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Progress report PhD education
 
 All PhD candidates at UiB are required to report annually on the progress of their PhD project. 
 
 Reporting deadline is 1 November.
 
Forms for progress report are distributed by the Division of Research and Innovation at UiB. Your filled-in report will be used by the leadership and administration at your unit (department, faculty and/or research school) to get an overview on the progress of your PhD education. Aggregate data from the reports will be utilized to get an overview on the status of PhD candidates as a group at your unit, and is an important tool in our system of quality assurance.
 
The submitted information will be reviewed by a small group of people within the administration and leadership of your unit. Typically, this includes the PhD coordinator at your department or faculty, and the academic head of the PhD education at your department or research school. If you wish to see a list of staff members who can access progress reports, please contact the administrative PhD coordinator at your department or faculty.
 
Candidate and supervisor must answer the questions independent of each other. If your supervisor is also a leader with technical access to the report, we urge your supervisor to let someone else review your completed report. 
 
 Your progress report will be examined after the reporting period is over and the data is sorted. 
 
 The progress report should focus on the progress in the research project and the training component. Should you wish to share sensitive information related to your progress like sick leave or the similar, we recommend that you contact relevant staff at either the department or the faculty. You may not submit sensitive information in this form. If you are a PhD research fellow employed at UiB you must submit notes of sick leaves through UiBs Self service portal. If you are employed elsewhere and your financial period has been prolonged due to leave, you must submit information regarding this to the PhD coordinator at your department or faculty.
 
 If you wish to change your answers you can return to the progress report form at any time by following the link you have received in the e-mail. When the submission deadline has passed, it will no longer be possible to make changes to your answers.
 
 The information you have submitted in the progress report will be deleted after you complete your PhD.

Applies to all
This applies to my situation:
(1)    m I am registered as an active PhD candidate and will submit my progress report
(2)    m I am registered as an active PhD candidate, but at the moment I am on a long term (more than 2 months) sick leave, parental leave or other granted leave and will submit my progress report
(3)    m I am registered as an active PhD candidate, but at the moment I am on a long term (more than 2 months) sick leave, parental leave or other granted leave and will NOT submit my progress report
(4)    m I have finalized my thesis/project and do NOT wish to submit a progress report
(5)    m I have received a decision on rejection, I plan to resubmit thesis/project and will submit my progress report

Applies to all
Are you within your period of PhD funding?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

Now that the period of PhD funding has ended, how much do you work with your doctoral project?
Estimate in percentage of a full time position
You may estimate the percentage based on a normal working week of 37,5 hours. 9 hours of work is equal to 24%.
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Applies to all
Since last year, have there been any changes in the PhD research project that have consequences for your progress?
(1)    m No
(2)    m Yes

In what area(s) have changes occurred that may have an impact on the progress of your PhD education?
(1)    q Project description/design/methodology
(4)    q Supervision
(2)    q Infrastructure (physical working situation, equipment, animal trials)
(7)    q Training component
(3)    q Financing
(6)    q Other, non-scientific areas

Applies to all
When do you plan to submit your PhD thesis or your application for the assessment of your PhD project?
Year: 
Month:

Applies to all
Do you plan to submit when your PhD funding is over?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No, I plan to submit before my PhD funding is over
(3)    m No, I’m delayed due to other causes than statutory leave of absence

Applies to all
In the student database FS we have registered that you are affiliated with the following research school(s):
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Is this information correct? 
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No, I am affiliated with another research school
(3)    m No, I am affiliated with more than one research school, and the information above is not correct

