University of Helsinki
New PhD representatives will be elected again this autumn. The elections will be organized by HYVÄT (with help from the coordinators), all the way from publishing the application announcement to collecting the list of candidates and performing the actual elections.
In the core of all this is the election committee, that consists of at least four members, preferably at least one from each doctoral school. This impartial committee organizes all the practical matters concerning the elections. So it has a huge effect in the university’s doctoral education for the next two years.
The PhD representative election guidelines (attached) list the duties of the committee:
1) to inform interested parties that university PhD representative positions in the doctoral schools and doctoral programmes are open for application;
2) organize the representative elections;
3) provide the deans of the faculties a list of proposed candidates up for election to the doctoral
programme steering groups, and give the rector a list of proposed candidates for election to the
doctoral school steering groups;
4) to keep the board of the association informed about the progress of the elections;
5) to inform the student union about the progress of the elections.
See more information in the attached guidelines (both in Finnish and in English). Please note that there might be small changes to the guidelines before the forming of the committee. The essential parts are still planned to be left unchanged.
Please send your application to be a member of the committee to phd-board@helsinki.fi by March 27th 2019.
Also feel free to ask any questions if something was left unclear.
Please understand that members of the election committee cannot apply for a PhD representative position themselves.