PHD Programme – Royal Danish Academy
Royal Danish Academy
Copenhagen | Denmark
PHD Programme
- Design – Graphic Design; Industrial Design; Fashion Design; Textile Design…
- Other fields
3 years that are calculated from the date of enrolment through to the day you submit your thesis. The assessment process is not included in the three years.
You can enroll as either a PhD student for a full-time period of three years or as a PhD student part-time for up to a maximum of six years.
Public University
- PhD fully funded and with a stipend by the university
- PhD funded by the university but without a stipend
- Self-funded PhD – you must provide both tuition and your own maintenance
- PhD Fully or partially externally funded, with a stipend, through private or public foundations, scholarships, grants, one or more companies, or public institutions that you have to find on your own
- PhD Fully funded with a stipend by the University but you have both to work on the PHD and complete a number of teaching hours
It is important to know that many universities offer different funding options and public and private grants available to students who match the application criteria. Before applying, it is a good idea to check the institutions’ websites and inquire about the options available to you.
Many universities require applicants to pay fees such as matriculation or dissertation fees, even if they offer a fully funded programme with or without a stipend.
Fees:
See “Financing of the PhD project” at the following link: https://royaldanishacademy.com/en/HowtobecomePhD
Funding resources:
https://royaldanishacademy.com/en/vacancies
https://innovationsfonden.dk/en/p/industrial-researcher#accordion6232
| The PhD programme concludes with the submission, assessment and defence of the PhD thesis. The thesis must document the PhD student’s or the author’s ability to apply relevant scientific methods and to carry out research work meeting the international standards for PhD degrees within the subject area. The overall extent of the thesis must not exceed 250 standard pages of 2,400 characters (with spaces and notes, but without bibliography, catalogues, appendices, drawing material etc.). In special cases, the director of the PhD School may grant an exemption from this. The thesis can have the following forms: 1. A monograph. A thesis prepared personally by the author (the PhD student). 2. A plurality of elements or articles that are related in terms of contents and/or methodology, and in which the results achieved during the PhD programme are presented and possibly published/disseminated, either by the PhD student alone or together with others. 3. An article-based thesis should contain at least three articles as well as a compulsory introduction and conclusion, which present the thesis’ independent articles as a whole by placing the articles in a theoretical framework, presenting common literature, mentioning references etc. Any co-authors must state the extent of their contributions. Regardless of any publication, the thesis’ Assessment Committee is responsible for the final assessment of the article-based thesis’ quality. |
| Before anyone can start as a PhD student at the Royal Danish Academy, they need to go through an assessment process. Furthermore, if they are to be employed as a PhD fellow at the Royal Danish Academy, they will have to go through a separate employment process. When applying for enrolment, applicants may apply for approval of well documented, previously acquired competences (credit transfer), so that these can be included as a part of the research programme, thereby reducing the enrolment period. Applications for credit transfers are dealt with by the PhD Committee, which may establish detailed rules on this subject. It should be stressed that enrolment and employment are two different things. Enrolment is an administrative consequence of the academic decision about admitting the PhD student, i.e. it is not the same as employment. Similarly, conclusion of enrolment cannot be equated to dismissal. Only the educational conditions, i.e. enrolment and conclusion of enrolment, are regulated in the PhD Order and the present guidelines. It is therefore possible to be enrolled as a PhD student at the Royal Danish Academy, but employed outside the institution, but it is not possible to be employed as a PhD fellow at the Royal Danish Academy without being enrolled as a PhD student. PhD projects and candidates are assessed on the basis of a project description of max. five standard pages, excluding bibliography and time schedule for the project, the candidate’s diplomas and CV, a budget, and any portfolio. The head of the PhD School recommends to rector the appointing of an assessment committee consisting of two to three researchers at associate professor level or above, who will consider the quality of the project, the candidate, and whether this is the right candidate for the right project. Decisions about enrolment at the PhD School are made by the PhD Committee after consultation of the head of institute at the institute to which the PhD student is to be affiliated. The PhD student is enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy’s PhD School, normally affiliated with his/her principal supervisor’s institute. The supervisors are to ensure that the PhD student is affiliated with relevant foreign research environments. |
Admission to the PhD programme at the Royal Danish Academy must be based on the level of a Master’s degree.
Enrolment based on other Danish or foreign exams are assessed on the basis of information of such studies’ level and contents. If the applicant has non-Danish qualifications, these will have to be approved by the Danish Agency for Higher Education (www.ufm.dk/en) before enrolment can take place. If an application includes an assessment from the Danish Agency for Higher Education, the assessment must be cited in connection with the applicant’s foreign educational qualifications in relation to a specific Danish education. It must also be used to ascertain whether the applicant’s foreign educational qualifications are on a par with a Danish Master’s degree, cf. the Ministerial Order on the Assessment of Foreign Educational Qualifications etc. However, in addition to the above, the Royal Danish Academy may assess whether an applicant’s foreign educational qualifications in conjunction with concurrent or subsequent real competences correspond to the academic level of a Danish Master’s degree, and whether the applicant can therefore be admitted as a PhD student.
The Royal Danish Academy can offer a PhD programme within the fields in which research is currently being conducted, but the Royal Danish Academy alone decides who can be admitted and enrolled as a PhD student.
| Ditte Dahl – Special Consultant, Research Administration | Ditte.Dahl@kglakademi.dk |
| https://royaldanishacademy.com/en/phd-and-research-school |
Info for international students: https://royaldanishacademy.com/en/moving-denmark
Languages used within the program and for thesis writing and discussion: English or Danish.
The PhD thesis must be written in Danish or English. However, by agreement with supervisors and subject to the PhD Committee’s approval, it can be written in other languages. The thesis must contain abstracts in both Danish and English (a max. of one standard page each) and, if it is written in another language, also in this language. Furthermore, an abstract in Danish and English must be submitted with the PhD thesis, and perhaps an illustration.