Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, SLU
APPLICATION LICENTIATE DEFENCE

The entire form is to be filled in and sent to the Faculty’s Research Education Committee (FUN, Box 7084, 750 07 Uppsala) at the latest 12 weeks prior to the suggested date of licentiate defence with the following compulsory enclosures: 
1.	Summary of the thesis (1-2 A4 pages, should include complete information on the included publications/manuscripts, i.e., titles, order of authors and information on the journal.)
2.	LADOK record (with participation in seminar series and completed research education courses) signed by the main supervisor, with course certificates enclosed (certificates not needed for general PhD courses given by SLU).
3.	Affidavit from the student union on freedom of debt. 

The licentiate student
Surname:
(and former name if applicable)	Admitted to research education (date):	
First name:	Research education subject at the Faculty:	
Department:		

The supervisors
Main supervisor (name, title):	
Department:	
Associate supervisor (name, title):	
Department:	
(Please add rows as necessary)	

The licentiate defence
Title of the thesis:	
Exam (Licentiate of Veterinary Medicine, Agriculture or Philosophy):	
Date, time and place, including room, for the defence: 	

Suggested board of examiners (3 members and one stand-in, must have PhD-degrees, at least one must be from another department than the student, one must be from the VH Faculty. Members must be free from ties with the student)
Name, academic title:	
Complete address (including phone no. and e-mail address):	
Motivation/academic competence:	
Joint publication or other ties with the main supervisor during the last 6 years: YES / NO 
If ‘Yes’ please specify:	

Name, academic title:	
Complete address (including phone no. and e-mail address):	
Motivation/academic competence:	
Joint publication or other ties with the main supervisor during the last 6 years: YES / NO 
If ‘Yes’ please specify:	

Name, academic title:	
Complete address (including phone no. and e-mail address):	
Motivation/academic competence:	
Joint publication or other ties with the main supervisor during the last 6 years: YES / NO 
If ‘Yes’ please specify:	

Name, academic title:	
Complete address (including phone no. and e-mail address):	
Motivation/academic competence:	
Joint publication or other ties with the main supervisor during the last 6 years: YES / NO 
If ‘Yes’ please specify:	

Chairman of the defence (must be notified, normally the Head of department, must not be main or associate supervisor of the student or co-author on any of the publications/manuscripts included in the thesis)
Name, academic title:	

Summary by the main supervisor of the student’s development and independence (Shown for each publication/manuscript included in the thesis. The student’s contribution to each part should be indicated, including a percentage of the total effort. If the publication/manuscript is included in several dissertations the efforts of the different students should be clearly indicated.)
I.
Idea & hypothesis:	
Planning of work:	
Performance of work:	
Analysis and summary of results:	
Writing of manuscript:	
Participation in correspondence with the scientific journal:	
Is/will this work be included in another thesis? Who’s?:	
II.
Idea & hypothesis:	
Planning of work:	
Performance of work:	
Analysis and summary of results:	
Writing of manuscript:	
Participation in correspondence with the scientific journal:	
Is/will this work be included in another thesis? Who’s?:	

Completed courses and participation in seminar series
General courses	Credits (HEC)	

		
Subject courses		

		
Seminar series		

Signatures

Date:

Licentiate student:

Main supervisor:

I confirm that the research education was performed according to the general study plan of the research education subject, and that the information given above is correct:

Head of department:

Check list for “Application for licentiate defence” 

The postgraduate student 

The “research education subject” is found on SLU’s internal web: 

https://internt.slu.se/en/ (or https://internt.slu.se/sv/ if you prefer Swedish) 
=> “Research, education & EMA” (in the panel below SLU’s logotype) 
=> “PhD education” (left side panel) 
=> Choose “”Education phase” and then ”Postgraduate subjects”) 
=> Find the subjects below the heading ”Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science” (link to 
general study plan where you’ll also find the focus areas)

The thesis  

“The thesis corresponds to: xxxx HEC:” (HEC is/was sometimes called ECTS)

The number inserted is the result of 120 HEC minus the course work 
i.e. if 15 HEC course work => 105 HEC 
i.e. if 40 HEC course work, the thesis => 80 HEC 

Suggested board of examiners 
A 4th member also must be included, and named as the “reserve” 

Give the academic titles and degrees of each, along with short statements of their area of expertise relevant to the thesis being defended 

At least one of the examiners must come from another department.

All examiners must have PhD-degrees. 

No one of the members of the board of examiners should have publications or other close scientific ties in the previous 6 years with the student 

Scientific works 

Include minimum 1 to maximum 2 papers 

There is no requirement of papers being accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals, but they should be possible to publish in such journals. 

The student must be the first author on at least one of the papers in the thesis. 

Post graduate courses 

A minimum of 15 HEC research courses must be completed from participation in 
general courses, subject courses and seminar series. Maximum 2 HEC from seminar series, though.  

Those students registered after June 2004 must have at least half of the credits for courses, ie 7.5 course credits (HEC) obtained after they were registered as a postgraduate student 

All courses being included must have proof of completion, with copies of course certificates included in the application. For general courses given by SLU the LADOK record is sufficient. 

National / international congress participation, abstracts, presentations etc., while 
highly encouraged, are not accepted as part of the post graduate course credits 

Proof of payment 

All student union fees must be paid and a proof of payment included (“skuldfrihetsintyg”
 in Swedish) for the study period until June 30, 2010

Signatures 

Are all papers signed by the appropriate persons? (postgraduate student, main supervisor, head of department etc.)