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2017: Readership Course

Survey of PhD-student working situation in Sweden

  • Pimkamol Mattsson
  • Jan Marcus Dahlström
  • Olaf Hartig
  • Urban Persson
Submitted
October 18, 2019
Published
2017-10-31

Abstract

Results from a survey about the working situation of PhD students in Sweden are presented. The focus is on questions concerning the working hours and vacation days. A brief review of related prior studies is presented and compared with our present findings. In summary, we find that PhD‐students work on average 43.5 hours per week, which is roughly 4 hours more than they are legally and socially obliged to do.