The Institutional Doctoral Committee will:
- take superior decisions concerning research training at an institutional level
- advice and coordinate across subject areas and programmes
- monitor, guarantee quality assurance and report
- work out and administer superior rules, common guide lines and routines
- propose division of ressources between subject areas and programmes
- develop professional joint elements of the institutional research training
- establish routines for appointment of committees and completion of disputations
- develop good tutorial possibilities for the PhD students
The Doctoral Committees of the three faculties are responsible for research training at their respective faculties. This implies:
- organizing and following up the practical accomplishment of research training at their field
- admission of PhD students and assuring the contracting between the specialist environment and the student
- approval of tutors and final programme of study
- following up the advancement of PhD students admitted to the institution's own PhD programmes, as well as PhD candidates at the faculty aiming at a PhD at other institutions
- nomination of doctoral commitees and determination of topic for trial lectures
- determining cases concerning individual PhD students
- reporting to the faculty
- advicing the Dean in research training related matters
