The NATED educational program

• All students will complete the formal educational program in approximately two years and thus the planning cycle takes place on a two year basis.
• The specialised part of NATED consists of compulsory courses and workshops organised within each thematic track.
• In addition, NATED conducts activities that move across tracks, with a special focus upon methodological issues. The leaders of each thematic track will co-ordinate common activities to ensure coherence.
• NATED arrange National PhD days once a year which include both inter-track and intra-track activities.
• NATED PhD students attend courses in the philosophy of science and research ethics at their PhD programme institution.
• NATED provides funding for PhD scholars to visit international institutions.
• NATED provides a virtual learning environment for communication and sharing knowledge (Fronter).

Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4
Course work: Theory and methodology	Course work: Theory and methodology
Planning and designing the study Draft of the first article	Collecting data Finishing the first article and draft of the second article	Finishing the second article and draft of the third article	Finishing the third article and the Introduction
Participation in international conference	Presentation in international conference	Stay as visiting scholar	Evaluation of the theses (quality control)
Writing workshops	Writing workshops	Writing workshops	Writing workshops
National PhD days	National PhD days	National PhD days	National PhD days

Writing of the PhD dissertation

• NATED promotes a culture for continuous writing and active feedback through sharing of ones work with the NATED community.

• The preferred convention for NATED is article-based dissertations, although monographs can be accepted.

• The preferred language is English, although occasional publications in Norwegian can be considered.

• As a main rule, the theses will consist of an introduction and three articles, which may be written with the supervisors or other colleagues. All PhD students will have supervision teams consisting of the main supervisor, a co-supervisor, and a dedicated international reader.

• International publishing will be strongly encouraged.

• NATED will support popular science publications to disseminate information about ongoing research at the national level.

Questions?

Questions regarding track educational activities can be directed to track management (see each track). Other questions regarding the NATED educational programme activities may be directed to senior research adviser Solveig Bauge Løland