PhD training

The aim of the PhD training is to provide you, the PhD candidate, with:

• Practical and methodological knowledge and skills to collect, analyse, present, and discuss research data. With this, you can contribute independent and original scientific work in the domain of your research project;
• Discipline-specific knowledge to read, discuss and contribute to scientific literature in the domain of your research project;
• Transferable skills (e.g., with regard to teaching, management, writing, presenting, working in a team, applying for grants) to continue an academic career at a university or elsewhere in society;
• Awareness of the principles of open science and responsibilities of scientists towards society and in particular, the obligation to conduct scientific practice with integrity.

According to the Doctoral Degree Regulations of Utrecht University, you should have achieved the following learning outcomes at the end of your PhD journey:

• You should have made an original contribution to academic research of a quality that withstands peer review;
• You have demonstrated the ability to independently apply the academic methods used in your discipline for developing, interpreting and implementing new knowledge;
• You have acquired and worked with a substantial body of knowledge which, at the very least, embraces the principles and methods of international academic practice and theorisation, methodology and study in your discipline;
• You possess the ability to design and implement a substantial research project to develop new knowledge;
• You can pass on knowledge and methods from your discipline or specialism in an effective way;
• You can exercise social responsibility in conducting, applying and making use of your own research.