The enrolment of foreign PhD students at the Faculty of Humanities has increased from almost none to a quarter of the students who started their studies on 1 September this year.<\/p>\n
This is according to Mette Thun\u00f8, Pro-Dean and Head of the Graduate School at the Faculty of Humanities.
\nChanges to the Faculty\u2019s recruitment strategy have improved international applicants prospects, she says.<\/p>\n
\u00bbA few years back, the vast majority of our PhD scholarship applicants in the humanities held MA degrees from our own faculty. Good applications were rare from other Danish universities, and foreign applicants were almost non-existent as our calls for applications were not translated into English,\u00ab Mette Thun\u00f8 explains. <\/p>\n
\u00bbI was afraid the quality of our future PhD students would suffer from increasing favouritism of our own MAs,\u00ab she says. <\/p>\n
To redress the balance, the Faculty of Humanities has created a Graduate School and advertised on international websites in English. <\/p>\n
Most importantly, the faculty now offers assistance in the Danish way of writing a research proposition, as part of its strategy to attract the best applicants regardless of where they have their MA degrees from.<\/p>\n
\u00bbNon-Danish students need some guidance in writing their five-page project description. If they are not familiar with the Danish style in which the research question is framed, the assessment committee will not pay much attention to an applicant,\u00ab says Mette.<\/p>\n
\u00bbStaff at our Ph.D. centre and potential supervisors have been instructed to pay attention to helping students with exactly this problem\u00ab, she adds.<\/p>\n
In the humanities, international Ph.D. applicants are interested in a broad field of disciplines, but especially Media and Area Studies – Asian and Middle Eastern Studies – attract much interest.<\/p>\n
According to Mette Thun\u00f8, other faculties such as Life Sciences and Science have a higher number and proportion of non-Danish PhD students. <\/p>\n
But with this year\u2019s steep increase in numbers, the Faculty of Humanities may catch up, at least in the proportion of PhD scholarships going to non-Danish applicants.<\/p>\n
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