Regulations, Committee and Admission

Règlement du Doctorat en administration publique

In your first year of working contract (Art. 6 of the doctorate regulation), you have to submit a thesis proposal and a training plan to the Research Committee (RC), which gives its opinion and forwards documents to the Dean’s office for approval and final admission. You will find both documents below.

IDHEAP-UNIL_PhD Enrol.form.docx  (1582 Ko)

Learning Agreement.docx  (25 Ko)

The learning agreement must be signed by the supervisor, the candidate and validated/signed by the vice-director, doctorate and research (prof Tobias.Mettler@unil.ch no later than 3 weeks before the Research Committee meeting.

We remind you that the candidate shall be matriculated at UNIL for the entire duration of their doctoral studies.The Admissions Office is responsible for formally determining the candidate’s admissibility.

UNIL PhD programm

subscription to be done on line avant le 31.07.2024 (autumn 24/25)
subscription to be done on line avant le 30.11.2024 (spring 25)

Research committee (RC) meetings 2024

Monday 04.11.24, 12:00 am (Sem. Spring 25)

Research committee (RC) meetings 2024

Tuesday 28.01.25, 12:00 am (Sem. Spring 25)

Thursday 15.05.25, 12:00 am (Sem. Autumn 25/26)

Tuesday 02.09.25, 12:00 am (Sem. Autumn 25/26)

Tuesday 04.11.25, 10:00 am (Sem. Spring 26)

Subscription form, Thesis project and Thesis' attestations (who should be signed only by the supervisor and PhD student) must be sent to sandra.felix@unil.ch a week before the RC's meeting (e.g. 21.01.25 for 28.01.25, ...)