Applies to all
Which research school are you affiliated with?
-No affiliation with a research school_
AFINO Research School
Bergen Biomedical Research School
Bergen Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical research
Bergen Research School in Inflammation (BRSI)
Bergen Summer Research School
CCBIO Research School for Cancer Studies
Graduate School in Human Interaction and Growth (GHIG)
Graduate School of Clinical and Developmental Psychology (CDP)
Grieg Research School in Interdisciplinary Music Studies
International Graduate School in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (IGSIN)
IRTG - Development and Application of Intelligent Detectors
Nasjonal forskerskole i allmennmedisin (NAFALM
Nasjonal forskerskole i kjønnsforskningNasjonal forskerskole i lærerutdanning
National graduate school in Mathematics and Science Education (MaScE)
National Research School in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Systems Biology (NORBIS)
National Research Scool in Population Based Epidemology (EPINOR)
Neuro-SysMed Research School in Translational Neuroscience
Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology: Dialogues with the past
Nordic Graduate School of Educational Research (NORED)
Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA)
Norwegian Artistic Research SchoolNorwegian Graduate School in Biocatalysis (BioCat)
Norwegian PhD School of Heart Research (NORHEART)
Norwegian PhD School of Pharmacy
Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH)
Norwegian Researcher School in Geography
Norwegian Researcher Training School: Text-Image-Sound-Space (TBLR)
Norwegian Research School in History
Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience (NRSN)
Norwegian Research School for Dynamics and Evolution of Earth and Planets (DEEP)
Norwegian Research School of Global Health
Norwegian Research School on Hydrogen and Hydrogen-based Fuels (HySchool)
Petroleum Research School of Norway
Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research
Research School at IKO
Research School in Biosystematics
Research School in Linguistics and Philology
Research School in Information and Communication Technology
Research School in Literature, Culture and Aesthetics
Research School in Public Health and Primary Health Care
Research School for International Health
Research School for Training the Next Generation of Micro- and Nanotechnology Researchers in Norway (TNNN)
Research School of Computer and Information Security (COINS)
Research School on Changing Climates in the Coupled Earth System (CHESS)
Research School Religion Values Society (RVS)
-Other research school-

You have answered that you are connected to another research school. Please fill in the name and institution here:
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You have answered that the information on your registered research schools is not correct, and you would like to inform about the following:
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Does not apply to artistic research
Are you writing your thesis as a monograph or as a compilation of articles?
(1)    m Monograph
(2)    m Articles

Does only apply to LAW
What is the preliminary title of your PhD thesis?
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Does not apply to artistic research
During your PhD education how many articles have you so far submitted for publication or published with peer review?
	0	1	2	3	4 or more	
Number
	(0)    m	(1)    m	(2)    m	(3)    m	(4)    m	

Does not apply to artistic research
Since your last progress report, how many conferences with relevance to your research project have you participated in? And how have you contributed (paper/poster)?
	0	1	2	3 or more	0	1	2	3 or more	
International conference/seminar
	(0)    m	(1)    m	(2)    m	(3)    m	(0)    m	(1)    m	(2)    m	(3)    m	
National conference/seminar
	(0)    m	(1)    m	(2)    m	(3)    m	(0)    m	(1)    m	(2)    m	(3)    m	
Local seminar
	(0)    m	(1)    m	(2)    m	(3)    m	(0)    m	(1)    m	(2)    m	(3)    m	

Applies to all
Have you had a longer research stay at a foreign institution since last reporting (three months or longer)?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

Please state dates of stay, institution and country.
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Applies to all
Do you have an extra year of other career promoting work (duty work) as a part of your employment contract at UiB, in addition to your PhD education?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No
(3)    m No, but I am involved in similar work tasks

To what extent have you carried out other career promoting work (duty work) since your last progress report (last 12 months). You can estimate the dedicated work in hours.
One man-year at UiB, 100% position, is 1695 hours.
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What kind of other career promoting work (duty work) have you been doing since your last progress report?
You may tick off more than one alternative
(1)    q Teaching
(2)    q Research administration
(3)    q Laboratory - and technical work
(4)    q Dissemination of project results
(5)    q Other

What kind of teaching have you been responsible for?

You may tick off more than one alternative.
(1)    q Lectures
(2)    q Seminar teaching
(3)    q Tutoring of students
(4)    q Other

Would you say the arrangement concerning other career promoting work (duty work) is well organized by the UiB?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No
(3)    m I do not know

Applies to all
What is your employment status?
(1)    m I am employed as a PhD research fellow at UiB 
(2)    m I am employed with PhD financing outside of UiB 
(3)    m My period of PhD financing has passed

Applies to PhD research fellows at UiB
Since the last round of progress reporting, did you take part in an employment dialogue?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

Applies to those with financing outside of UiB or where the financing has passed
Since the last round of progress reporting, have you been offered a follow-up dialogue with a leader at your UiB unit?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

Did you carry out the follow-up dialogue?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

Applies to all
Will you participate in a midway evaluation during the autumn this year?
(1)    m Yes, and I will not submit a 1/2 page description on the progress of my doctoral training
(2)    m No

Does not apply to artistic research
Account for the progress of your research project since last reporting.

