The timeline below gives an overview of the procedural milestones in a standard 4-year PhD track.
Some of these procedures concern administrative matters required by the UvA or the Faculties, while others are specified by the ILLC PhD Programme and aim to help you and your supervisor keep track of progress during your PhD track. They are all important and it is a PhD candidate's reposibility to make sure that no steps are missed. To help you out with this, the pages in this section provide detailed descriptions of the steps involved in each year of a PhD trajectory.
Please note that the most important regulations concerning a PhD trajectory are the Doctorate Regulations of the University of Amsterdam. To be able to graduate you will have to comply with the rules laid down in this document.
Personal timeline and tracking page
As a PhD candidate at the ILLC you have your own personal timeline and tracking page, where you and your supervisors have access to. On this page you can see what administrative and procedural milestones you still need to fulfill and which skill courses you still need to follow.
PhD personal timeline and tracking page
- year 1
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explore research field, set up proposal & planning, start research
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academic coursessummer school
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teaching/organizational duties
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introductory meeting at your facultyproject management(teaching skills)
- year 2
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PhD
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doing research, writing papers, present and visit conferences/workshopsrefereeing, reviewing, research visit abroad
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academic coursessummer school
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teaching/organizational duties
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presentationscientific integrityacademic writing(teaching skills)
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timeline
- year 3
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summer school
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teaching/organisational duties
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career developmentacademic writing(teaching skills)
- year 4
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writing your dissertation
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career development
- year 5
- start
- graduation
- exemption
request + admission request - TSP
- appointment supervisor
(only for PhD candidates with own funding) - 9 month report
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feedback supervisor - assessment interview + go/no-go
- 2nd year evaluation meeting
- 3rd year evaluation meeting
- 4th year evaluation meeting
- proposal doctorate committee (at the latest) + planning defense date (at the latest)
- manuscript to doctorate committee and dean of faculty (at the latest)
- approval committee + confirmation of approval to Dean (at the latest)
- final digital version to Dean and supervisor + license agreement with UvA library
- 3 printed copies to Beadle (at the latest)
- defense