Doctoral education (NJ faculty)

Please see the Swedish version.

Faculty Board

• Doctoral education subjects
• Research Schools

Doctoral Education Committee

• Genereal syllabus for third-cycle programmes
• Steering committees for Research Schools
• Coordinators for Research Schools
• Course Syllabuses (when not arranged by a research school)

Chair of Doctoral Education Committee (Vice Dean, Doctoral Education)

• Admission
• Change of supervisors
• Crediting of courses (completed before admission)
• Public defence
• Request for change to new guidelines and/or new doctoral education subjects

Head of Department

• Course syllabus (when courses doesn't receive compensation from the faculty or research school)

For more detailed information, please see the Swedish version.

The Chair of the Research Programme Board decides on admissions, dissertations, change in supervisor group, transfer of credits etc.

Depending on department, send the application to:

Johanna Nilsson:

• Economics
• Molecular Sciences 
• Urban and Rural Development*
• Plant Biology
• Crop Production Ecology

Gabriella Persdotter Hedlund:

• Aquatic Resources
• Ecology*
• Energy and Technology
• Soil and Environment*
• Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology*
• Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden*
• Aquatic Sciences and Assement

* For shared departments (FGI): Contact the faculty office to which the PhD-student belongs.

Find a suitable date for the public defense in the calendar for public defence (NJ-faculty)

Different tasks (for example teaching or union work) will make the doctoral student entitled to prolongation of the doctoral study time, please see guidlines for Extension for doctoral students holding elected positions.

If you have any questions about these issues at departmental level, contact your contact person for doctoral education at your department or your head of department.

For information on prolongation at central SLU-level, please contact Lotta Hansson.