Being a PhD Student
Information for employed doctoral students
As an employed doctoral student, you have the same rights as other employees at the university, including health care and occupational health care. More information about what applies to doctoral students can be found on the page for postgraduate education and more generally for your rights as an employee at LTU is the internal employee web.
Information for grant holders/other forms of employment
Health care - Scholarship holders are not entitled to health care/style cards.
Insurance cover - The head of department is responsible for providing information to the scholarship holder about the conditions that apply to the scholarship. It is particularly important that the scholarship holder receives information about the insurance cover that applies during the scholarship period. The scholarship holder should be made aware of the importance of insurance coverage and be encouraged to contact insurance companies to take out their own life and accident insurance.
LTU has taken out collective insurance "Statens grupp- och individförsäkring" with Kammarkollegiet for scholarship holders. The insurance includes protection in case of acute accidents, acute medical and dental care, home transport protection, property protection, liability protection and legal protection. The insurance conditions are available on the staff website.
Illness - Scholarship holders from abroad are only entitled to emergency medical care, after which they must be treated in their home country. It is therefore important to have your own private health insurance. For possible entitlement to sickness benefit, please contact Försäkringskassan.
Scholarship amount - The minimum scholarship amount is linked to step 1 of the salary scale for doctoral students minus tax. Payment of education grants should be made every three months.
Doctoral education and work environment
The PhD Student Association works continuously to ensure that all doctoral students receive the education they are entitled to and that they have a good working environment. The PhD Student Association is constantly working to continue to improve both the education and the work environment for all doctoral students at LTU. If you have any suggestions or if you would like to get involved in these issues, please contact us and help us in the work to improve the education and work environment for all doctoral students at Luleå University of Technology.
Doctoral student representative
If you as a doctoral student feel a need to discuss your work situation, supervisor or similar with an impartial person, contact the doctoral student representative.
The Supervisor Award
In order to draw attention to good supervisory efforts in doctoral education, the Teknologkåren in collaboration with the Doctoral Student Section in October 2008 established a prize for commendable supervisory efforts. You as a doctoral student at LTU have the opportunity to nominate supervisors for this award. The prize is awarded at the academic ceremony in November. The winner is chosen by a jury consisting of the President of the Student Union and doctoral students appointed by the PhD Student Association.
About the PhD Student Association
Context
The purpose of the PhD Student Association at Luleå University of Technology is to safeguard the interests of doctoral students in general and to participate in the development of doctoral education. This is mainly done by representing doctoral students in various bodies within the university, such as the university board and the faculty boards. The doctoral student section also has representatives in the departments' management groups, which provides increased opportunities to monitor doctoral student issues at departmental level.
The section board
The Section Board handles the day-to-day operations of the Doctoral Student Section and consists of a chairperson, secretary and at least three other members. Mainly current issues are discussed in boards and committees where the section is represented.
A part of the Student Union
The PhD Student Association is one of the seven sections of the Student Union and holds two of the total 35 seats in the Student Council, which is the highest decision-making body of the Student Union. All important strategic decisions are made at the Union's Council meetings, which are held about eight times a year.
Since the Student Union is represented in almost all decision-making groups at Luleå University of Technology, such as the University Board and the Faculty Boards, this is another channel of influence in addition to the doctoral student section's own seats. Teknologkåren's main areas of work are labor market, education monitoring and study social issues.
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