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The PhD Chapter board welcomes the members of the PhD Chapter to the third Chapter Meeting of the operational year 2021/2022, which will take place on Tuesday 26th of April 2022 at 17:17, at the PhD Chapter Hall “T-Centralen” at Drottning Kristinas väg 29. Here you can find the summon.

Please fill out this registration form if would like to attend the meeting. In Order to have food, please sign up no later than April 21st 2022, see more info in the registration form.

The Chapter Meeting will be focused on the PhD Chapter budget discussion, chapter board and school council’s activity reports. Motions to be presented at the Chapter meeting may be submitted to board@dr.kth.se by April 18th, 2022.

The meeting agenda will be posted here at least four working days prior to the meeting. All doctoral students are welcome to join the Chapter Meeting, but note that you must be a PhD Chapter Member (that is, a doctoral student and paid member of THS, the KTH Student Union) in order to have voting rights during the meeting.  We will send a reminder email to all registered participants.

The PhD Chapter Board welcomes the members of the PhD Chapter to the second Chapter Meeting of the operational year 2021/2022, which will take place on Tuesday 14th of December 2021 at 17:17, at the PhD Chapter Hall “T-Centralen” at Drottning Kristinas väg 29. Please find the meeting summons here. To register, please fill this KTH form. Food registration will open on 2021-12-07, see more info in the registration form.

The Chapter Meeting will be focused on the elections and by-elections of the open PhD Board and Functionary positions.

If you are interested in nominating yourself or someone else to Board or Functionary positions, please fill in this KTH form at the latest Thursday 25th of November 2021.

For Board positions, the following positions have mandate January-December 2022:

• Vice Chairperson
• Treasurer
• Council Coordinator
• Business Manager
• Communication Manager

while the following positions have mandate July 2021-June 2022:

• Chairperson
• Education Manager
• Events Manager
• Webmaster

Moreover, the following PhD Chapter Functionary positions are open for election or by-election:

• Head of Women’s Doctoral Committee (WOP) (1 position)
• Master of Ceremonies (1 position)
• Nominating Committee (2 positions)
• Standard Bearers (2 positions)
• Auditors

Motions to be presented at the Chapter Meeting may be submitted to board@dr.kth.se until 7th of December 2021. The meeting agenda will be posted here at least four working days before the meeting.

We are delighted to bring you the long-awaited result of the 2020 inaugural Supervisor of the Year Award! As you probably already know, this is an award that the PhD Chapter of THS launched for the first time this academic year, in order to highlight exemplary supervision practices in Third Cycle Education at KTH.

Overall, we received 65 nominations. An independent jury of PhD students, in which all five schools were represented, has just finished evaluating the nominations.
Without further delay, the winner of the first edition of the Supervisor of the year award, is… Professor György Dán!
Professor György Dán works at the division of network and systems engineering and has exemplified tremendous commitment as a supervisor of his doctoral students.
He will be awarded a diploma and a trophy that will have his name inscribed, and which will be passed on from one winner to the next.

Given the large pool of incredible candidates, it was without doubt a difficult task to select just one winner. We would like to stress our gratitude for the outstanding dedication of all nominees for their doctoral students, and, not less importantly, for the students that nominated their supervisors! They are all winners.

Thank you for staying tuned and helping us improve doctoral education!

The PhD Chapter board welcomes the members of the PhD Chapter to the third Chapter Meeting of the operational year 2020/2021, which will take place over Zoom on March 8th, 2021, at 17:17. Please find the meeting summons here.

Motions to be presented at the Chapter meeting may be submitted to board@dr.kth.se until March 1st, 2021. The meeting agenda will be posted here at least four working days prior to the meeting.

We will hold by-elections for vacant PhD Chapter Board and Functionary positions. For the board positions, we currently have vacancies for the roles of Webmaster and Communication Manager. For the functionary positions, we currently have vacancies for the Nominating Committee, Master of Ceremonies, and Head of Women’s Doctoral Committee (WOP). Work descriptions of all PhD Chapter positions can be found here. Note that PhD Chapter Board Members are eligible to receive time compensation for their work, which count as commission of trust assignments.

If any of the the vacant positions may be of interest to you or someone you know, don’t hesitate to send in your application or nominations here.

All doctoral students are welcome to join the Chapter Meeting, but note that you must be a PhD Chapter Member (that is, a doctoral student and paid member of THS, the KTH Student Union) in order to have voting rights during the meeting. Please fill out this registration form if would like to attend the meeting. We will send a reminder email with the Zoom link to all registered participants.

The deadline for the nominations for supervisor of the year award was on 4th of December 2020. The jury received 64 nominations made by 116 doctoral students and alumni. Note that our rules allow alumni participation up to 1 year after graduation or defending the doctoral thesis. One nomination was withdrawn. The statistics from each school is given below.

The jury shall now work to determine the validity of nominations using the data from KTH. Since only doctoral supervisors are allowed to be nominated, hence the jury shall only allow supervisors listed in the ISP to be eligible to be nominated. The nominated supervisors must be listed in sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the ISP, that is Principal supervisor or Assistant supervisor. Note: Person(s) listed in 4.4 of the ISP (Additional persons) are not eligible to be nominated.

This blog was posted by Mohit Daga, Chairperson of the Supervisor of the Award Jury for the academic year 2020-21.