Half-time review at the Department of Global Public Health
This page describes the process of half-time reviews for doctoral students at the Department of Global Public Health. A half-time review needs to be conducted for every doctoral student who intends to complete the doctoral education.
The aim of the half-time review is primarily to ensure that the learning outcomes for a PhD degree of doctor are well on the way to being achieved.
The half-time review should be carried out two years after admission, or when two years of full-time doctoral education or the equivalent has been completed. You and your principal supervisor are together responsible for arranging the half-time control at the department.
Your supervisor must propose an impartial half-time committee consisting of three senior researchers to the director of doctoral education. The committee must comprise postdoctoral researchers who are independent of the project and who possess adequate subject knowledge. At least one member must belong to a different department to the student’s. It is an advantage if one of the members later sits on the examination board at the student’s thesis defence.
For information about what is required to conduct a half-time review at KI, please see the general information about half-time reviews.
1. Application
About 4-6 weeks before the set date for your half-time seminar, the doctoral student notifies the department of an up-coming half-time review by filling in part 1 of Form 5. The form is submitted to fu-adm.gph@ki.se by mail.
2. Book a room for your seminar
You and your supervisor are responsible for booking a room for the date of your half-time seminar.
3. Submit documents to the half-time committee
Two weeks before your half-time seminar, you and your principal supervisor must submit the necessary documents to the members of the half-time committee.
For a complete list of the documents necessary to send to the committee before the seminar, please see the general information about half-time review at KI.
4. Announce the half-time seminar in the calendars
The seminar for your half-time review should be announced in the KI Calendar. You are responsible for contacting the Communications Officer at the department with information regarding your half-time seminar.
Please email info.gph@ki.se and kommunikation.gph@ki.se and specify the following:
Date and time:
Venue:
Zoomlink:
Title:
Main supervisor: Name, title, department/university
Co-supervisors: Name, title, department/university
Half-time board: Name, title, department/university
5. Half-time protocol
After the half-time, e-mail the Form 5 part 1 and 2 to fu-adm.gph@ki.se for registration in Ladok. It is important that the protocol is completely filled and signed by all the parts involved.
A copy is sent to the doctoral student when it is signed by director of doctoral education. The doctoral student should send a copy of the protocol to all supervisors and upload it along with the other obligatory attachments to the ISP.
Contact us
Doctoral educational administration
Department of Global Public Health, Doctoral educational administration, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting adress: 3rd Floor, the Widerström building
Tomtebodavägen 18A, Solna