Student finance for third-cycle studies

If you have a doctoral studentship, you are considered to be both a student and an employee. If you have another form of financing, you are solely a student. 
As an employed doctoral student, you are covered by local and central agreements concerning terms of employment. 

If you are admitted to third-cycle studies and have a position with an employer other than Lund University, it is the employer who is responsible for employer-related matters. However, Lund University is responsible for education-related matters and the study environment when you are at the University as a third-cycle student.

Read more about terms of employment for doctoral students

Doctoral students financed by scholarships

As a doctoral student with a scholarship as student finance, you are not employed by Lund University and are therefore not entitled to contractual employment benefits. Doctoral students, regardless of the form of student finance, have access to the University’s Occupational Health Service. In some cases, a doctoral student with a scholarship is entitled to apply for a doctoral studentship when three years remain of the third-cycle studies.