PhD Training

Members of the Graduate School for the Humanities follow a 30 ECTS training program, which they compose themselves, in accordance with their specific needs.

You training programme can consist of courses offered by:

• The Graduate School for the Humanities (GSH)
• The Groningen Graduate Schools (GGS)
• Federation of Graduate Schools in Social Sciences and Humanites (SSH)
• Career Perspectives Series
• The University of Groningen (including ReMa courses)
• The National Research Schools, organized in the Landelijk Overleg Geesteswetenschappelijke Onderzoeksscholen (LOGOS).
• Also associated with the GSH are a number of special PhD-training programs, organized by the Research School for Behavioral, Cognitive, and Neurosciences (BCN), the Erasmus Mundus-II program IDEALAB, and the Spirit Indonesia-Groningen program (SInGA).
• Courses offered by other research institutes, graduate schools, faculties, universities.

PhD-candidates can also add their own training elements, including participation in international conferences and summer schools, and research visits to national and international centers of excellence.

Training programme

GSH PhD candidates are expected to follow a minimum of 6 ECTS from the GSH or Federation of Graduate Schools SSH programme. Following a minimum number of courses from the GSH or the Federation of Graduate Schools SSH programme allows you to build a network and embed your research in the Faculty of Arts and the UG. All obligatory modules are offered in either online or in hybrid formats, to accommodate participation by our diverse PhD candidates

GSH PhD candidates are expected to add 10-15 ECTS to the locally organized programme through participation in courses organized by national research schools in their own field (LOGOS offers an overview of all the national Dutch Research Schools in the Humanities), or through other national and international activities (see above). Options may also be chosen from the Faculty of Arts Research Master programmes, Language Courses at the UG and from the programmes of other Graduate Schools of the University of Groningen.

As a complement to the formal training programme, the PhD council, the independent representation of the PhD candidates, organizes courses and workshops throughout the year, in order to support PhD candidates in the practical aspects of their work.

More information can be found in the GSH brochure.

Registration

Each workshop organised by the GSH has a registration deadline (to be found in the course descriptions on the website). This deadline is used to make the organisation of each workshop easier. Our aim is to create workshops tailored to the wishes and interests of a specific group of participants and an early registration deadline helps us to do so.

Deregistration

It is very important that you inform us when you are unable to attend a workshop. If you do not cancel your registration and also do not show up to a workshop, we are unfortunately obliged to let your research insitute pay the costs of your absence (illnesses/urgent matter excluded). Therefore, we want to stress the importance of cancelling your registration as early as possible.

Contact the GSH with any questions about the programme or possible courses.