Representative positions within Uppsala University:
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Your desired position is not on the list?
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More information on the available positions
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General information regarding being a PhD student representative
What does it mean to be a PhD student representative?
Being a PhD student representative elected by DN means that you are assigned by a democratic manner to represent all of the PhD students in the university. It is not a job, and you are not elected as an expert, but as a member of a community and as a PhD student colleague. As a PhD student, your task is only to represent PhD students and bring PhD student point of view to the tables where decisions are made in a way you deem good. If not for PhD student representatives, in many decisions PhD students would be lost between interests of regular staff members and students.
By volunteering for a PhD student representation position you volunteer some of your time to strenghten the democracy ideal of higher education. You are mostly free to work as you wish, and we trust the judgement of elected PhD student representatives in the meetings they attend. Of course, you are entitled and encouraged to ask for opinions of other student representatives, or your fellow PhD colleagues, if necessary. For more information, see the guidelines on student influence: https://www.regler.uu.se/document/?contentId=1015190
What does a student represenative gain from volunteering?
In addition to non-tangible perks such as attainment of high-employable skills and CV rows, you are awarded with prolongation and possibly a monetary compensation. Prolongation roughly means that you are entitled to a contract extension in UU for your PhD studies by a set amount of working days. Prolongation within UU is based on this document: https://www.regler.uu.se/digitalAssets/14/c_14339-l_3-k_forlangning-av-studietid-for-doktorand-med-fortroendeuppdrag.pdf. Monetary compensation is decided in the yearly budget of DN by UUFS.
As a student representative, you will be added to a mailing list of PhD student representatives and are invited to monthly DN meetings.
What is expected from a student representative?
We expect you to work in your elected position as indicated by the position. Usually this means by attending meetings and doing other possible tasks. We do not expect you to work over your assigned prolongation amount, and most of the positions are fairly light compared to the perks you get out of them.
If there are some crucial information or if you need help when doing your representative work, we expect you to contact DN chair or to attend DN meetings in order to discuss these things. In addition, we wish to hear updates from your positions every now and then.
Election Process
To be announced soon!
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction for DN to elect student representatives is delegated to DN by the Student Unions in Uppsala (https://www.uufs.se/) according to DN regulations: https://uudoctoralboard.se/docs/dn-regulations/