Find below information of particular importance for your first days and weeks as a PhD student in WASP Graduate School.
- After you have been accepted as a PhD student in the WASP Graduate School and the Program Office has been informed, the Program Office will contact your supervisor to request information about you. The information provided by your supervisor is used to administer your participation in the WASP Graduate School.
- Once the Program Office has received your contact information from you and your supervisor, you will receive a welcome letter by email with instructions for the nearest future.
- After all necessary information has been received by the Program Office, a decision letter is sent to you, your supervisor, and other relevant parties such as the administration or economy representatives at your university.
We expect you to use an official email address in WASP. This could be your university email or a company email (for industrial PhDs). Note that you may need to use a personal email address in the beginning in case your university/company account is not yet set up.
As soon as you receive your official email, please inform the Program Office.
Once you are enrolled in the Graduate School, you will be invited to the WASP courses and activities. If you have not been invited to a course or activity that is given shortly after your starting date, the reason might be that the registration deadline has passed. If you would like to participate, we can always investigate whether it is possible or not, please contact the Program Office.
More information about the courses, schedules etcetera is found here.
All PhD students enrolled in the WASP Graduate School belong to a class or a batch.
PhD students enrolled after the 1st of April 2021
A new class is initiated every year after the Community building summer school in August. The class you belong to is your primary base for networking. Your fellow students will most likely be an important part of your future professional network.
PhD students enrolled before the 1st of April 2021
All PhD students enrolled in the WASP Graduate School before the 1st of April 2021 belong to a batch. There are different batches for AI and AS. Students in the same batch take mandatory WASP courses together and participate in WASP activities together. The batch you belong to is your primary base for networking. Your fellow students will most likely be an important part of your future professional network. Some PhD students who originally belonged to AI Batch 2 have changed curriculum and belong to Class 2021.
There are about 500 WASP PhD students spread over the involved universities, plus many postdocs and senior researchers.
To find local PhD students or other WASP-connected researchers, ask your supervisor, approach your senior university representative, or your local university representative in the PhD Student Council.
You can also have a look in the WASP Slack workspace where each location has a dedicated channel.
You will find a lot of useful information on our intranet. Especially this Handbook is made to help our PhD students nad others new to WASP.
To keep updated, we recommend that you always read the WASP Community Update newsletter (sent once a month by email). You are automatically added to the send list upon enrollment and removed when you leave WASP.
Personal contacts:
- For general questions about WASP, the Graduate School or other inquires, contact the WASP Program Office at: info@wasp-sweden.org.
- For questions about course meetings or other activities, please see who’s repsonsible for the specific occasion in the Calendar.
- You can also approach the PhD Student Council which is represented at all university sites.