The PhD candidate
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons are available during term time for PhD defences.
The Doctoral Thesis
Admission to the PhD programme
The requirements that have to be met to gain admission to the PhD programme.
Setting a date for a defence
Several steps have to be undertaken to set a date for a defence.
Defence of the doctoral thesis
Admission to the defence
Programme for the ceremony: opposition and eulogy
To ensure proper running of the ceremony within the time allotted, it is important to keep in mind that this ceremony is about a scientific debate on the contents of the thesis in question.
Publishing your doctoral thesis
Publishing your doctoral thesis at Leiden University Press.