How - getting into postgraduate education

• Postgraduate studies since 1971 (licentiates and doctoral degrees)
• Currently 1-2 licentiates in social sciences and 2-3 doctors each year
• Memberships: Doctoral School of Changing Communications (MUUVI); Tampere Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering (TISE)

Main subjects of postgraduate studies:

• Information retrieval (FIRE)
• Information seeking (REGIS)
• Information and records management (REGIM)
• Information policy and library history

The application process

• Applicants for research should first contact the professor of a discipline or the mentor to formulate a research plan. Guide for postgraduate (doctoral) studies 2003-2005
• An application form is available from the Office of The Faculty of Information Sciences and as a pdf document on the Internet.
• Degree certificate of main subject required
• A proposal for a studies or for a research plan
• The curriculum is formulated in with advice from the mentor of the research.

Links:

• Metodix-learning environment for researchers, students, teachers and users in working life. The environment contains a comprehensive presentation of methods of a research in a phase-by-phase model.
• Tampere University Library pages include template outlines for dissertations and instructions on how to publish a dissertation (In Finnish; ask for more instructions).
• Information skills (Tampere University library Learning Resources Centre)
• Granting the library permission for publishing a licentiate paper on the Internet (Tampere University library)

Funding for studies

• Scholarships within the University of Tampere
• KELA The Social Insurance Institution of Finland
• Information about scholarships and about formulating an application for a scholarship From the pages of the Finnish Student Union
• Cimo Links to international postgraduate studies
• The Academy of Finland more information on research work and researcher's education
• Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers Information for example about income and salaries
• Grants of The Finnish Cultural Foundation (Suomen kulttuurirahasto)