Induction
Induction materials
You can utilise an induction checklist to ensure which practicalities you should cover in your induction with a new supervisee.
If the research includes laboratory work, then issues related to laboratory safety must be covered in the induction.
HR processes
- If your supervisee has receive a salaried position, s/he can familiarise her/himself with new employee quick start guide or participate in new staff orientation, where HR aspects will be covered.
- If your supervisee is a grant-based researcher, s/he can familiarise her/himself with information for grant-funded researchers and Grant information for researchers- guidance.
Digital environments and skills
If your supervisee is new to UEF and/or lack necessary digital skills
- Digistartti offers an introduction to the digital study environments used at the UEF
- IT-services provide short-term trainings e.g. software usage skills.
Induction to doctoral studies
Personal study plan
As a (main) supervisor, you should help your supervisee with creating the personal study plan.
- Personal study plan must be created within three months after receiving the right to study.
- Requirements of the doctoral programme must be followed when creating the personal study plan.
- It is advisable to discuss and take into account the supervisee's career goals in creating the personal study plan.
- Doctoral School offers studies in transferable skills, e.g. in researchers skills, communication skills, and general work-life skills.
- In addition, it is possible to include (within the frames of doctoral programme) other studies e.g. statistics, university pedagogy, or entrepreneurship.
- Help with issues related to personal study plan can be obtained from the coordinators and officers of the faculties.
Information channels
Information on issues related to starting doctoral studies can be found in Handbook of Doctoral Education.
If your supervisee has not been studying at the UEF before, the other information channels and systems used at the may also be unfamiliar to him/her.
- It is recommendable to join Doctoral School Yammer group
- Most of the doctoral programmes have their own yammer groups, which the supervisee should join in order to stay updated on the topical issues.
Your duty as a supervisor is to help the doctoral researcher in securing funding. Doctoral studies can be funded for example by a scholarship or by working as a researcher in a research project. More information about those as well as funds granted by the Faculties for starting or finishing a dissertation, traveling and printing the dissertation may be found on the page funding options of doctoral studies.
HR-information:
- Grants and 10% contract of employment
- Information for new staff (on salaried positions)
Training on applying research funding
All faculties organise courses for doctoral researchers on applying research funding. Learn more on the topic on the page Other courses and training.