass grade in an IELTS, TOEFL or equivalent test. ñ educational qualifications at the advanced level or equivalent which are relevant to the research area of the dissertation. Since a large part of the programme and the scientific communication is in English, a good knowledge of English is also required. For students from the Nordic countries, a pass grade in English B is the minimum requirement. If you are not from a Nordic country and have not had your education in English, the minimum requirement is to have passed an English test (IELTS or TOEFL). For the IELTS is required a minimum of 6,5 points and for TOEFL 79 points for the internet-based test (iBT) or 550 for the paper-based test (PBT). The selection from among the group of applicants who fulfill the requirements for basic and special eligibility shall take into account the applicants’ ability to make use of the education. The assessment criteria used in the selection are: ñ the applicant’s documented knowledge in subjects
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