The Faculty Council appoints two preliminary examiners and grading committee for the thesis manuscript. The proposal on the preliminary examiners and grading committee is made by the coordinating academic. The proposal must be approved by the doctoral candidate.
The impartiality of the preliminary examiners and opponent will be verified at Viikki doctoral study services. The senior advisor acting as the presenting official will prepare the matter for the agenda of the Faculty Council. The timetables of the faculty councils of the Faculty of Pharmacy are decided on a yearly basis. The timetables are available on the Flamma-site of the Faculty of Pharmacy.
For the purpose of appointing preliminary examiners, the doctoral candidate must submit a dissertation manuscript with the documents listed below to Viikki doctoral study services by email at viikki-phd@helsinki.fi by the deadline set for the submission of materials to the Faculty Council:
1. The dissertation manuscript in one PDF file. The manuscript includes the abstract and component articles of the dissertation. Should the file be too large to send by email, the doctoral candidate can send it, for example, with Funet FileSender.
2. A report on the division of labour, if the dissertation contains co-authored publications. The division of labour between the authors must be explained briefly in such a way that it is possible for the preliminary examiners and the Faculty Council to assess the sufficiency of the doctoral candidate’s independent scientific contribution to the dissertation. The report on the division of labour is to be signed by the doctoral candidate and the main supervisor. It is possible to include the same co-authored publication in more than one dissertation, so the report on the division of labour must include information on whether the publication has been used or will be used in another dissertation. If the preliminary examiners are not proficient in Finnish, the report must be written in English.
3. Theoretical studies, i.e. Discipline-specific studies -module and Transferable skills -module, must be completed and registered in Sisu before the pre-examination process can be started. The instructions are on the web-page Registration of doctoral studies.
You can find the degree structure and required studies on the page Scope and structure of doctoral degrees. Note, choose your own doctoral programme from the site's degree programme menu.
4. The coordinating academic makes a proposal on the preliminary examiners and grading committee using the electronic Proposal for the preliminary examiners and grading committee form. Coordinating academic and doctoral student confirm the proposal via e-mail.
5. When needed, in addition to the above: when a doctoral thesis manuscript includes only one or two articles, the main supervisor of the thesis and the doctoral candidate give a joint written statement for the faculty council on scientific sufficiency of the manuscript.