Content of ISP in Ladok

This page provides an overview of the individual study plan. At the top of the page, you can see the status of the version and of the individual study plan as a whole. You can see which task is next in line and who is responsible for completing it. You can also view tasks that have already been completed as well as those that are upcoming.

• Completed work tasks
• Current work task
• Upcoming work tasks
• Established versions (this section lists earlier versions of the Individual Study Plan (ISP) that have been approved in Ladok. Please note that ISPs approved in the ISP portal are available as PDF attachments under “Basic information” → “Other documentation”.)

• Admitted to (Contains information from other parts of Ladok and can only be edited by the doctoral education officer at the faculty office)
• General syllabus (Not currently in use at SLU)
• Milestones in third.cycle studies (Overview of the planning for follow-ups, seminars, and the public defence/licentiate seminar.)
• Study activity and funding (SCB) (Here you can enter planned study activity and funding to communicate what is planned for the coming six months. Reported study activity and funding are retrieved from other parts of Ladok.)
• Other duties alongside doctoral studies (for example departmental duties, teaching, duties at external partners, union assignments, or doctoral student council assignments.)
• Other documentation (Here you can upload PDF files with any relevant descriptions. Previously approved versions of the ISP from the ISP portal are also available here.)

Here you will find information about the principal supervisor, co-supervisors, and decision-makers associated with the doctoral student. Each role is displayed in its own expandable panel.

- ISP decision-maker = Head of Department or Deputy Head of Department
- ISP reviewer = the Department’s Director of Studies or equivalent

Please also write a short comment (under “Note”) describing the expected input and role of each supervisor in the supervisor team. 

This section is used to document the commitments of the supervisors and the doctoral student, the supervision meetings held between the doctoral student and the principal supervisor/supervisor, and the follow-ups of the doctoral programme.

Please note: The ISP is a public document. This means that anyone can request access to it. So please avoid adding personal or sensitive details that don’t need to be included.

• Commitments for supervisors
• Commitments for doctoral student
• Follow-up conversation
• Midway review
• Other

This page is used to follow up and plan the thesis work and parts of the thesis.

• • Summary (Provide basic information about the thesis. It is possible to attach a file (PDF).
  • Planning and follow-up (A note can be added to describe how planning and follow-up will be carried out. Click "New Activity" to create activities that are either planned or have been carried out as part of the thesis work.)
  • Part of thesis work (This is where parts of the thesis work are added, planned, and followed up. It may include an article in the case of a compilation thesis. For a monograph, it is usually chapters.)
  • Ethical considerations (Possibility to enter information about ethical considerations.)

The page provides a summary of certified results from the doctoral student's mandatory and elective courses. It also displays completed conferences and seminars (individual commitments). Credited courses or "Other specification" are shown in a separate panel ("Credit transfer/ Credited education"). There is a separate panel for adding non-credit-bearing activities (for example conferences and seminars).

• Unsorted certified results (Results are automatically retrieved from other parts of Ladok and appear under the "Unsorted Results" heading. They need to be manually sorted into an appropriate category)
• Mandatory courses
• Elective courses
• Credit transfer
• Conferences (Note: At SLU, conference participation usually does not give credits and should be added under “Non-credit-bearing educational activities”)
• Seminars and other activities (Note: At SLU, seminar participation usually does not give credits and should be added under “Non-credit-bearing educational activities”)
• Non-credit-bearing educational activities

This page contains the learning outcomes according to the Higher Education Ordinance of 2007. For each learning outcome, you note the achievements and status.

Learning outcomes are automatically customized according to doctoral/licentiate studies.

The page contains information from other parts of the individual study plan. It provides a summary of the doctoral student's completed or planned activities and results per calendar half year.

A note can be added to the timeplan, for example, by the principal supervisor or the doctoral student. Notes are part of the individual study plan and will be included in the established version of the individual study plan.

Other roles can provide comments on the timeplan, such as during the review process. Comments are temporary, and only used as a way of communicating when the timeplan is created. They are not included in the established version of the individual study plan. When the version is established, all comments are automatically cleared.

Only the user who wrote a comment can delete it. Comments cannot be edited.

This page provides an overview of key parts of the doctoral student's individual study plan per calendar half-year.

On the page, there is an opportunity to reflect on the doctoral student’s progression at various stages of their research education. This could include discussions about achieved milestones, identifying potential obstacles, and planning future steps.

Please note: The ISP is an official public document. This means that it can be requested by members of the public. Therefore, do not include personal or sensitive information that does not need to be part of the plan.

Individuals who can make changes to the ISP (for example, principal supervisors and doctoral students) can add reflections. It is possible to edit or delete the reflection afterwards as long as the version is not determined.

Other individuals can comment on the reflection, such as a reviewer. Comments are a working tool and will therefore not be included in the determined version of the ISP.