Responsibility The Board of Deans is a consultative structure for all faculty deans. The Board also acts as Doctorate Board. This is specified in the Leiden University PhD Regulations. What does the Board of Deans/Doctorate Board do? Acting as the Doctorate Board: conferring doctorates and honorary…

The Department of Research has a Deanship of PhD Studies which is assisted by the administrative staff of the Department of Research. The responsibilities includes: -              holding start and exit meetings with doctoral candidates…

The PhD Regulations are established by the Doctorate Board. The regulations set out who is eligible to be a PhD candidate, what the tasks of the supervisor and co-supervisor are and which criteria the dissertation has to meet. 2023 PhD Regulations  The 2023 PhD Regulations became…

As of January 1, 2019, the Ethics Committee will review all new research by FGGA researchers (including all doctoral research, excluding student research).

The Graduate School of Legal Studies takes care of the training of PhD candidates at Leiden Law School. The Graduate School organises, administers, and coordinates all ongoing processes and procedures surrounding PhD studies, for PhD candidates and supervisors. The PhD Deans oversee the research progress…

A substantial part of PhD candidates have an increased risk for mental health problems, stress complaints or burnout. As of April 1, 2022, Leiden University has appointed a psychologist especially for PhD candidates: Agnes van Rossum.

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