Discipline-specific doctoral programme

Research topics in the discipline-specific doctoral programme are strongly based in your discipline. If you belong to this doctoral programme, your degree structure and doctoral path will follow that of your faculty:

Faculty of Art and Design >
Faculty of Education >
Faculty of Law >
Faculty of Social Sciences >

Research carried out in the thematic, multidisciplinary doctoral programme approaches research questions from the viewpoints of different academic disciplines.

The Arctic in a Changing World >

Both programmes welcome you to an academic community characterised by discourse on science and art.

Doctoral path

The discipline-specific doctoral programme gathers doctoral researchers with discipline-specific doctoral paths. The programme is the largest in volume and it has doctoral researchers from each Faculty. Research carried out is free in terms of topics and approaches, and does not depend on the university’s profile. The programme is also home to ULapland candidates studying in national networks of doctoral education.

The Graduate School organises thematic studies and Philosophy of research and research skills (20 ECTS).

Courses in the Philosophy of research and research skills are open to all doctoral researchers from all Faculties and both programmes. Even if you belong to the discipline-specific doctoral programme, you are welcome to the courses of the thematic doctoral programme The Arctic in a Changing World – if there are places available. Thus, cross-studying is allowed. Thematic courses may provide new viewpoints to your research.

You get to meet doctoral candidates with different backgrounds on our courses.

Telling it like it is

Auður H Ingólfsdóttir did her doctoral dissertation as a joint degree PhD candidate

Auður H Ingólfsdóttirʼs dissertation Climate Change and Security in the Arctic. Analysis of Norms and Values Shaping Climate Policy in Iceland was examined in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She carried out her doctoral research as a joint degree PhD candidate, in accordance with an agreement between the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland and the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Iceland.