Doctoral personal study plan (DPSP)
Instructions for doctoral students making their personal study plan
Model schedule for doctoral students
Each doctoral journey is individual and needs support. This model schedule will help you to
1) complete the required credits in the target time,
2) find the information necessary for your research work at the right time and
3) plan how you can build your transferable competencies and the networks needed for successful employment after graduation.
1) complete the required credits in the target time,
2) find the information necessary for your research work at the right time and
3) plan how you can build your transferable competencies and the networks needed for successful employment after graduation.
Doctoral programme's curricula
You will find the compulsory and elective courses of your doctoral programme and their schedules in their curriculum. Please also note the possibility for the independently completed individual studies.
Plan your studies and research activities with your supervising professor:
Transferable competencies
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 | Term 7 | Term 8 |
| Transferable / working life skills + research mobility | |||||||
| LC-L1000 Research Ethics for Doctoral Students, 2 ECTS | Academic language and communication courses (Language Centre) | Possible research mobility according to DPSP | Doctoral thesis summary workshops in English and in Finnish | LC-L1012 Business Skills for Doctoral Students, 1 ECTS | |||
| LC-L1011 Open Science for Doctoral Students, 1 ECTS | Writing clinic and speech clinic (Language Centre) | (in the autumn term, offered in Finnish) | LC-L1014 Interactive Leadership Skills for Doctoral Students, 1 ECTS | ||||
| LC-L1015 Research Project Management for Doctoral Students, 1 ECTS | LC-L1013 Career Course for Doctoral Students, 1 ECTS | (in the autumn term, offered in Finnish) | LC-L1016 Writing Grant Applications for Doctoral Students, 1 ECTS | ||||
| LC-L1020 Theory of Science, 1 ECTS | (in the spring term, offered in Finnish) | ||||||
| International doctoral students: Finnish/Swedish courses (see possibilities to include in the degree from your doctoral programme's curriculum). | |||||||
| Networking with industry, traineeship | |||||||
| Talent Expo | Excursions | Excursions | Excursions | Possible traineeship period in a company/research institute in Finland or abroad | |||
Infos & trainings
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 | Term 7 | Term 8 |
| Aalto Doctoral Orientation Days and Info session series for doctoral students by Doctoral education services | |||||||
| Aalto Doctoral Orientation Days | IPR and copyright | Career + mobility | Writing the summary part | Pre-examination | |||
| Supervision practices | Researcher skills & infra | Publishing and media coverage | Public defence & graduation | ||||
| Writing doctoral research | DPSP & Sisu clinic | ||||||
| Funding | Wellbeing | Funding | Funding | ||||
| Following your progress | |||||||
| Trainings in Research Data Management and Open Science by Aalto University's Data Agents and Open Research Network | |||||||
| Introduction to research | Preparing privacy notice | How to store data | Reproducing your data | ||||
| Writing a RDM plan | Information on data hub | How to publish data | |||||
| AI in research work | Data collection | ACRIS info | |||||
| Handling personal data | How to publish your code | ||||||
| Computing, coding | |||||||
Doctoral courses and curriculum
Find courses for doctoral students & information about individual studies and credit transfer.
Researcher skills for doctoral students
Find resources to improve your skills related to data management, research ethics, IPR, dissemination of results and more!
Doctoral thesis at Aalto University
Resources, guidelines and information on doctoral theses at Aalto University
Doctoral page index
Index of all aalto.fi pages about doctoral education
