Study and career support

Your supervisor or supervisors at the department will support you in your studies. Across the university’s academic areas and faculties, there are also a number of support services available for doctoral students and early-career researchers.

Supervisors at your department

Your supervisors at your department are primarily responsible for supporting you in various ways throughout your doctoral studies.

Mentoring programme

The Mentoring Programme for Young Researchers of Human Science brings together junior researchers with mentors. In the Mentoring Programme, mentors and mentees are in continuous contact and meet for a few scheduled meetings during the year according to a given structure.

Mentoring programme

Forum for doctoral students

The project Forum for Doctoral Students provides additional support for PhD students in the human science area. The purpose is to provide additional guidance so that more PhD students finish on time and feel good a long the way.

Forum for doctoral students

Stockholm University Young Faculty

Stockholm University Young Faculty (SU-YF) represents over 500 early-career researchers at the Faculty of Science working to promote the shared interests through activities that typically focus on career advice, funding opportunities, information regarding academia in Sweden, work-life balance, equity, and social events.

Stockholm University Young Faculty

Stockholm University student union

Stockholm University Student Union and its PhD Student Councils ensure that the university upholds your rights and supports you in exercising student influence because doctoral students are classified as both students and employees by the university.

Stockholm University Student Union

Rules and regulations

Stockholm University’s Rules and Regulations contains several centrally adopted governing documents related to doctoral education, such as the admissions regulations and the rules governing education and examination.

Rules and regulations

National and international resources

Du hittar mer information om national and internationsresources and support under My employment, Career and professional development.

Career and kompetensutvecling

Last updated: 2026-03-10

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