Public defence, licentiate seminar, diploma and doctoral award ceremony

As early as possible

• Contact Linnaeus University Press (Lnu Press) to access the template for theses. Production and holding times can be found in the Checklist for Linnaeus University Dissertations

About 4 months before the public defence

• Review of the thesis where the work is assessed if it meets the requirements set out in the general study plan.
• Check the Ladok details
• Request permission from publishers to copy already published articles (applies to compilation theses containing published articles)

2 months before the defence 

Please note that your faculty may have special instructions for this and that you are responsible for finding out and following the instructions that apply at your faculty!

• Notification of public defence to the relevant faculty board via the faculty office. The notification must have been received no later than two months before the proposed day of public defence.
• The notification is made on the form Notification of public defence. Make sure your faculty can use a custom version of the document. Therefore, always check what applies to your faculty before downloading and filling out the document!

About 4 weeks before the public defence

• E-mail a summary of the thesis (max one A4 page; not the abstract) to the research communications officers via forsk-intern-kom@lnu.se. In this, describe your research briefly and in a popular science way; account for the most important results and how they can be applied in practice. The Communications Office evaluates the information and, if relevant, writes a draft of a news item that you will have the opportunity to approve. 

3 weeks before the public defence

Please note that your faculty may have special instructions for this and that you are responsible for finding out and following the instructions that apply at your faculty!

• The thesis is nailed at least three weeks before the public defence, in Kalmar or Växjö and electronically via registration in DiVA. Each institution is responsible for the arrangement of the nailing. The doctoral student registers his thesis in DiVA. Contact Lnu Press for full-text publishing print file in DiVA. For compilation theses, publish only the coat, link to the in-depth articles.
• Send the thesis to the opponent, chairman and grading committee
• 15 copies of the thesis to Lnu Press for exchange mailings via standard list (in Kalmar, the mailings are handled by Viveka Svensson, UB).

Day of public defence

• Defence of the thesis

After the public defence

Applications for diplomas are made as soon as all the requirements for a doctoral degree are met and registered in ladok.

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The fact that you have taken your doctoral degree is a prerequisite for receiving a promotion at Linnaeus University's academic festival. You must apply for a degree no later than November 30 to participate in next year's promotion. 

Here you can read more about how Academic Festival works.

As early as possible

• contact Linnaeus University Press (Lnu Press) to get the template for licentiate theses

3 weeks before the licentiate seminar

• register your thesis in DiVA if you have not already done so. We strongly recommend all authors to also publish the full text of the thesis in DiVA

Spikning means that you notify the public that your thesis is completed and will be defended at a public defence. The thesis will be physically nailed to the wall at the University Library and posted digitally in DiVA. It's your faculty that handles spikning. 

School of Economics and Management

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Faculty of Social Sciences

Faculty of Engineering

If you are employed at Linnaeus University, you have the opportunity to publish on the university's publishing house, Linnaeus University Press. The publisher publishes theses and licentiate theses.

Publishing thesis

The doctoral award ceremony (Swedish "promovering") takes place once you have taken your doctoral degree, at the Academic Ceremony, which takes place in January/February each year, on the first Friday after “Carl Day”. 

At the Academic Ceremony, we celebrate the university’s academic achievements through the conferral of new doctors and honorary doctors, the inauguration of new professors, and by handing out academic awards.

The invitation is being sent out in November each year. 

Academic celebration 

Before submitting your application for a diploma, the thesis and all courses must be completed and final reported in the University's data-based study documentation system Ladok. 

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