Supervisors – I year

First year doctoral students should submit an application to the Director for the appointment of a supervisor together with a declaration by the planned supervisor, confirming their agreement to undertake the duties of a supervisor [FORM]. This request may include appointment of an additional supervisor [FORM] or an assistant supervisor [FORM].

If you plan to request the appointment of a second dissertation supervisor or an assistant dissertation supervisor, a justification shall be enclosed. The request should be supported by your supervisor.

On the basis of the submitted requests the Council of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences shall, not later than three months after the date on which the doctoral student commences their education, appoint a supervisor or supervisors.

Notice! The dissertation supervisor can be changed and the assistant/second dissertation supervisor may be appointed or changed at the request of the doctoral student also during the course of study. Please consult the Rules and Regulations of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences [LINK].

You should submit the applications until 3.11.2022. The document should be signed, scanned and sent via email to the email address of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences (phd.ns@uw.edu.pl).

Notice! If you apply for appointing a person from outside the University (we remind you that a person from outside the University can be appointed only as a second or assistant supervisor) – it is obligatory to enclose a filled personal questionnaire. The data is necessary in order to enter the person’s data into the POLon system.

General information on supervisors:

The dissertation supervisor may be a person with a degree of doktor habilitowany or the title of professor, who is distinguished by recognised national or international scientific achievements, in particular within five years before the appointment as a supervisor managed research projects, published the results of own research in peer-reviewed journals and scientific publications of recognised renown or cooperated with representatives of other scientific centres.

A dissertation supervisor cannot become a person who remains the designated supervisor for more than five doctoral students or applicants for the doctoral degree. The Director, with the agreement of the School Council, may in exceptional and justifiable cases increase this limit by no more than three.

The function of assistant supervisor may be performed by a person holding a doctoral degree.

The scientific supervision of the preparation of a doctoral dissertation shall be exercised by the supervisor or supervisors or by the supervisor and assistant supervisor, which means that a doctoral student may not have both a second supervisor and an assistant supervisor appointed at the same time. It is also not possible to have more than one assistant supervisor.