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The PhD Programme
- Program outline
- Admission requirements
- Supervision
- Dissertation
- Pre-defence
- Defence
- Grant
- Other optional activities and services provided
- Prizes and Plaudits
Program outline
The Academy admits doctoral students for a full-time degree programme consisting of intensive mandatory and optional courses, a study period with partners abroad (optional, but strongly recommended), participation in seminars and international conferences, targeted discussions with peers and faculty, researching and writing of a dissertation.
The study programme has an overall length of 3 years, including the equivalent of half a years paid work at the Faculty of Economics, Copenhagen Business School or at Faculty of Social Science, Aalborg University respectively as research assistant or as assistant teacher or a combination of the two.
The programme falls in two stages.
Stage 1
During the first six months students will 1) take four mandatory courses arranged by the Academy, 2) present their Ph.D. proposal to their peers and 3) have intensive discussions with their supervisor.
Stage 2
Provided that the updated Ph.D. proposal and the progress report for the first stage is accepted by the Academy, the students are admitted to the second stage of the Ph.D. programme, which involves conducting the research for and writing a dissertation in English.
Students with no prior experience of studying abroad are particularly encouraged to spend up to six months at one of the Academy's foreign universities and business schools available through the formal exchange agreements of Copenhagen Business School or Aalborg University or to follow the specific requirements of ETIC - the European Doctoral Programme on the Economics of Technology and Institutional Change.
The student will write a dissertation within one of the Academy's three scientific themes A - C outlined in section 1.
Within each theme, activities will be organized to support and enhance the work: seminars with cutting edge researchers, international conference participation, local reading and discussion groups.
Students will during this stage be encouraged to write, submit, and present papers at international conferences individually, jointly, or together with members of the faculty.
A group of students with a common, specific theoretical, methodological or empirical interest might be provided with targeted courses and other activities organized by the Academy in cooperation with external bodies.
At the end of each semester students will file a progress report to be signed by the supervisor, discussed and submitted to the Ph.D. study board at Copenhagen Business School or the Faculty Board at Aalborg University respectively.
Admission requirements
The Academy's study programme is open to new students 15 January each year or by special arrangement.
Students may be considered for enrolment in the Academy if they have:
been accepted as Ph.D. student at Copenhagen Business School or Aalborg University or have fulfilled all formal requirements for enrolment (see specifications on the relevant institution's web-site). Applicants who have not obtained a scholarship from the institution of enrolment will be required to provide satisfactory documentation for the availability of sufficient resources to finance the three year full-time study programme. An annual fee of app. 90,000 DKK (app. 12,000 Euro) will be charged to cover the costs of supervision, course participation, including travel, overhead and assessment and printing of the final dissertation.
prepared a well-defined and articulated Ph.D. proposal within the research area of the Academy. The proposal must include an identification of a topic, a discussion of the topical and methodological issues of the field in which the Ph.D. will be pursued, and, where appropriate, an identification of the data resources to be used or developed
taken the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in time for the results to reach the Academy by the application deadline. The test must have been taken within the past five years. See further at http://www.gmat.org/.
taken the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in time for the results to reach the Academy by the application deadline or have completed satisfactorily one year at an English-speaking college or university (apply only to students whose native language is not English). See further: http://www.toefl.org/ and http://www.ets.org/toeflets.html.
applied before 1 October the previous year (see specifications on the Academy's web-site)
The Academy welcomes foreign Ph.D.-students who want to work on subjects and projects close to the core of the Academy's programme without following the full programme. The terms and tuition fees of such stays will be negotiated individually.
Supervision
The Academy offers all enrolled Ph.D. students supervision by one of the six full professors and the ten visiting professors or associate professors engaged in the Academy. Supervisors will meet regularly to discuss progress and issues of common concern.
Dissertation
The dissertation might consist of a monograph or a number of interrelated research papers. While working on the dissertation, students will meet regularly with their supervisors for guidance and to assess progress.
Pre-defence
Approximately three month before the expected time of completion of the dissertation a pre-defence is scheduled to be held within a month. The student will present and defend his or her work before a scientific committee with Academy or external faculty members. The pre-defence is open for all interested parties who are encouraged to identify weaknesses in the approach taken and question the conclusions that are drawn in the work. The response from the committee and suggestions from the audience at the pre-defence are to be reflected when completing the dissertation.
Defence
Upon completion, the student will defend the dissertation before a scientific evaluation committee. The evaluation committee is composed of one member from the Academy and two from outside the institution. The pre-defence is open for all interested parties who are encouraged to identify weaknesses in the approach taken and question the conclusions of the dissertation. If and when the evaluation committee acknowledges the defence as successfully completed, the dissertation will be published in the Ph.D. Dissertation Series of the Faculty of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, or placed on the Academy's web-site or both.
Grant
The author of an above average dissertation will be given a grant equal to three months' pay to write an article, summarising the dissertation or parts thereof, to be submitted to a recognised scientific journal.
Other optional activities and services provided
The DRUID Academy offers all enrolled Ph.D. students:
- access to a high-quality international network and research facilities at many foreign institutions
- access to the international conferences organised by the DRUID research network
- opportunity to present papers to be discussed by a distinguished international audience of experts at the annual Ph.D. Conference organised by the Academy
- access to the research seminars arranged by the Academy in Copenhagen or Aalborg
- access to interaction and discussions with visiting fellows at the Academy
- participation in courses advising students in the writing of papers to be submitted to a scientific journal
- participation in research projects at the Academy
- free access to the high quality research libraries at the Copenhagen Business School or Aalborg University, and their broad range of services
- priority access to the unique databases established or maintained by members of the Academy
Prizes and Plaudits
Students are encouraged to enter into competition for Danish or foreign prizes (i.e. the annual Tuborg-prize of 150,000 DKK or 20,000 EURO) and to engage in international contests. Support to cover the extra costs will be available on application.
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