PAND is a national network of local associations who represent PhD students at a university level. We are devoted to facilitating collaboration among the network’s member associations and providing a common voice for PhD students in Denmark, both nationally and internationally.
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#PleaseDontStealMyWork - Ghost Authoring at Danish Universities PAND – PhD Association Network of Denmark would like to examine the use and experiences concerning ’ghost authoring’ at universities. We do this in order to shed light on the current work...
How do we deal with job expectations? One of the attractive factors of pursuing a doctorate is the independence and control that PhD students can have over their own research. On the other hand, a PhD is still an...
How are we coping with the Pandemic? With so much happening in the world, it might seem like the Pandemic is ‘over’ as far as the news cycle is concerned - but even with the lifting of restrictions in...
Open Letter to the Ministry of Higher Education and Science and Universities Denmark On the 24th of February 2022, Ukraine came under siege from invading neighbouring forces breaking decades of peace on the European continent. The war in Ukraine...
How do we like our work? The fact that PhD life is tough is no secret - but what keeps us going despite all the difficulties? To put it simply, we love our work, and find it motivating and...
PhD students in Denmark - who are we, and how are we doing? PAND - the PhD Association Network of Denmark, together with DM, runs a PhD work life survey every second year. Last year, our latest survey has...
Do you know your rights as a PhD? The process of doing a PhD is full of questions - aside from your own research question, there are courses, teaching, readings, seminars... But what about your rights and conditions of...
Every third PhD-student in Denmark has considered dropping out In a new survey by DM (Dansk Magisterforening) and PAND (PhD Association Network of Denmark), data shows that PhD students’ well-being is seriously compromised. 56% have already experienced mental health...
Do you know your rights as a PhD? Whether you're just getting started or close to the finish, it is very common to have questions about all the different aspects of PhD life: How exactly do the teaching obligations...
Green Alsion Podcast We met up with with Katharina Rubahn, a member of the Green Alsion initiative, to discuss about PAND's Sustainability Working Group and the Green Lab Webinar we hosted last year. Green Alsion is a public site...
Statement on PhDs' help fund Last night, the government and several political parties agreed to a DKK 18 million fund for PhD students to finance extensions for delayed researchers. At the PhD Association Network of Denmark, although we welcome this development as a recognition...
For this webinar we were lucky to welcome Nikoline Borgermann, founder of Ava Sustain with many years of experience working in bioscience labs, to talk about practical initiatives to reduce the environmental footprint of your lab. As the ecological footprint...
March 22nd, 2019. Register for Communicate Your Research Event! Learn about the art of storytelling, get hands on experience on how to shoot a short video about your research for your social media accounts. WIN A PROFESSIONALLY SHOT VIDEO! Dinner...
Help us understand the working conditions of PhD students in Denmark by participating in our first survey, PhD students’ working conditions. For the first time in Denmark, PhD students are taking care of their working conditions and well-being. Join us!...
Last fall, PAND participated in the Danish national meeting of TER (temporarily employed researchers), a day full of talks and workshops revolving around the painful theme of academic precariat. The meetings' report had been published now and it grasps some...
It was a wonderful year for PhD Association Network of Denmark! In 2018, we've cemented the newly started national PhD network, managing to bring together PhD students from 7 universities in Denmark: PAND: Uniting and supporting Denmark's PhD students Our...
UCAPS (University of Copenhagen Association of PhD Students), PAND (PhD Association Network of Denmark) and Studenterhuset are welcoming all PhD students in Copenhagen for a fun volunteering and community fair. Have you just started your PhD and would like...
PAND is uniting PhD students voices on a pressing problematic, namely the lack of remuneration during the extension of the research period. Extension can often be caused by factors external to the researcher's control. Examples of research-related delays and subsequent academically...
PAND is back from holidays refreshed and energized! Before the tropical Danish summer got us totally distracted, the PAND board met for a 2-day strategy development retreat in a cozy house in the centre of Copenhagen. PAND board members from...
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT RETREAT PAND is back from holidays refreshed and energised! Before the tropical Danish summer got us totally distracted, the PAND board met for a 2-day strategy development retreat in a cosy house in the centre of Copenhagen. PAND...
OK18 - Potential Conflict Over Collective Agreements - Click here for flyer on OK18 Collective agreements for public sector employees expire by the end of March 2018. Today at a press conference, the Minister of Public Innovation (Sophie Løhde) stated that...
Talk Like Ted Yesterday, we had the pleasure to welcome PhD students to the first PAND event, hosted at University of Copenhagen. Around 80 enthusiastic PhD students joined our ''Talk like TED'' workshop, all over from KU, DTU and AU....
Coffee Truck Tour From February 19 to February 22 we will be driving a coffee truck around all the universities in Denmark, to say hello and strengthen PhD students with some of that black magic liquid called coffee! Come grab...
PAND Strategy and Development Workshop On the lakeside of Furesø, in the first weekend of December, the PAND board of management came together from across Denmark, to review our motivations and strategy for the coming year. Working and brainstorming...
Welcome to PAUSD From the momentum of PANDs establishment, Ph.D. students at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) organized themselves to form the Ph.D. association of SDU, PAUSD. Together with top-down support from PAND and the university administration, PAUSD...
Inaugural assembly On the 23rd of January 2017 PANDs inaugural assembly took place at Syddansk Universitet in Odense. PhD students from 8 out of the 10 PhD awarding institutions in Denmark attended to establish the national association. The meeting kicked...