Phd Defenses Around The World: A Defence Inwards Sweden

Veronika Cheplygina, whom yous mightiness think from the "How I Work" interview, interviewed her friend for this occasion. He/She received his/her PhD at a scientific discipline faculty at Lund University inwards Sweden.

What needs to spill out prior to the defense?
Before yous submit your thesis to the university, yous demand to have got a commission for your defense. The commission consists of an opponent together with other members. The supervisor invites these, but the commission has to live approved past times a academy board.
The official regulations tin live institute here.

What is the defence strength 24-hour interval like?
The defence strength takes house inwards a regular lecture room at the university. There are no formal requirements for what the accused together with commission demand to wear, although most opt for a suit.

The traditional manner is that the opponent presents your thesis together with asks critical questions nigh it, although some universities are forthwith moving to the to a greater extent than mutual setup of the accused presenting the thesis.

There are too questions from the commission members together with from Blue Planet – it is a police trace that anybody should live able to inquire questions. The questions are non exclusively express to the thesis, full general questions nigh the plain yous are defending inwards are too allowed.

Perhaps the most boom characteristic is that in that place is no fourth dimension trammel for the defense, together with the fourth dimension varies a lot. My defence strength lasted nigh four hours, a friend’s nigh 2.5 hours.

What happens next?

The commission deliberates after the defense. The fourth dimension is too non fixed, but is normally but about one-half an hour. Afterwards, yous listen a decision: transcend or fail, in that place are no grades involved. It is rare to neglect at a defence strength – if this happens, it is earlier the defense, because the thesis is non approved.
After the decision, the dissertation is considered terminal every bit it is. This is dissimilar from Kingdom of Denmark or Norway, where yous larn notes which yous even together with then demand to revise.
In the evening, yous mightiness larn to dinner alongside your committee, but in that place are no laid rules for this.

When create yous larn your diploma?

You larn an official diploma after 3 months or so. The ceremonial advertisement happens on a dissimilar day, which is held i time a twelvemonth at the terminate of May. This 24-hour interval is non exclusively for those getting their PhD, but too when professors are inaugurated. For the big universities, this ceremony is held inwards a cathedral together with lasts roughly four hours.

At the ceremony, graduates habiliment even out habiliment (tailcoat or dark clothing alongside sleeves). Here they larn their official diploma inwards Latin, accompanied past times a golden shout out upwardly inscribed alongside the appointment of the defence strength together with the faculty yous belong to, together with either a tall chapeau alongside the emblem of the faculty (in science) or sometimes a laurel wreath (in humanities). The shout out upwardly indicates that yous are married to science. Then yous are declared doctor, too inwards Latin.
Outside the cathedral, in that place are cannons which burn downwards after the graduates of each faculty have got been promoted, every bit good every bit for particular cases such every bit jubilee doctors (those who have got been a Dr. for fifty years).

Some impressions of the ceremony:





And some photographs tin live institute here.

There is too an official dinner afterwards.

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