Summary
PhD Timetable
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Before starting at WUR | |
Registering | |
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Registration at department: PhD contract (for PhD candidates not financed by WU or NWO) | |
| Upload of legal agreement by your first promotor in Hora Finita (if you do not have an employment contract). You can find the format here. | |
| Please read this page where you will find a section with practical information about for instance housing and visas. | |
| If applicable: payment of tuition fee (guest PhDs, sandwich PhDs with third flow funding) | |
Within 6 months | You will receive an invitation for the WIMEK introduction meeting.
The introduction meeting consists of two parts. During the first part you will be introduced to WIMEK, who we are and what we can do for you, SENSE, the WIMEK PhD council, and Hora Finita. During the second part of the meeting we will talk about your ambitions; discuss the freedom you have in determining what you want to develop during your PhD; and what you expect, and can expect, from your supervisors. This will help you in developing your Training and Supervision Plan (TSP). |
| Consult the WIMEK PhD education Program page to see which courses and activities WIMEK, WUR and other graduate schools have on offer; | |
| Fill out your first draft of the Training and Supervision Plan (TSP) and discuss it with your supervisor(s) within three months; the final assignment of the A1 course is meant to help you create this first draft | |
| Official submission & formal approval of the TSP in Hora Finita (within 6 months) | |
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If you want to take BSc of MSc courses or want a Students sports card (and are not employed at WageningenUR), here is the process. | |
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If you want to join the online course ‘Integrating personal development for scientific leadership’ please register after you have joined the A1 in person days. | |
| Read about Funding & Financial Support | |
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Write your research proposal | |
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Submission research proposal via wimek@wur.nl | |
| Make a Data Management Plan and upload it in Hora Finita | |
| Assessment research proposal by WIMEK by external reviewers | |
| Approval of research proposal by WIMEK | |
| 15-18 months | Go/No-go conversation with supervisor |
| Formal admittance to the Wageningen PhD programme | |
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N.B.: Check if you/your supervisor has a letter from SSC certifying that you have been admitted to the PhD programme. | |
| During project |
Discuss regularly your progress and ; at a minimum after 9 months, and yearly at end of 2nd, 3rd and 4th year. We usually advice to have a proper project meeting at least every 6 months, to evaluate the previous period, to create a space where all can indicate what can be improved, and to make a plan for the next steps. When needed, attend a walk-in session of WIMEK to get advice from the WIMEK team. |
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Our advise is for you to attend the Writing proposition workshop in your 3rd year. | |
| Final year |
At the start of the 4th year, discuss the end terms of your PhD thesis: how many chapters, the provisional titles (and thus topic) of the chapters, what the general time line is, who of the co-authors and supervision team will read what first etc. Read the doctoral degree regulations again. |
| See the Final Phase-section on the DSC page | |
| Find the way your future opponents will assess the quality of your thesis in Appendix 6 of the doctoral degree regulations | |
| Suggested: participate in WGS session Last Stretch of the PhD Programme about the final 6 months | |
| At least 15 weeks before graduation | Apply for your WIMEK-SENSE diploma |
| Ca. at the time of graduation |
Completion questionnaire Did you finish your PhD thesis? Congratulations! We hope you have a great time defending your thesis, and in celebrating all the achievements of the last years here at Wageningen University. Now that your time as WIMEK PhD will be coming to an end, we would like to hear your feedback on how you feel your PhD trajectory went. We would greatly appreciate if you could take some time to fill in a questionnaire that you will receive by e-mail; this will help us to improve our support to your fellow PhD candidates. After you graduate, we often lose touch with our Alumni, even though you are a great source of information on what is needed from a WIMEK graduate after the PhD life, and of what is going on in our research field. From our side, we would love to stay in touch with our alumni community and we are thinking of the best ways to do this. If you have good ideas for meetings or other ways of staying in touch please feel free to share them with us! you can email us at wimek@wur.nl We hope to hear from you, and we wish you good luck, fresh curiosity and courage in new adventures that lie ahead!
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