Third-cycle courses
Luleå University of Technology offers general third-cycle courses available to doctoral students in the following areas; theory of science, research ethics, research methodology, communication for researchers and leadership. The departments also give other courses with subject-wide or in-depth content.
General courses in 2026-2027
Read more about the courses in the lists below.
- Established offer 2026-2027 pdf, 121.9 kB. (Only in Swedish)
Course syllabus will be published no later than 31 December 2025, in headings below.
Spring 2026
- FOR042F Philosophy of Science 7,5 credits
- FOR048F Structures in Academic English 7,5 credits
- FOR049F Research Ethics 4.5 credits
- FOR054F Multivariate statistical methods 7.5 credits
- FOR055F Branding you for doctoral students 2.0 credits
- FOR061F Advanced presentation and oral communication skills ECTS/HP: 3 ECTS
- FOE060F Practical AI for Doctoral Research ECTS/HP: 3 ECTS
Autumn 2026
- FOR043F Project management 4.5 credits
- FOR044F Academic publishing 4.5 credits
- FOR055F Branding you for doctoral students 2.0 credits
- FOR030F Sustainable Development 7.5 credits
- FOR052F Writing a literature review 2.0 credits
- FOR059F Gender Equality Perspectives in Research 2.0 credits
Spring 2027
- FOR042F Philosophy of Science 7,5 credits
- FOR056F, Applied life cycle assessment 7.5 credits
- FOR058F, Linear Algebra, 7.5 credits
- FOR048F Structures in Academic English 7,5 credits
- FOR049F Research Ethics 4.5 credits
- FOR047F Case study methods 7.5 credits
- FOR057F Reach out with your message—Oral communication for a broader audience 2.0 hp
Autumn 2027
Courses depending on department
Departments third-cycle courses
On the departments websites you can find information about courses with subject-wide and in-depth content given by the departments.
Social Sciences, Technology and Arts
- ETKS010 Introduction to design research 7.5 credits
- ETKS013 Design Theory Immersion 7.5 credits
- ETKS014, History of science 7.5 credits
- ETKS015, Introduction to Artistic Research 7.5 credits
- ETKS016 Introduction to Biometric Research 7.5 ECTS
- FOR030F Sustainable Development 7.5 credits
- FOR043F Project Management 4.5 credits (FOR043F will be implemented in HT 2024) 4.5 credits
- FOR044F Academic publishing 4.5 credits
- FOR045F Experimental methods and design of experiments 7.5 credits
- FOR047F Case study methodology 7.5 credits
- FOR052F Writing a literature review 2.0 credits
- FOR054F, Multivariate statistical methods, 7.5 credits
- FOR055F Branding you for doctoral students 2.0 credits
- FOR057F Reach out with your message - Oral Communication for a Wider Audience 2.0 credits
- FOR059F Gender Equality Perspectives in Research 2.0 credits
Health, Education and Technology
- FOR049F Research ethics 4.5 credits
- FOR051F Qualitative research: theory and method 7.5 credits
- FOR048F Structures in Academic English 7.5 credits
- FOR042F Theory of Science 7.5 credits
- HLT0001 Quantitative research methodology in health sciences ECTS/HP: 5.0
- HLT0002 Qualitative research methodology in health sciences ECTS/HP: 5.0
- HLT0010 Precision health – perspectives and applications ECTS/HP 4.5hp
Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- FOR041F Instrumental analysis - X-ray diffraction (XRD) 5.0 credits
- FOR040F Instrumentell analysis - scanning electron mikroscopy (SEM) 5.0 hp
- Introduction to Thermal Analysis: Principles, Techniques and Applications
Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Engineering Sciences and Mathematics
- FOR058F, Linear Algebra, 7.5 credits
- FOR046F, Applied Bayesian data analysis, 7.5 credits
- TVM0025, Functional Analysis, 7.5 credits
- TVM0023, Introduction to PhD studies at TVM, 4.0 credits
- TVM0026, Sustainable Hydrogen Value Chains
- TVM0027, Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Applied life cycle assessment 7.5 credits, FOR056F
- TVM0028, Systems perspectives on biomass resources
- TVM0005, Fuel conversion during thermochemical conversion technologies
- TVM0017 Turbulence 7.5 credits
- TVM0030, Steels: From Fundamentals to Future Innovations
- TVM0018, Turbulence II
Skills development courses and training
Some of the courses may give credits if the principal supervisor accepts the course as a part of the doctoral students individual study programme.
Courses that the doctoral student´s principal supervisor deems to be included in the doctoral degree are registered in the study documentation system Ladok with the principal supervisor as examiner.
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