Doctoral Student
Doctoral Programme ANIWEL

The University of Helsinki – among the best in the world

The University of Helsinki is one of the best multidisciplinary research universities in the world. The high-quality research carried out by the university creates new knowledge for educating diverse specialists in various fields, and for utilisation in social decision-making and the business sector. The University of Helsinki is an international academic community of 40,000 students and staff members. It operates on four campuses in Helsinki and at 17 other locations.

The University will introduce a doctoral education system consisting of four doctoral schools and 32 doctoral programmes at the beginning of 2014. The goal of the reform is to improve the quality and efficiency of the doctoral education.

The University of Helsinki invites applications for

DOCTORAL STUDENT POSITIONS

in the doctoral programme ANIWEL for a 1–4 year period starting from 1.1.2014.

ANIWEL is an internationally competitive doctoral program which was established and will be directed by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. ANIWEL will educate doctors in veterinary medicine and philosophy. The research areas of the doctoral program are clinical and translational veterinary medicine as well as animal health and welfare. Animal protection, supervision of animal protection, and research of environmental health are also included in the research focus of the doctoral program.

The duties of a doctoral student are to work on his or her own doctoral thesis and to complete his or her postgraduate studies. The duties also include teaching and other tasks.

A doctoral student must hold a second-cycle degree and have an approved research proposal. Other requirements include the ability and motivation, as demonstrated in previous degree studies or otherwise, to pursue postgraduate studies and a doctoral degree according to the study plan and research proposal. The appointee must hold the right to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki by the start of the appointment.

Fluent spoken and written English is the required knowledge of languages.

The University of Helsinki offers a salary dependent on qualifications and work experience. The salary will be based on levels 2–4 of the job requirement scheme for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointee shall be paid a salary component based on personal work performance. The salary will be EUR 2022–2970 per month, depending on the appointee’s qualifications and work experience. The appointment starts with a probationary period of four months.

The application form can be found on the following address: http://www.vetmed.helsinki.fi/english/administration/open_positions.html

The application shall include the documents mentioned in the application form as a single PDF format document. Applications addressed to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine must be delivered to the following address: kirjaamo-vetmed@helsinki.fi . Please mention in the subject field of the email the reference “ANIWEL application”.

Application period ends on 31 October 2013.

For further information on the doctoral schools, please see http://www.helsinki.fi/research/doctoralschools.shtml

For further information on the doctoral student positions, please contact Marianna Norring (marianna.norring@helsinki.fi), tel. +358-50-3185166.

www.helsinki.fi/university

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