Information for PhD students
New doctoral student
Getting started (starting procedure, supervisor, doctoral advisory committee, ...)
- Information sheet for foreign PhD candidates
- A PhD at Ghent University
- Doctoral supervision and support
- Enrolment as PhD student
- Doctoral Regulations of the faculty
- Education and Examination Code, in particular Articles 79 to 98
- Doctoral Schools and doctoral training programme Ghent University
- Faculty doctoral training programme:
- Mandatory programme
- List of specialist courses in the doctoral training programme to the PhD in Economics and to the PhD in Business Economics, acknowledged by the Doctoral Schools
- List of specialist courses in the doctoral training programme to the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), acknowledged by the Doctoral Schools
- Registration of courses in the doctoral training programme
- Collaborations with the professional field
- Form exemptions
- Authorship Guidelines
Doctoral student at work
- PhD students are required to re-enrol each academic year until they have completed the programme.
- Doctoral Regulations of the faculty
- Education and Examination Code, in particular Articles 79 to 98
- Every PhD student must report his/her progress in their Annual Progress Report. Consult the guidelines on how to complete and submit this report.
- A PhD Day is organised every year in May/June. This event hosts paper sessions, poster sessions, panel discussions and workshops. Each PhD student is obliged to present at least one paper and one poster at a PhD day during his/her doctoral research period at the faculty. The other years we expect you to be present at the PhD day.
- Application for a grant (presentation (EN) on faculty funding for doctoral researchers):
- participation in a conference abroad (procedure - form)
- stay abroad (procedure - form)
- participation in a doctoral seminar or summer school (procedure - form)
- Faculty Research Code of Ethics
- Authorship Guidelines
- PhD-charter
- The PhD-charter describes the mutual commitments ('best practices') between the PhD student, his/her supervisor(s) and the members of the doctoral advisory committee.
Finishing a PhD
- Doctoral Regulations of the faculty
- Education and Examination Code, in particular Articles 79 to 98
- Procedure for sitting the doctoral examination Faculty
- Template End Report Doctoral Advisory Committee Faculty
- Explanation for the external members of the Examination Board
- Template for the front page and the structure of the dissertation
- Sample Invitation to the public defense
- Video and one-pager
- How to increase the impact of your FEB research?
- Forms Doctoral Competences