The mode of education of doctoral students at the Doctoral Studies before 30 April 2019
Procedure
| Activity name | The applicant for the degree | Discipline Council | Document Template |
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| 1. Submission of the dissertation and all documents | An applicant for a doctoral degree submits: - a dissertation (2 hard-bound copies for reviewers, 1 free-bound copy for the archives and an electronic version), an integral part of which is an abstract in English, and, in the case of a dissertation prepared in a foreign language, also an abstract in Polish. (The dissertation may be a scientific monograph or a collection of published and thematically related articles). - the dissertation is accompanied by an abstract in English and Polish in pdf form. - the dissertation is accompanied by a positive opinion from the supervisor; at least 1 scientific article or 1 scientific monograph, together with a declaration specifying the individual contribution to the publication; if the work is a collection of publications, the application is also accompanied by declarations from all co-authors (or at least from the person applying for the degree and four co-authors if the collective work has more than five co-authors). - the dissertation is also accompanied by the candidate's written consent attested by their signature to make the doctoral dissertation available in the reading room of the University of Gdańsk (1 copy of the dissertation with the consent attached shall be made available for inspection in the reading room of the UG Library); - a statement that the dissertation is compatible with the paper version; - a copy of a certificate confirming knowledge of the English language (from the list of certificates presented in the Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education). |
Template for the opinion of advisor(s) Consent to releasing the doctoral thesis in the reading room of the UG Library Declaration of conformity of the electronic version of the dissertation to the original |
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| 2. Appointment of reviewers | The Discipline Council appoints two reviewers from among persons who are not employees of UG and the university or other unit of which the applicant for the doctoral degree is an employee, with the proviso that the reviewer may be a person holding at least a post-doctoral degree or a person who does not meet this requirement, who is an employee of a foreign university or scientific institution if the Council considers that the person has significant achievements in the scientific issues to which the doctoral thesis relates. Reviewers may also be appointed before the dissertation is submitted. The review process takes two months. The review may contain proposals for the completion or improvement of the dissertation, which are communicated to the candidate and the supervisor by the discipline council conducting the doctoral thesis. The candidate submits the completed or revised dissertation to the discipline council conducting the doctoral dissertation, which refers it to the same reviewers for reassessment. Reviewers submit a review of the completed or revised dissertation to the discipline council conducting the doctoral dissertation within one month of receiving the request for the review. The review contains an unambiguous, either positive or negative, assessment conclusion; where the dissertation is part of a collective work, the review contains an assessment of the individual contribution of the applicant for the degree to that work. | Request for the appointment of reviewers | |
| 3. Doctoral examination | Before acceptance of the dissertation, the candidate passes the doctoral examinations in the primary discipline corresponding to the topic of the dissertation, an additional discipline, and a modern foreign language. | The Discipline Council appoints examination boards for the primary discipline corresponding to the topic of the doctoral dissertation - consisting of at least four persons holding the title of professor in the scientific field to which this academic discipline belongs or the post-doctoral degree in this academic discipline, including a supervisor or co-supervisor; an additional discipline, consisting of at least three persons, at least one of whom holds the title of professor in the scientific field to which the academic discipline belongs, or a post-doctoral degree in that academic discipline; a modern foreign language, consisting of at least three persons, at least one of whom teaches that language at a higher education institution and the others hold at least a doctoral degree, before whom the applicant for the award of the doctoral degree takes the doctoral examination in the academic discipline. Members of examination boards may be persons from outside the Discipline Council if their composition is appointed by the Faculty Council of the day. | |
| 4. Appointment of doctoral committee | The Council appoints a committee of at least seven members consisting of UG academic staff holding the title of professor or post-doctoral degree, for whom UG is the primary place of work and who have made a declaration of representation of at least 0.5 academic disciplines; two dissertation reviewers and a supervisor. The doctoral committee consists of members of the examination board. | ||
| 5. Admission to the defence | Following positive reviews and passing the doctoral examinations, the Discipline Council passes a resolution on acceptance and admission to the public defence. The resolution sets the day and place of the defence. Otherwise, the Council adopts a resolution on the refusal of admission to the defence with justification. | ||
| 6. Making information available in BIP and POL-on | The dissertation, including its abstract and reviews, and information on the date, place and manner of the defence shall be made available in the BIP. The dissertation, including the abstract, is also submitted to the UG repository. Not later than 30 days before the date set for the defence of the doctoral dissertation, the doctoral institution makes the dissertation, including the abstract and the reviews, available on the subject's website in the BIP. | ||
| 7. Dissertation defence | The dissertation defence is attended by no less than half of the members of the doctoral committee, including the supervisor and at least one reviewer. | ||
| 8. Resolution on the acceptance of defence | The doctoral committee, in a closed session after the defence, adopts a resolution on the acceptance of the defence of the dissertation and prepares a draft resolution on the awarding of the doctoral degree. | ||
| 9. Awarding of the degree | The Discipline Council, in the presence of at least half of the members entitled to vote and within 60 days of the date of the defence, adopts a resolution on the award of the doctoral degree. |