PhD summary and photo

No later than 14 days after submitting your dissertation, you have to:

1. Decide on a title (which is different from the title of your PhD project) and a brief description of your PhD project (no longer than the example shown in the next section), as well as the other points shown in the example. Please use the template for project description in both Danish and English located in the menu to the right. 
    
2. If you can provide a relevant illustration (such as a photo, a drawing or a figure) from your research or your project, including captions and legends, you are more than welcome to send that as well. This increases your chances of being mentioned in the media.
    
3. The description of your PhD project must be submitted in both Danish and English.
    
4. Find a photo of yourself for use in the project announcement. The photo does not have to be a traditional passport photo – a more casual or descriptive photo would be better. A good example would be a photo showing you at work, for example bent over your books, doing fieldwork, teaching or something similar, or a photo of you in your spare time. Note: The photo should be in JPG format, at least 10 cm wide, with a resolution of at least 150 DPI (pixel/inch). Please send the photo separately as an attached JPG file and not inserted in the Word document or similar. 
    
5. Submit the Danish and English version of your project description (Word, RTF or TXT format) along with the photo of yourself to your PhD partner at the GSTS.
   
   Please indicate in the e-mail whether you would like us to send the description to selected local media, for example a paper in the town where you went to school or grew up. We will also share your project description with selected media outlets - such as Politiken, Århus Stiftstidende, and Aktuel Naturvidenskab - as well as feature it on relevant websites, including science.au.dk and your department’s homepage.
   
   If you would like us to forward it to local media, please provide the relevant e-mail address(es). It is a good idea to also send us a separate version or an additional comment in which you mention your association with the local area in question (e.g. “… [your name] is a student from xx Upper Secondary School …”).

• Create a heading that grabs the attention of the readers and at the same time gives an idea about your project and defence.
• You cannot fit it all into ten lines, so choose what is most important and simplify it.
• Think of your target group as the average newspaper reader, not someone from the same subject area or department.
• Avoid using specialist terms and technical jargon, both in the heading and everywhere else.
  You can use technical terms, but only if they are sufficiently common to appear in the science sections of newspapers.
• If possible, it is a good idea to give examples of how your research results have been used in practice.
• Ask your friends, family or partner – who do not work in your field – for feedback about your heading and the text.

Please see the GSTS front page, where you can find summeries of upcoming PhD defences.