Field-specific studies

Field-specific studies are arranged by the Doctoral Programmes at the University of Oulu, including the Doctoral Degree Programmes, research units and research groups within them. You can search for the course offerings of the University of Oulu’s Doctoral Programmes using the Education search.

Note that you can include advanced-level courses from Masters’ degree programmes in your studies. Some of these courses might be listed as optional field-specific studies in your PSP. You can find also suitable advanced-level courses in the Master's Programmes' study guide in Peppi. Additionally, you can seek recommendations from your supervisor. If these courses are organized by the University of Oulu, you can register for them in Peppi.

Depending on the doctoral degree programme, a doctoral researcher may include teaching in their degree. In that case, the doctoral researcher must have completed pedagogical studies (e.g. formal pedagogy training), or follow a course of a minimum of 2 credits in higher education pedagogy during doctoral training. The doctoral researcher may take e.g. the course "Basics of University Pedagogy for Doctoral Students" (920005J, 2 cr) offered by the University of Oulu Graduate School.

Field-specific studies are arranged by national and international doctoral training networks. Doctoral researchers of the University of Oulu can participate free of charge to courses organized by other universities that are listed on the website doctoralcourses.fi together with the university specific application guidelines. Studies are planned as personal study units to Peppi’s personal study plan. Once the study has been completed, the transcript of studies will be delivered to the principal supervisor who will send they acceptance of the course to UniOGS.

You can find additional field-specific doctoral training networks on the web pages of Doctoral programmes (check the links below)!