The Doctoral Students’ Association (Doktorandsektionen, DSA) is the section for students registered at doctoral education at Karolinska Institutet. As a member of Medicinska Föreningen and a registered doctoral student, you are a member of DSA. The main function of DSA is to represent the interests and concerns of doctoral students to the university administration and other relevant bodies.
Additionally, DSA organizes events, workshops, and conferences to facilitate networking among doctoral students and with faculty members.
Further, DSA also provides information about academic policies, procedures, and resources available to doctoral students. They may also offer support in various aspects of academic life.
It is worth noting that board meetings are conducted in English, and proficiency in Swedish is not a requirement for participation.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 6th
DSA Board Member
As an ordinary board member of DSA, you can actively engage with one or more of the working groups at DSA. You are also expected to attend monthly board meetings and participate in decision-making.
No prior knowledge of Swedish is required. People without previous experience are always welcome: the board is often composed of experienced members and newcomers to guarantee a good working balance of the board for years to come.
- Student Representation: The group works with organizing the student representatives’ workshop and establishing communication platforms for student representatives. The group also works to coordinate representatives in KI’s central committees.
- Doctoral Education: The group works together with the Doctoral Education Committee at KI to oversee the doctoral education at KI. This entails the evaluation of the available doctoral courses, suggestions for necessary ones, planning and implementation of the new admission system as well as doctoral funding. In addition, the group is in constant contact with KI boards to student-supervisor relationships.
- Doctoral Welfare and Health: The Doctoral Welfare and Health group works hard to ensure students’ welfare during their PhD journey. The focus spans from physical and mental health, work environment conditions to migration issues. This year some of the tasks we undertook were the doctoral Mental Health Survey, as well the organization of information events regarding doctoral student rights to social benefits and questions related to Swedish migration law. Social Events: The Social Events group is responsible for the organization of mingles for the PhD students, including the DSA pub and sports events. This group works to make sure PhD students also have the opportunity to enjoy leisure time.
- Social Events: The Social Events group is responsible for the organization of mingles for the PhD students, including the DSA pub and sports events. This group works to make sure PhD students also have the opportunity to enjoy leisure time. Wish to help organize events or have event ideas? Get in touch with us!
- Public Relations: The PR group works with distributing information from the DSA, and others (E.g. KICC, KI career service, TEDx), to PhD students at KI. We utilize Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, our newsletter, and of course this website. We also have a blogging team together with KI Career Service!
At DSA’s next Board meeting, 7th December 2023, you will be called to present yourself and your candidature. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us by email at [email protected]
