Doctoral students with doctoral grants and doctoral studentships have the right to receive this funding for a total of 48 full-time months. The Higher Education Ordinance allows the Faculty to grant an extension if special reason exists, such as due to an elected post within the student union (HEO).
The Faculty of Science compensates doctoral students for certain appointments, such as to the student union and Faculty Board, with an extension of the time the doctoral student can receive funding for third-cycle studies (doctoral grants or doctoral studentships). The compensation is calculated according to the following standardised schedule.
Member of Department Council: 10 working days/year
Member of Committee: 10 working days/year
Chair of Postgraduate Students Council: 15 working days/year
Member of Postgraduate Students Council: 5 working days/year
Member of Faculty Board: 15 working days/year
Member of Appointments Committee: 15 working days/year
Member of other committee: 10 working days/year
Chair of Postgraduate Students Council: 30 working days/year
Vice-Chair of Postgraduate Students Council: 15 working days/year
Secretary of Postgraduate Students Council: 10 working days/year
Cashier of Postgraduate Students Council: 10 working days/year
Member of Postgraduate Students Council: 7 working days/year
Member of University Board: 15 working days/year
Chair of GU Postgraduate Students Committee: 50 working days/year
Vice-Chair of GU Postgraduate Students Committee: 20 working days/year
Secretary of GU Postgraduate Students Committee: 15 working days/year
Member of the Board of GU Postgraduate Students Committee: 10 working days/year
Member of University Board of Eduction, 15 working days/year
Member of other University-wide body: 10 working days/year
Chair of the Swedish Association of Doctoral Students (Sveriges doktorander) and the Swedish National Union of Students Doctoral Student Council (SFS doktorandråd): 50 working days/year
Vice-Chair: 20 working days/year
Member of the Board: 10 working days/year
Attendance, except with respect to the Faculty Board, Teacher Nominating Committee and other permanent Faculty committees, must be proven with an excerpt from the attendance list.
The doctoral student must personally request extension of his or her funded study period due to an appointment. You must submit the application for extension, together with copies of decisions related to appointments, to the Head of the department, who will make the decision on extension at the department level and send a recommendation for other extensions to the Faculty for determination. The costs are charged to the departments’ regular budget.
Compensation to doctoral students whose studies are funded by means other than a doctoral grant or doctoral studentship (i.e., industry-based doctoral students) must be equivalent, but the form of compensation may need to be discussed on a case-by-case basis.
