ADMISSION

PhD students of the University of Lodz Doctoral School of Social Sciences receive a scholarship of at least:

• 3150 PLN (approx. 720 EURO) gross per month (first and second year of study - before mid-term evaluation), and
• 4500 PLN (approx. 1030 EURO) gross per month (third and fourth year of study - after mid-term evaluation).

Under the guidance of your potential supervisor, prepare a concept for your doctoral dissertation, which is one of the required documents in the recruitment process.

If the candidate has obtained from the supervisor (an academic employee of the University of Lodz) a consent to take him/her under supervision, he/she submits a statement of the potential supervisor on his/her willingness to take on the supervision (sample available at step 4).

If the candidate has not obtained such a consent, he/she submits an application for appointing a selected person who has the right to act as a supervisor as a supervisor of his/her doctoral dissertation (template available at step 4).

Information about competitions for doctoral students within NCN grants (together with the research topics) is available at http://ncn.gov.pl

 

List of supervisors and topics of PhD seminars in the academic year 2024/2025 for each discipline:

Enrollment/Registration - Electronic registration for studies is possible between 4 June - 13 June 2024

Remember to print out the application form from the Electronic Recruitment System!

 

Go to the Electronic Recruitment System

 

Prepare legible scans or photos of all the paper documentation you are to submit as part of the admission process, and attach them by uploading them to the IRK system within the time frame allowed in the Admission Timetable for submission of your documents. Each scan file should include the applicant's full name and an indication of the kind of the document that was scanned, according to the following scheme: Forename_Surname_Heading of scanned document

For an applicant who has completed his/her Master's degree studies abroad, the degree document must be legalised or apostilled, and it should state the right to apply for the award of a doctoral degree in the country whose higher education system includes the institution which has awarded it. In the case of a diploma issued in a language other than Polish or English, a translation into one of these languages must also be submitted. You are to submit a statement with obligation to provide a sworn translation of the aforementioned diploma into Polish which must be ready within the time limit specified in the statement (Annex 2 to the Recruitment Rules).

During the deadline period for delivery of original documents (6 June - 14 June 2024), the international applicant should send to: office.sdns@uni.lodz.pl an application for delivery of original documents upon arrival in Poland, before the day of signing the oath (sample application below)

Please remember to sign all your documents (incl. your application, dissertation concept, questionnaire)

English language test date: 21 June 2024

If you are interested in sample language tests, please send an email requesting the tests through the public information mode to office.sdns@uni.lodz.pl.

During the interview the following are assessed:

a) Presentation of the dissertation concept, including:

1) demonstrating the originality of the scientific problem presented in the concept

2) demonstration of the research contribution to the development of the lead and additional discipline(s), in the case of an Industrial PhD programme the practical utility of the solutions

3) clarity of concept presentation

4) ability to justify the chosen methodology

b) knowledge of research methods used in scienificwork in the discipline

c) knowledge of the literature on the subjects to be dealt with in the candidate's research

d) knowledge of specialist terminology, ability to compose a speech, communicativeness, interaction during discussion

Total: 25 points

Each member of the recruitment committee will assess independently with 25 points. The final amount of points awarded to a candidate shall be the arithmetic mean of the points awarded by the members of the committee. Presentation of the concept in the form of a multimedia presentation is not accepted.

Interviews will be held from 3 July to 8 July 2024.

The candidate will be informed of the interview date via email.

Information on acceptance to the studies is visible in the Electronic Registration System on the candidate's account, and the Recruitment Committee's decision on non-acceptance is sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

International office

ul. Matejki 21/23  
90-237 Lodz 
room 114

P. +48 42 635 62 42  / tel. +48 601 083 029
E. office.sdns@uni.lodz.pl