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Midway and final seminar

To ensure sound progress and enhance the quality of research, all PhD students have two opportunities to receive feedback on the thesis part of their PhD work. One is mid-way review, (a former version of which was called mid-term seminar at the IIIEE)which should take place around half way through the PhD journey, and the second (and the last) one is final seminar, which should take approximately half a year before you plan to defend your thesis. 

Midway review: a formal discussant who could look at 1) the research outcomes made by the student by the time of the review, as well as 2) individual study plan with fresh eyes is to be invited (could be someone internal but should not have been involved in the research before). For more information, please consult Guidelines put together by LTH. Expected outcome of the midway reviews regarding the thesis work is to obtain valuable inputs on what can be done for the second half of the PhD period. In addition, in line with the requirement introduced at the end of 2019 at the LTH, the reviewer is asked to review the progress in relation to the learning outcomes and provide a short summary of an assessment. Conducting this review is a requirement for all the PhD students who are admitted to the IIIEE PhD studies as of 1 January 2019. The IIIEE has budget of 3000 SEK to cover the work of the reviewer.

Final seminar: a formal discussant is to be invited, with the expected outcome to obtain external view on whether the work is defendable in the coming few months, and receive inputs on what to be done to finalise the thesis. It is very important to time this right, so that the inputs received could be used for the finalization of PhD work. The IIIEE has budget of 5000 SEK to cover the work of the discussant.

Please ensure to plan these two seminars, and include them in your ISP.