Practical information
General information
PhD Office Faculty Social and Behavioural Sciences (UU staff only). The PhD Office is the point of contact for all PhD candidates at the faculty. On their website you can find the link to their PhD Information Booklet.
My PhD is the registration system for PhD candidates at the Utrecht University. All processes relating to your PhD, from enrolment to thesis submission, are managed by this system. Employed as well as non-employed PhD candidates need to register in MyPhD within one week after receiving the welcoming letter of the faculty PhD office.
Parallel to registration in MyPhD PhDs need to work on their Training and Supervision Agreement (TSA). The TSA is an individual work plan which specifies the topic of the doctoral project, the (compulsory) courses to be followed by the PhD candidate, as well as the deliverables and contributions to be provided by the PhD candidate and the supervisors. > Format (UU staff only).
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences PhD council (UU staff only) was established in order to bring together PhD candidates from all Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences programmes. The Council represents these PhD candidates in various boards to address potential problems at faculty-wide level through the responsible platforms.
Each year, the FSS PhD Council and the CAS board conduct a survey to take stock of the experiences, opinions and potential problems of PhD candidates within the faculty/CAS programme. You will be invited to participate.
Doing a PhD in Utrecht. Both Dutch and international students can enroll in PhD programmes at Utrecht University. Every year, some 550 Utrecht PhD candidates complete their research and PhD theses.
The PhD Regulations (pdf, 193 kb) of Utrecht University include a number of legal stipulations as they have been codified in the Dutch Higher Education and Research Act (Dutch name: Wet op het hoger onderwijs en wetenschappelijk onderzoek, WHW), as well as a number of conditions that have been set by the Utrecht University Board for the Conferral of Doctoral Degrees.
(Mental) support
In case of issues, PhD students are encouraged to first contact the supervisor and if this is not sufficient or possible to go one of the CAS mentors.
The CAS mentors are providing a sounding board for PhD students who have questions or problems with the research project that can’t be solved by supervisors or direct colleagues. Two senior researchers belonging to the same fields as the PhDs have taken on this task: Joyce Endendijk and Odilia Laceulle. It is always possible to schedule an appointment with one of the mentors to discuss any questions or issues.
For an overview of support offered for PhDs such as the faculty confidential advisor, PhD psychologist (UU staff only), Staff Welfare Service (UU staff only), UU Ombudsperson and confidentiality person, please click here (UU staff only). Career training and courses for starting teachers. Please check the Development Guide (UU staff only).
Financial support
Request CAS financial support for organizing a seminar, lecture or workshop.
In some cases it is possible to obtain financial support for organising a seminar, lecture or workshop.
> Application form. Please send your request to cas@uu.nl.
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences applies a uniform faculty-wide compensation scheme to cover thesis printing costs (UU staff only).
Conducting research at CAS
The Faculty Board is advised on matters of academic integrity by the Committee for Academic Integrity. An important item of academic integrity is the way researchers store their data. The storage of data is described in a protocol.
> Read more (UU staff only).
The Faculty Ethics Review Committee (FETC, UU staff only) promotes, monitors and tests ethical conduct in scientific research.
Pure (UU staff only) is the name of Utrecht University's research information system in which you register your publications and research activities. Pure enables you to have a complete, up-to-date overview of your publications (which can be published on profile pages) which you can share with others. It is also possible to generate an academic CV and adapt it for various purposes.
Every faculty has a Research Support Office (RSO) (UU staff only). This office can assist researchers throughout the entire funds and grant acquisition process. The Research Funding Academy (UU staff only) can provide you with all kinds of support tools such as courses, events etc.
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences PhD information booklet (pdf).
- Utrecht University PhD manual: Information for (prospective) PhD candidates (pdf, 1,6 MB).