Doctoral studies

News

The University of Tampere is renewing its doctoral programmes and their admission procedure.

Doctoral programmes and degrees

There will be three doctoral programmes at the School of Information Sciences. The programmes will start on 1 August 2012. The programmes are

• Doctoral programme in Information and Systems (majors: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics)
• Doctoral programme in Information Studies and Interactive Media (major: Information Studies and Interactive Media)
• Doctoral programme in Interactive Technology (major: Interactive Technology)

The postgraduate degrees that can be taken are

• the Licentiate of Philosophy and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees

In Information Studies we granted until 31 July 2008 also the degrees of Licentiate/Doctor of Social Sciences.

Old students with the right to take doctoral studies continue for the time being in the old programmes. Regulations regarding transfers to the new programmes will be given later.

Study Guides

The new Study Guide 2012-15 will be available during summer 2012.

School of Information Sciences Study Guide for postgraduate (Doctoral) studies 2010-2012 (pdf) gives the requirements on doctoral studies. Please notice that information regarding admissions is no longer valid.

The following changes were made in 2010 and 2008:

• From 1 August 2010 the number of paper copies of the Doctoral dissertation, submitted to the School ten days before the public defence, is 10 copies (instead of 20)
• All postgraduate students are to take their studies according to the latest Study Guide; all enrolled students have been transferred in 2008 to the new study system where studies are calculated in ECTS credits (opintopiste)
• A dissertation grading committee, appointed for each dissertation, proposes a grade for the dissertation
• The scale now used in grading licentiate theses and doctoral dissertations is: 'Fail', 'Approved' and 'Approved with disctintion'. The grade 'Approved with disctintion' is to be awarded only to those theses and dissertations which are among the best 10 %.

The previous Study Guide: Study Guide for postgraduate (doctoral) studies 2008-2010 (pdf)

School practical information

School forms:

• detailed study plan (rtf; to be submitted within one year of obtaining the postgraduate study right) 
• form (pdf) to be filled when submitting a postgraduate thesis/dissertation for examination

UTA practical information

UTA web page giving information on Doctoral studies. The UTA gowns that can be used while defending the Doctoral dissertation are on show here.  

UTA has joint Doctoral course units including academic writing etc. in English.

The School's doctoral students (who have a valid University's email address) will be added to an Email list called sis-tohtorikoulutus. The list will be used for official information about the doctoral studies.

JOO studies in other Finnish universities are available for postgraduate students.  Please notice that Doctoral students are required to include a statement from their supervisor on the suitability of the JOO courses.

For UTA regulations and study related legislation in Finland please see the UTA page. 

The Tamy Student Union membership is optional for UTA postgraduate students. Student Union membership does not entitle the postgraduate students to the same membership benefits as Bachelor and Master students enjoy. For more information see the Tamy postgraduate info page. Please notice that Doctoral students are not able to use YTHS health services.

Ethics in research

With regard to ethics in research and the prevention of fraud, the University of Tampere has adopted the procedures proposed by the National Advisory Board on Research Ethics. The recommendations can be found at the National Advisory Board on Research Ethics website.

Library and publishing information

The UTA University Library has compiled a page for reseachers on their services.

The University Library gives the following information on how to publish theses and dissertations:

• Guide on submitting the Licentiate's thesis
• Publishing a Doctoral Dissertation and
• Information on publishing in the University's Acta Series

Graduation

Please see the Graduation page for information on submitting the Doctoral diploma application.

Doctoral dissertations

For recent dissertations in the School, please see Research on the left.

For UTA Doctoral dissertations from 1999, please see University Library page.