The purpose of this meeting Ø Introduce new doctoral students to § rules of procedure - doctoral programmes at Chalmers Introduction for new doctoral students § established practice - doctoral programmes at Physics at the Ø Discuss qualifications descriptors § degree of licentiate Department of Physics § degree of doctor of philosophy meeting 2019-11-28 1 3 Agenda You will meet: Ø Lena Falk Ø The doctoral programmes at the Department of Physics § Vice Head of Department, Quality and Infrastructure of Doctoral Programmes § Director of Studies, the Graduate School in Materials Science Ø Qualifications descriptors for third cycle qualifications § Degree of Licentiate Ø Christophe Demaziere § Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) § Director of Studies, the Graduate School in Nuclear Engineering § Director of Studies, the Graduate School in Physics Ø The doctoral student position (doktorandtjänst) Ø Jan Swenson § Director of Studies, the Graduate School in Physics Ø Roles and responsibilities in doctoral studies at Chalmers Ø Anna Lindqvist Ø Follow-up of the doctoral student's studies § Administrator, graduate education at the Department of Physics Ø Tools for introduction and follow-up of doctoral students Ø Gustav Åvall, Mattias Hoppe, Sara Nilsson § Physics PhD student council § The individual study plan (ISP) 2 4
Statistics Doctoral Programmes at the Department of Physics Ø number of doctoral students at the Department of Physics (2019-09-06): 72 § the Graduate School in Physics: 46 doctoral students Ø four graduate schools § the Graduate School in Materials Science: 23 doctoral students § the Graduate School in Physics § the Graduate School in Nuclear Engineering: 2 doctoral students • directors of studies: Christophe Demaziere, Jan Swenson § the Graduate School in Bioscience: 1 doctoral student § the Graduate School in Materials science Admitted Admitted • director of studies: Lena Falk graduate school women / men Totalt § the Graduate School in Nuclear engineering Fysik Totalt 20 20 Materialvetenskap Kvinnor • director of studies: Christophe Demaziere Nukleär teknik Män 15 15 Antal antagna Antal antagna § the Graduate School in Bioscience 10 10 • director of studies: Elin Esbjörner Winters ( Biology and biological engineering ) 5 5 Ø graduate school syllabus (allmän studieplan, ASP) § https://www.chalmers.se/insidan/sites/ap/forskarutbildning 0 0 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 År År 5 7 Doctoral thesis defences and licentiate seminars Qualifications descriptors for third-cycle qualifications Ø licentiate seminar / licentiate degree Ø The higher education ordinance (Högskoleförordningen), appendix 2 § mandatory at Physics Ø Lokal examensordning för Chalmers - examina på forskarnivå § 2.3 – 2.7 years after admission to a doctoral programme § the Degree of Licentiate • scope: at least 120 credits Ø doctoral thesis defence / doctoral degree • expected outcomes § 4 – 5 years after admission to a doctoral programme – Knowledge and understanding – Competence and skills – Judgement and approach 14 Disputationer / Licentiatseminarier Disputationer • licentiate thesis 12 Licentiatseminarier § the Degree of Doctor 10 • scope: 240 credits 8 • expected outcomes 6 – Knowledge and understanding 4 – Competence and skills 2 – Judgement and approach as of 2019-09-06 0 HT17 VT18 HT18 VT19 HT19 • doctoral thesis Termin 6 8
Competence and skills, cont Knowledge and understanding Licentiate degree Doctoral degree Ø the doctoral student shall Ø the doctoral student shall Licentiate degree Doctoral degree § demonstrate the ability in both national § demonstrate through a dissertation the Ø the doctoral student shall Ø the doctoral student shall and international contexts to present ability to make a significant § demonstrate knowledge and § demonstrate broad knowledge and and discuss research and research contribution to the formation of findings in speech and writing and in knowledge through his or her own understanding in the field of research systematic understanding of the dialogue with the academic community research including current specialist knowledge research field as well as advanced and in a limited area of this field up-to-date specialised knowledge in a and society in general § demonstrate the ability in both national limited area of this field § demonstrate the skills required to and international contexts to present § demonstrate specialised knowledge of participate autonomously in research and discuss research and research research methodology in general and § demonstrate familiarity with research and development work and to work findings authoritatively in speech and the methods of the specific field of methodology in general and the autonomously in some other qualified writing and in dialogue with the research in particular methods of the specific field of capacity academic community and society in research in particular general § demonstrate the ability to identify the need for further knowledge § demonstrate the capacity to contribute to social development and support the learning of others both through research and education and in some other qualified professional capacity 9 11 Competence and skills Judgement and approach Licentiate degree Doctoral degree Licentiate degree Doctoral degree Ø the doctoral student shall Ø the doctoral student shall Ø the doctoral student shall Ø the doctoral student shall § demonstrate the ability to identify and § demonstrate the capacity for scholarly § demonstrate the ability to make § demonstrate intellectual autonomy and assessments of ethical aspects of his or disciplinary rectitude as well as the formulate issues with scholarly analysis and synthesis as well as to her own research ability to make assessments of research precision critically, autonomously and review and assess new and complex creatively, and to plan and use phenomena, issues and situations ethics § demonstrate insight into the appropriate methods to undertake a autonomously and critically possibilities and limitations of § demonstrate specialised insight into the limited piece of research and other § demonstrate the ability to identify and research, its role in society and the possibilities and limitations of qualified tasks within predetermined responsibility of the individual for how research, its role in society and the formulate issues with scholarly time frames in order to contribute to precision critically, autonomously and it is used responsibility of the individual for how the formation of knowledge as well as creatively, and to plan and use it is used § demonstrate the ability to identify the to evaluate this work appropriate methods to undertake personal need for further knowledge research and other qualified tasks and take responsibility for his or her within predetermined time frames and ongoing learning to review and evaluate such work 10 12
Doctoral student position (doktorandtjänst) at The role of the main supervisor Chalmers Ø draw up an individual study plan together with the doctoral student after consultation with the student's examiner Ø give qualified supervision employed colleague doctoral student Ø participate in the doctoral student's follow-up meetings with the director of studies at the graduate school Ø assess, together with the examiner, the doctoral student's capacity for reaching the degree Ø approve, together with the examiner, that the doctoral thesis is printed 13 15 Doctoral student position (doktorandtjänst) at The role of the examiner Chalmers Ø approve the doctoral student's individual study plan Ø participate in the follow-up of the doctoral student's research education Ø assess, together with the main supervisor, the doctoral student's capacity for employed colleague doctoral student reaching the degree Ø the head of division Ø main supervisor Ø sign the written request for the doctoral students licentiate seminar Ø the head of department (prefekt) Ø co-supervisor(s) Ø approve (after consultation with the main supervisor) the doctoral student's Ø the department's administrator Ø examiner licentiate thesis § doctoral programmes Ø the director of studies at the Ø approve the licentitate seminar Ø the department's HR-partner graduate school Ø sign the written request for the doctoral student's thesis defence Ø the vice head of department (viceprefekt) Ø approve, together with the main supervisor, that the doctoral thesis is printed § doctoral programmes Ø the department's administrator § doctoral programmes 14 16
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