In the picture. Public lecture by Josie Dixon

"Academic Publishing in the 21st Century. Markets and Technology, Survival and Change"

target audience: social sciences and humanities

22 May 2012, 11:00-12:30 - Academieraadzaal, Volderstraat, Gent
Registration: https://webapps.ugent.be/eventManager/events/dixon

In the picture. Knowledge for Growth

Registration for Knowledge for Growth, FlandersBio's annual life sciences convention on Thursday 24 May 2012 at the ICC Ghent is now open on www.knowledgeforgrowth.be/registration.

Information about your Doctoral School and the Doctoral Training Programme

Information for PhD students registered for the new programma of study

• Managing your curriculum in OASIS (screen shots)
• Annual submission of your curriculum in OASIS (screen shots)
• Final submission of your curriculum in OASIS (screen shots)
  

Information for PhD students with a first registration in 2010-2011 or 2011-2012

• General information
  
• Slides Welcome Day Doctoral School of Life Sciences and Medicine 2011
  

Information for PhD students registered for the new programme of study, with a first registration prior to 2010-2011

• Transitional measures: overview
• Overview of the changes (old programme compared to new programme of study)
  
• Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences: New regulations and transition rules

5 Doctoral Schools

All new doctoral students enrolled at Ghent University will automatically become a member of one of the Doctoral Schools. There are five Doctoral Schools that support junior researchers during their research training. Each of the Doctoral Schools has its own specific research focus:

• Arts, Humanities and Law
  
• Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• (Bioscience) Engineering
• Life Sciences and Medicine

You will have to decide which Doctoral School best meets your research niche – this may be fairly obvious in some cases, but for interdisciplinary research this choice will best be made in consultation with your supervisor(s) or doctoral guidance committee.

Your faculty remains responsible for academic admission of a PhD proposal, the defense of the dissertation and the granting of degrees. Your Doctoral School will more particularly support you during your doctoral research.

Benefits & duties

Registering at a Doctoral School offers some clear opportunities.

• Research coaching is still provided by a personal supervisor, but the Doctoral Schools provide assistance to all of the parties involved in doctorate research. They offer top-level courses to doctoral students both within and outside of their own discipline. They complement relevant skills training with research-related activities.
• In addition, the Doctoral Schools organise guest lectures, information sessions, promotional events and interaction with industry, and as such keep a finger on the pulse of external stakeholders.
  

All members of the Doctoral Schools have to submit an annual progress report. 

Mission

The Doctoral Schools have a three-fold mission:

• to increase the international and social value of the doctorate from the perspective of potential researchers as well as from a labour-market point of view,
• to enhance the support provided to doctoral students in the course of their doctorate research,
• to strenghten a quality culture in (doctoral) research.