Ombudspersons for doctoral students
Faculty and institutional ombudspersons for doctoral students
Faculty ombudspersons are easily approachable contacts inside your own faculty, who can act as figures of authority in case of conflict or when you are having difficulties which you feel unable to discuss with your dissertation supervisor.
- Arts and Philosophy: Prof Dr Bart Dessein, Prof Dr Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
- Law and Criminology: Prof Dr Reinhard Steennot, substitute: Prof Dr Tom Decorte
- Sciences: Prof Dr Ann Vanreusel, Prof Dr Frank Vanhaecke
- Medicine and Health Sciences: Prof Dr Patrick Calders, substitute: Prof Dr Petra De Sutter
- Engineering and Architecture: Prof Dr Ir Guy De Tré, substitute: Prof Dr Ir Peter Troch
- Economics and Business Administration: Prof Dr Elsy Verhofstadt, substitute: Prof Dr Geert Poels
- Veterinary Medicine: Prof Dr Herman Favoreel
- Psychology and Educational Sciences: Prof Dr Bram De Wever, substitute: Prof Dr Barbara De Clercq
- Bioscience Engineering: Prof Dr Ir Luc Tirry, Prof Mia Eeckhout
- Pharmaceutical Sciences: Prof Dr Chris Vervaet, substitute: Prof Dr Koen Boussery
- Political and Social Sciences: Prof Dr Bart Van de Putte, substitute: Prof Dr Sofie Van Bauwel
The institutional ombudsperson deals with general complaints for matters concerning education. Contact information.
Other ombudspersons and mediators
In some cases the faculty ombudspersons will refer you to other mediatory bodies, e.g. if the solution of the problems you are raising come outside of their scope of authority:
- The Human Resources office
- The University ombudsperson(problems regarding the internal services of Ghent University)
- The University’s Confidential Mediator(vertrouwenspersoon)
- The Commission for Scientific Integrity (Commissie Wetenschappelijke Integriteit)
- In some cases, the situation may require for you to be referred to bodies outside of Ghent University; for instance, when you are having problems or complaints as a PhD fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders, you will be referred to the Research Foundation-Flanders.
Of course, you can also approach each of these commissions directly.