Roles of the Vice Head of the PhD School
The Vice Head of the PhD School has the overall administrative responsibility for the PhD School. Other tasks also includes:
- quality assurance of the PhD school and international evaluation
- is responsible for drafting the rules and guidelines for the PhD School
- hearings, memorandums to the Faculty Management and survey
- handles cases regarding approval of environmental change, knowledge dissemination and application for change of title
- conducts introductory courses for new PhD students
- conducts PhD Supervision courses for PhD supervisors
- is available to students and supervisors for guidance as well as confidential meetings
- handles the administrative cooperation with other faculties at SDU, the central SDU administration, HR-development and SDUB
- is secretary to the Faculty PhD committee
- implements and follow up on the recommendations from the Faculty PhD Committee
- is secretary to the Head of the PhD School
- handles administrative matters regarding internal and external cooperation agreements concerning PhD study
- represents the PhD School administration in the Faculty PhD Committee and the SDU PhD Coordination Committee (PhD-K)
- represents the PhD School in the network group for the other Danish Universities
- is the facilitator and contact person for the cooperation between the department PhD secretaries
- is responsible for optimization of web and administrative systems for the PhD School administration of PhD studies
- is the facilitator for the PhD School management of the GDPR guidelines and process description of the school administration
- provides coaching for the PhD students