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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Från:</b> Jonas Eklund<br>
<b>Skickat:</b> den 28 april 2020 17:20<br>
<b>Till:</b> doktorandombud.sus<br>
<b>Ämne:</b> About the situation</font>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Chair of a PhD student council, </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">This spring has been quite special with a lot of uncertainty, questions and worries. Unfortunately there are few answers at the moment, and no indication on when things will go back to normal.
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<span lang="EN-US">As the PhD student ombudsman I am included in some central groups at the university where issues concerning corona and how to deal with it is discussed. So far most discussions have been focused on handling the acute situation with safety
and maintaining teaching and a working university. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">For the PhD students the mayor concern that has been raised has to do with the “cost” of the situation, related to not being able to work as usual, with closed offices, limited access to library, canceled seminars, increasing workload due
to digitalizing teaching and so on. Stockholm University has decided (at least for now) not to give any general extension of employment and redirects the question to the departments where it should be negotiated.
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<span lang="EN-US">This concern has also been discussed in CDR (Centrala Doktorandrådet) a discussion that will continue.
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<span lang="EN-US">As for now I would like for you to send this email to all PhD students at your department or inform them on the content, and raise the discussion in your PhD student councils locally.
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<span lang="EN-US">I would also like to recommend that you keep track of extra work, costs, or situations that make you inefficient (as having to take care of kids and so on), to prepare for eventual future negotiations.
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<span lang="EN-US">It might also be a good time to consider joining the trade union, and the unemployment fund, as a precaution for the future.
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<span lang="EN-US">If you have questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.
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<span lang="EN-US">Best wishes, </span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:#C5299B">Jonas Eklund</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">fil.dr./PhD<span style="color:black"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black">Doktorandombud/<br>
PhD Student Ombudsman</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:black">08-674 62 57</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span style=""><a href="mailto:doktorandombud@sus.su.se" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif; color:#0563C1">doktorandombud@sus.su.se</span></a></span></p>
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