Thesis defence and licentiate seminar at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

When the supervisor and doctoral student start planning for the thesis defence, the principal supervisor should contact the faculty programme director (charlotta.einarsson@liu.se) to check that the desired date and time for the defence is available. A preliminary booking of time for the defence should be made before contacting the suggested faculty-appointed opponent and the members of the examining committee.

When there is a date for the public defence and proposals for a faculty opponent, chair of the public defence and members of the examining committee, it is time to submit a notification of the public defence to the faculty. Public defence notifications are processed by the Research Programmes Board at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and should be received at least two months before the planned public defence and no later than two weeks before the board's next meeting.

Criteria for who may be appointed as an faculty-opponent and member of the examining committee are stated in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Guidelines for a doctoral thesis defence.

Notification of public defence can be made by using a specific form and sending it to the secretary of the research programmes board (charlotta.einarsson@liu.se).

When the supervisor and licentiate begin planning for the presentation of the licentiate thesis, the main supervisor must submit a notification of the presentation of the licentiate thesis to the head of department. The notification is made on a special form.

More detailed instructions on the presentation of the licentiate thesis can be found in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Guidelines for the submission of a licentiate thesis.

Doctoral theses at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are to be published in the faculty's joint publication series Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences.

Licentiate theses at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are to be published in the faculty’s publication series “FiF-avhandling”.

ISBN and serial number

Doctoral theses at Linköping University are provided with an ISBN, and a serial number according to the series they belong to. The University Library will provide you with the correct number as well as an ISBN. If the thesis is published by a publishing house, the publishing house will provide the ISBN.

Please use the following form:

Order ISBN (bibl.liu.se)

Cover

The cover must be designed according to the decided common LiU identity. This does not apply to doctoral theses published by an external publisher.

Printing and e-publishing

Please contact LiU-tryck to have your thesis printed and delivered in good time (four weeks) before the public defence.

Unless copyright or other circumstances prevent it, theses are also to be published electronically in DiVA through Linköping University Electronic Press (LiU E-Press). For further information, please visit:

Publish Ph.D. or Licentiate thesis (ep.liu.se)

Deliver your thesis to the library

When you receive the printed thesis, some copies must be delivered to the library. For a PhD thesis it should be 5 copies. For a licentiate's thesis a single copy is sufficient.

Press release

The Communications Officers at the Press and Media Service, at the Communications and Marketing Division at LiU, are responsible for press releases and media contacts. Please contact them at:

press@liu.se

The doctoral thesis is to be posted no later than three weeks before the public defence.

1. Book a meeting with the dean. To book the meeting, please contact Thomas Wise (thomas.wise@liu.se) well in advance. Sometimes, one of the pro-deans may take the meeting. The meeting is a short discussion about the doctoral thesis.
   
   
2. When an appointment with the dean has been confirmed, the doctoral student contacts the registrar at LiU (registrator@liu.se) to book the posting of the thesis. The registrar confirms the booking and informs the University Library of the date and time. The library contacts the doctoral student and offers the opportunity to hold a posting presentation in connection with the posting in Studenthuset.

3. The doctoral student* sends five copies of the thesis to the University Library. Copies are also sent to the doctoral student’s home department to the amount that the department has decided on. When these copies have been submitted to the University Library and the department, digital receipts will be sent to the registrar. Two copies of the thesis should also be sent to the Dean’s Office (Thomas Wise), but this will not generate a digital receipt.
   
   
4. For the meeting with the dean, the doctoral student brings the copy of the thesis that is to be posted in Studenthuset. After the meeting the dean writes on the thesis that it may be posted.
   
   
5. The doctoral student* visits the registrar in the D Building at the appointed time. The registrar labels the thesis with an arrival date and gives it a registration number. The registrar then refers the doctoral student to Studenthuset for the posting, and registers the thesis.
   
   
6. The doctoral student* posts the thesis on the posting tree in Studenthuset, preferably directly after the visit to the registrar. If the student has prepared a posting presentation, this is given together with the posting.

*If the doctoral student does not have the possibility to come to LiU to submit or post the thesis, a representative may take his or her part in this process. It is the doctoral student’s responsibility to contact a representative and to make sure that these steps are carried out.

All information on the public defence at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is available at this page:

Public defence of doctoral theses at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Licentiate degree

A licentiate degree can be awarded as a stage, or as a final goal, in postgraduate education. The education must comprise 120 credits of studies at postgraduate level. The education must include a scientific thesis of at least 60 credits. When all the elements required for a licentiate degree have been completed and reported in Ladok, the doctoral student can apply for the degree.

Doctoral degree

The education comprises 240 credits of studies at postgraduate level. The education must include a doctoral thesis of at least 120 credits. The doctoral thesis must have been defended at a public public defence. When all the elements required for a doctoral degree have been completed and reported in Ladok, the application for the degree can be made.

Degree application

Electronic application via Ladok.

If you are not able to make an electronic application, please contact us via the contact form.

You have the opportunity to participate in the doctoral conferment after your doctoral degree certificate has been issued. You can find more information about what the conferment entails on Linköping University's Academic Ceremonies page. The invitation is sent out approximately three months before the conferment. When you complete your doctoral studies, it is important that you review your contact information in Ladok so that the invitation is sent to the correct address.