The Graduate School at Health is repositioning the graduate programmes and the Heads of Graduate Programme at each of the three largest departments. This is being carried out to create better collaboration between the Graduate School, the departments and the PhD students, says the Head of Graduate School at Health, Vice-Dean Lise Wogensen Bach.

2014.09.09 | Henriette Stevnhøj

[Translate to English:] Forskeruddannelsen får ny struktur med færre programledere

Professor Torben Sigsgaard

Lektor Kamille Smidt Rasmussen

Professor MSO Thomas Vorup-Jensen

The structure of the Graduate School at Health takes on a new form from August 2014. At each of the three largest departments, Biomedicine, Public Health and Clinical Medicine, there is now a research programme with an associated Head of Graduate Programme. Students from the departments of Forensic Medicine and Odontology will be affiliated with the Department of Clinical Medicine.

Each programme has a head who will be responsible for, among other things, pre-assessment of enrolment applications and PhD scholarship applications, programme evaluations, programme-specific courses, nurturing scientific environments for the PhD students, as well as building networks with other national and international graduate programmes. In addition, the three Heads of Graduate Programme will act as advisers for the Head of Graduate School Lise Wogensen Bach.

Lise Wogensen Bach expects the new structure to strengthen the PhD programme.

"The training of research talents requires a good research environment and it is the department head’s responsibility to ensure this, though this will be easier in future as the department head will collaborate with the head of graduate programme at the relevant department," says Lise Wogensen Bach. 

The PhD students will not directly notice the restructuring as the administration at the Graduate School will remain the focal point for course registration and questions about the actual PhD process.

The three Heads of Graduate Programme are:

Professor Torben Sigsgaard is head of the graduate programme attached to the Department of Public Health. He was previously head of the graduate programme for public health.

Associate Professor Kamille Smidt Rasmussen is head of the graduate programme attached to the Departments of Clinical Medicine, Odontology and Forensic Medicine.

Professor with special responsibilities (MSO) Thomas Vorup-Jensen is head of the graduate programme attached to the Department of Biomedicine. He was previously head of the graduate programme for inflammation and infection.

The three Heads of Graduate Programmes took up their positions on 1 August 2014.