Support for PhD students

On the webpage of The Graduate School you can find an overview of the different kinds of support The Graduate School and The University of Copenhagen provide to PhD students enrolled at The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

Here we mention selected topics:

PhD counsellors

At the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, there are two PhD counsellors – one for basic research: Associate Professor Andrea Heinz, and one for clinical research: Clinical Professor Ann Møller. The PhD counsellors offer impartial advise to all PhD students that experience challenges during their PhD studies. Read more about the PhD counsellors.

PhD coordinators

At the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, there is a PhD coordinator in each graduate programme. The PhD coordinator helps to support the steering committee in the graduate programme, coordinates courses and activities, and is available for guidance of PhD students. The PhD coordinator in the DRA programme is Marianne W. Jørgensen. Read more about the PhD coordinators.

Coaching

The Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences offers coaching to PhD students enrolled at The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences; read more about coaching.

Psychological counselling

Your options for psychological counselling depends on your place of employment; read more about psychological counselling.

Offensive behaviour

The ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​University of Copenhagen wishes to emphasise that offensive behaviour towards staff and students is not accepted. Read more on KUnet and see Guidelines in case of offensive behaviour at Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology and Department of Pharmacy (info box on front page).