[Drand] VB: Regarding your situation as a PhD student during the COVID-19 pandemic

[Jorge Laraña Aragón]

Hi all,


Just a reminder, as mentioned yesterday in our PhD council meeting, that 
in case you are not satisfied with the official attachment to the ISP 
addressing the impact of corona there is this additional template that 
you can fill and add as an extra document to remark how the corona is 
affecting you (read below). This might help to build better your case 
for extra prolongation.


Take care of yourself, take care of each other.


Cheers.


On 2020-11-20 11:29, Kajsa Blomdahl wrote:
>
>
> To all PhD students at Stockholm University,
>
> We, in the Central PhD council (CDR), write to inform about what we 
> have been working on this year and how you, as a PhD student, can 
> influence your situation regarding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
>
> The CDR is a central council that exists to be the voice of the PhD 
> students at SU. The members of the council are representatives from 
> all three faculties (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Science and Faculty of 
> Social Science).
>
> Since the spring, our main focus has been to make sure that the PhD 
> students get the support that they need from a central level.
>
> CDR wrote a statement in May about the situation that the PhD students 
> were experiencing.
>
> The statement declared that we wanted the senior management at SU to 
> acknowledge the difficult situation, to take action and guide the PhD 
> students in how they could manage in these difficult times.
>
> This led to a decision from the President of the University, Astrid 
> Söderbergh Widding, which stated that “special consideration of the 
> effects of the pandemic on the studies shall be given during the 
> annual revision of the individual study plans.”
>
> However, we received feedback from many PhD students that they did not 
> know where in the ISP this should be written. It was also unclear if 
> it could lead to any compensation and who was responsible for making 
> these decisions.
>
> Therefore, we asked for clarification regarding this and received a 
> reply stating that _a template_ (used as an appendix to the ISP) can 
> be used in order to write down how you have been affected by the pandemic.
>
> The Board of Human Science and the Board of science are responsible 
> for judging if and how the PhD students should be compensated, to have 
> contact with the departments and to report what actions are taken to 
> the President.
>
> So, attached you will find a template written by CDR in order to 
> facilitate you in this process.
>
> As you will see in the template, we propose issues that you could 
> include.
>
> These are mainly _suggestions_, feel free to add/remove/change the 
> template to better suit your individual situation.
>
> After you complete the template, it should be sent to the Head of 
> Studies for PhD students (studierektor för doktorander) at your 
> department.
>
> That person should then make sure that the Board of Human Science or 
> the Board of Science receives this information (depending on which 
> board your department belongs to).
>
> This template does not have the same deadline as the ISP, so if you 
> already have sent in your ISP, _you can still send in the template_.
>
> If you already stated how you had been affected in the ISP, but you 
> feel like you want to add something, you can also fill in the template 
> and send it to the Head of Studies at your department.
>
> Here you can also read a text 
> <https://www.su.se/staff/personnel/words-from-the-university-s-senior-management-team/being-a-doctoral-student-during-the-pandemic-1.525665> from 
> the Deputy Vice Presidents Henrik Cederquist, Astri Muren, Elisabeth 
> Wåghäll Nivre published on the SU-website commenting the PhD student’s 
> situation.
>
> **
>
> All the best,
>
> From the members of CDR,
>
> Rebecca Fältén
>
> Pascal Meier
>
> Clàudia Figueras Julián
>
> Allison Geerts
>
> Hari Nair
>
> Conrad Bakka
>
> Maryann Su Lin Tan
>
> Milena Podolsak
>
> Julia Dahlqvist
>
> Tove Lindgren
>
> Jenny Wirén
>
> Central PhD Council (cdr at sus.su.se <mailto:cdr at sus.su.se>)
>
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