Doctoral studies

Field-specific and general and transferable studies not found in Peppi are added as personal study units to your PSP in Peppi.

You can get credits from field-specific studies, such as scientific meetings, research visits or courses done at another university. Note that you can plan the studies to Peppi also in advance.

See the following instructions for registration.

1. Login to Peppi, move to the PSP and open tab ”Selecting studies”.
2. Add personal study unit e.g. to optional field-specific studies by clicking “+” sign on the right. Instructions for adding personal study unit can be found in student’s Peppi wiki page.
3. Fill in the name of the course/scientific meeting/research visit/ teaching task, place and dates and possible type of presentation
   
   
   • Add name of the course in English and in Finnish. If you do not have Finnish translation available, add information in English in both language boxes. Please note, that the study unit's name that you have entered will be directly included in your official transcript of records. Do not use course codes.
   • Scientific meeting: XXX conference 2024, Stockholm, Sweden, 1-3.2.2024. Poster presentation.
   • Qualitative methods course, University of Turku, 1.-7.5.2023
   • Research visit: Lund University, Sweden, 1.9.-2.10.2023
   • Teaching task: supervision of master’s thesis/ lecturing in the course XXX, 1.1.-31.3.2024
4. Add number of credits
5. Information written in the description box is not displayed in the transcript of records. If you wish, you can fill in the section to help you with your study planning.
6. See recommendations of credits for different activities below.
7. Save the information.
8. Ask your principal supervisor to confirm the information and credits given to the Graduate School (uniogs(at)oulu.fi).

The study unit will be registered after the principal supervisor's confirmation.

For doctoral studies, post-graduate or advanced courses can be included. However, if the requirement for the degree is over 20 credits, 20 % of the studies can for justified reasons, be basic or intermediate studies that have been evaluated by the supervisor as appropriate. For example, if at least 40 credits are required, then no more than (40-20) x 20% = 4 credits of undergraduate or intermediate studies courses can be included.

The recommendations of ECTS credits for different activities related to doctoral training by Graduate School:

Conferences

• National conference - poster 0.5 credits
• National conference - oral presentation 1 credit
• International conference - poster 1-2 credits
• International conference - oral presentation 1-2 credits
• Organising the conference 1-2 credits
• Attendance at scientific seminars 0.5 credit / 10h
• Participation at lecture course (incl. student's own work) 1 credit/ 10h

Research visit

• To another national research institution (+report) 0.5 credits / wk
• To an international research institution (+ report) 1 credit / wk

Teaching

• Lecture (depending on level) 2-3 credits / 10h
• Exercises 0.5 - 1 credit / 10h
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. thesis co-supervision/guidance 0.5 - 2 credits / thesis

Student representative in administration

• For member and/or deputy member who actively participates in meetings in the UniOGS educational committee, management group or Doctoral Training Committee (at least 4 times / year)
• 1 credit / year, for a maximum of 4 years
• After the year, the member can apply the credit by contacting UniOGS coordinator

General guideline for given ECTS credits concerning different activities: 1 credit corresponds to 27 h work.

Studies included in the licentiate degree may replace the field-specific studies of the doctoral degree, if they are suitable and support the doctoral thesis work. The option of compensation does not apply to studies of licentiate degree in medicine.

The use of the licentiate degree studies for the doctoral degree is agreed with the supervisor. The doctoral researcher must indicate in the PSP that the field-specific studies are partially or completely replaced by licentiate studies.