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Winners of the (PhD) Best Supervisor Award

‘Don’t forget that PhDs are human beings’

UT researchers Anna Sperotto and Massimo Sartori are joint winners of the first edition of the (PhD) Best Supervisor Award. ‘As a supervisor, you need to understand that your student is a whole person, not a machine producing academic papers.’
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P-NUT: ‘Working overtime is considered the norm’

‘The university should be more proactive, not just extinguish fires,’ says P-NUT, the PhD Network of the University of Twente. It’s their reaction to the latest Arbo Unie’s Annual Review 2019, which also mentions the recommendation to ‘offer PhD students readily accessible, ongoing support’.
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PNN: ook promovendi gaan gebukt onder hoge werkdruk

Promovendi aan Nederlandse universiteiten werken zich een slag in de rondte, met soms burn-out en psychische klachten als gevolg. De druk moet van de ketel, zegt het Promovendi Netwerk Nederland.
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PNN: PhD students also suffer from heavy workload

PhD students at Dutch universities often burn the candle at both ends, working long hours that sometimes result in burnouts and other psychological problems. Something needs to be done about the workload, says the Dutch network for PhD students, Promovendi Netwerk Nederland (PNN).
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Half of PhDs report mental health issues due to corona

The PhD Network of the University of Twente (P-NUT) has conducted a survey to assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on UT doctoral candidates. Its results show that 50% of them expect delays due to mental health issues and that 75% of the respondents are less productive working from home.
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PhD researchers worry about extension of deadlines

‘It is stressful, there are so many uncertainties’

The corona crisis has put research on hold. This impacts all science, but especially PhDs and young researchers are concerned about the situation. Many share the same fear: not being able to finish their research on time. ‘Most PhDs worry about the situation. None of them know if they will be allowed to extend their deadlines,’ says the PhD Network of the University of Twente (P-NUT).
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Joint PhD programme with Brazilian university

The UT starts a joint PhD programme with the University of São Paulo. The programme, with an initial duration of five years, is a means to celebrate and strengthen the relation between both universities.
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‘This guide should feel like an invisible friend’

UT researchers Julia Wijnmaalen and Julieta Matos Castaño created a book together, called ‘The PhD Survival Guide’. While Wijnmaalen wrote, Matos Castaño drew the illustrations, which ended up in a book that they call ‘an invisible friend for PhD students’.
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Promoveren en doceren met zesjarig contract

Zes jaar doen over de promotie en daarbij voor de klas staan en het basiskwalificatie onderwijs-certificaat (BKO) halen. De faculteit EWI begint met een pilot met deze PhD-contracten die mogelijk zijn sinds het nieuwe cao-akkoord.
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Fully funded PhD research in Japan

The UT is the first Dutch university to start an International Cooperative Graduate Programme with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. This will allow PhD candidates from the UT to spend up to one year at NIMS, which will fully fund their stay there.
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5000th PhD at the UT: ‘Only do it if you love the topic’

There have been 4999 candidates before her. Tomorrow, Anna Priante will become the five-thousandth PhD researcher to earn her doctoral title at the University of Twente. Rector Thom Palstra will be the chairman of the defence committee just for this occasion.
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Decaan voor Twente Graduate School

Twente Graduate School krijgt in 2019 een decaan in plaats van een directeur. Doel is om de coördinatie van doctoraalprogramma’s te versterken.
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Door afschaffing FEZ-gelden in 2012

Flink minder promoties dan verwacht

De UT realiseerde in 2017 opvallend weinig promoties; 197 in plaats van de verwachtte 260. Dat staat in het beleidsdocument Spring Memorandum, die in juni op de rol straat in de Uraad. De terugloop heeft financiële gevolgen. Het ministerie van OCW keert 3,6 miljoen minder aan promotiepremies uit dan de UT had begroot.
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