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General administrative information concerning a PhD position in Nijmegen
- PhD-students in Nijmegen are actually not students, but
they are employed by the university. (Other situations are also
possible, but rare: some PhD-students have their own private
source of funding, or are paid by another (research) organisation or a
company). For clarity, we will use the internationally accepted terminology of PhD-student, though.
- A PhD trajectory is 4 years. Initially one gets a 1 year
contract; after 8 months there is an evaluation to decide if the
contract will be prolonged for the full 4 years.
- A PhD-student employed by the faculty has a 75% research task and
a 25% education task. The latter consists of receiving
education (following courses, summer schools etc.) and giving
education (assisting in courses, doing exercise classes etc.) Giving
education is a task of 10% of the total. What courses will be followed
and which education will be given should all be fixed in the OBP (see below).
- All official rules, procedures and forms can be found (in Dutch!)
here. Questions,
regarding procedures, rights and duties can be addressed to the P&O
department, in particular
Dee Reinders.
A PhD trajectory in Nijmegen involves the following administrative steps
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Before (or at) the start of your contract, you will have a talk with
someone from the P&O
department (Personal Affairs), discussing your contract.
- As part of your contract, you have to fill in (together with your
supervisor/promotor) your Opleidings- en Begeleidingsplan,
see OPB.
In the OBP, the goals of the PhD project are described, the research
and teaching duties of the PhD student and the PhD supervision (who,
how often etc.) The supervisor, promotor and PhD student keep a copy
of the OBP, a copy is sent to P&O, in particular Dee Reinders, and a copy is
sent to the PhD coordinator.
- Get in touch with the PhD
coordinator for a first meeting.
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Within 8 months after the start of the contract, there will be an
evaluation meeting, where a judgment should be made as to whether or
not the PhD student will be able to finish the promotion. In case of a
positive judgment, the contract will be prolonged to the full 4
years. In case of a negative judgment, the contarct finishes after
twelve months.
At this evaluation meeting, also the PhD coordinator will be present.
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There are annual evaluation meetings, where also the OBP is discussed
and amended if needed.
- The P&O
department is responsible for prompting the supervisor and PhD student
in case any of the forementioned activities is over due.
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