The following points may be covered in your presentation if they apply to your PhD training:
- progress and results in your research project
- progress in your training component 
- any stays abroad/international visits
- any experiments and any results of these
- any field work and how this contributes to the work with the thesis 
- any publications published
- any changes in infrastructure or financial terms

The progress report should focus on your scientific progress. Should you however have information which may be regarded as sensitive, such as leave of absence in relation to sickness, this should NOT be included here. If you wish to inform you department or faculty regarding such causes, then this should be communicated in the right channels. Such information might be important in order to ensure your rights as a PhD candidate.

We recommend that you write a report in a document that you save to your PC and then copy it into this open text field. Preformatted text (e.g. from Word) will appear as plain text with no formatting when it is pasted into the text field in the survey. The text should be no more than half an A4-page.
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Does only apply to artistic research
Account for the progress of your research project since last reporting (academic focus, artistic result, tools/techniques and other):

- How have you worked with the documentation of the reflection during the period?
- How have you worked with other documentation during the period?
- State any external presentations, exhibitions, activities in networks etc. during the period.   
- How has the international foundation been taken care of during the period?
- In addition, please describe the challenges to your artistic research in the coming period.

The progress report should focus on your scientific progress. Should you however have information which may be regarded as sensitive, such as leave of absence in relation to sickness, this should NOT be included here. If you wish to inform you faculty regarding such causes, then this should be communicated in the right channels. Such information might be important in order to ensure your rights as a PhD candidate.

We recommend that you write a report in a document that you save to your PC and then copy it into this open text field. Preformatted text (e.g. from Word) will appear as plain text with no formatting when it is pasted into the text field in the survey. The text should be no more than half a page.
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Applies to all
Have you completed the training component (30 credits)?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

Applies to all
How satisfied are you with the progress in your PhD education
(5)    m Very satisfied
(4)    m Satisfied
(3)    m Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
(1)    m Dissatisfied
(6)    m Very dissatisfied

Supervision
In the following, you will be asked several questions about supervision and your relationship to your supervisor(s). We request you to provide feedback on the supervision even if you have more than one supervisor. We do not want feedback on how individual supervisors work, but on your overall experience of the supervision situation.
 
 If you wish to discuss your supervisor situation, you can contact the PhD coordinator in your own department and/or at the faculty.

Applies to all
In the student database FS we have registered that you have the following supervisors:
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Is this information correct? 
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

We ask you to provide additional information about your supervisors here:
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Applies to all:
How satisfied are you with the frequency of the contact with your supervisor(s)?
(6)    m Very satisfied
(5)    m Satisfied
(4)    m Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
(3)    m Dissatisfied
(2)    m Very dissatisfied

Applies to all:
How often do you meet with your supervisor(s) in general?
(1)    m Every week or more frequently
(2)    m Approximately every second week
(3)    m Approximately every month
(4)    m More rarely than every month

Applies to all:
To what extent do you agree/disagree that you receive feedback from your supervisor(s) on your drafts/manuscripts in reasonable time?
(5)    m I completely agree
(4)    m I agree
(3)    m I neither agree nor disagree
(2)    m I disagree
(1)    m I strongly disagree

Applies to all:
Overall, how satisfied are you with the academic part of the supervision?
(6)    m Very satisfied
(5)    m Satisfied
(4)    m Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
(3)    m Dissatisfied
(2)    m Very dissatisfied

Does only apply to artistic research
Are you approaching the final assessment process?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

Have you submitted your application for the final assessment, and in case when?
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Outline the schedule for the final assessment process including submission of reflection, presentation of artistic results and public defence:
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Would you like a meeting with the PhD coordinator or the person responsible for the PhD education, after the period of reporting is over?
(1)    m Yes
(2)    m No

If you need to speak with someone urgently, we urge you to contact your PhD coordinator or the academic staff member responsible for the PhD education at your unit, directly. Here is an overview of the PhD coordinators at the faculties: The faculty's PhD coordinators | Employee Pages | UiB 

Thank you for your report!
 
 You have now submitted the progress report. If you would like to change your answers, you can access the survey by clicking the link sent to you in the e-mail about the progress report. You can make changes as many times as you wish until the submission deadline, 1 November. After the deadline the survey will be closed and your answers will be final.
 
 Your progress report will be dealt with by the unit to which you are affiliated, after the period of reporting is over. Should your progress be delayed, then this will be followed up by your department in order to improve your progress and enable you to complete your PhD education.
 
 Should you wish to have an discussion regarding your doctoral education, you can contact your PhD coordinator at either the department or the faculty.
 
 Best of luck with your project!