The coordinators are the first point of contact for you as a PhD candidate, serving as the interface between the Graduate School, candidates, and supervisors. The supervisory committee is responsible for subject-matter support for candidates.

The office’s main role is coordinating administrative processes within the Graduate School. It draws up and reviews quality assurance measures, and provides the Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies with input as a basis for making decisions. Together with the coordinators, the office is the point of contact for PhD candidates, supervisors, institutes, and departments.

The Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies heads the Graduate School. She is also the confidant and person to contact in the event of conflict at the doctoral level.

In case of conflicts or problems with supervisors, you can contact the Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies.

Prof. Dr. Svenja Goltermann
Universität Zürich
Philosophische Fakultät
Dekanat
Rämistrasse 69
CH-8001 Zürich
+41 44 634 50 39
svenja.goltermann@phil.uzh.ch

A first point of contact may also be your PhD coordinator.

The Graduate School Executive Committee is a Permanent Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It comprises the Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies, who by virtue of her office chairs the committee, and eight additional members who are full and associate professors, who represent the PhD subjects in the various groups of subjects. In addition to this is one representative of each of the bodies.

Members of the Executive Committee (term of office 1 February 2021–31 January 2023)

Each subject board comprises between two and six subject representatives who are professors, plus at least one representative of the PhD candidates (the number of members representing PhD candidates must not be more than one-third of the number of professors on a particular subject board). 
Each subject board guides and advises the coordinators from a subject matter point of view; it supports coordinators with the development of subject-matter-related, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary events courses and events, and informs the organization unit it represents on subject-matter topics and all other matters dealt with by the specialist committee.

Members of the Subject Boards (Term of Office 1 February 2021–31 January 2023)

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate School is the organizational and administrative umbrella for all PhD subjects offered by the University of Zurich Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 

The Graduate School is there to promote junior scholars and support and advise PhD candidates and the faculty throughout a doctoral degree. It takes care of quality assurance and assumes the tasks associated with the doctoral degree.

The Graduate School comprises the Vice Dean of Studies responsible, the Executive Committee, the subject boards of the various groups of subjects, and nine PhD coordinators. The Vice Dean of Studies is supported by a coordination office. 

Reglement über die Organisation der Graduiertenschule der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich (ROGS) (PDF, 90 KB)