Teaching duties

Teaching duties for PhD candidates are decoupled from the PhD stipends. Available teaching-duty positions for PhD candidates will be announced about once a year and are awarded by application.

  • The main criteria when evaluating applicants are how the needs of the department match the competence of the applicants. Competence refers both to the subjects you can teach and the kind of teaching you can do (e.g. lab, colloquia). Teaching duties will normally give one year extension of your contract in exchange for one year of teaching, but shorter extensions may also be given.
  • One full year of teaching is 1690 hours, so your goal is about 1600 hours.
    • Your target for every semester should be 200-250 hours.
  • Procedure for teaching:
    • When you are awarded teaching duties, you will be asked what you are qualified to teach. This information can be updated if it changes during your contract.
    • Lists of PhD candidates with teaching duties will be sent to the course responsible, who may contact you directly about teaching.
    • Teaching duties can also be assigned directly by the study section. We try to make sure that everyone with teaching duties is teaching every semester if possible, so if you are not contacted, please tell the PhD advisor so we can help find something for you.

    • Decisions about which assignments you will take on are made by the heads of teaching and not by your PhD supervisor. Heads of teaching will do their best to take your preferences and availability (e.g. spending a semester abroad) into account.

  • Remember to keep track of your own hours:
    • The hours are reported by the professors in charge of each course after the semester’s end, but of course mistakes can be made, so make sure you know how much you have been teaching so we catch any mistakes.
    • Here is a handy spreadsheet (xlsx) which will help you keep track of your hours in an easy way, and total them up for you.
  • Regulations for the accounting of teaching duties for PhD-students at IBV.

  • If you would like more information about teaching duties you can contact the PhD coordinator at the department.

Published June 19, 2018 4:04 PM - Last modified Mar. 2, 2026 12:41 PM
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