Doctoral Studies

The Doctoral Studies Policy Group brings together LERU universities’ Vice-Rectors and senior management responsible for doctoral education. They discuss policies, trends and developments in doctoral education at their universities and at the EU policy level, and are responsible for developing LERU's opinions and papers on doctoral education. The topics they work on range from international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral dimensions of doctoral education to excellence in research and quality culture, professional development and careers for PhD holders, supervision, the European Research Area (ERA), open science, and more.

A major advice paper developed by this group is "LERU's view on holistic doctoral supervision".