In the council, we represent your voice as a PhD towards the department management, the PhD school, and other educational entities when needed. Also, we work on spreading useful information that matters to you, and we organizing social activities and seminars of your interest. We are elected on a yearly basis by all PhDs in the department. If you are interested to be part of us, reach out to us phdcouncil.cse@chalmers.se . If you are interested in knowing more about the council, check the following document.

To find out what your interests and issues are we sometimes send out questionnaires. It is very important that you as a PhD student replies to these, since it helps us voice your opinion and know what type of activities the PhD students are interested in participating.

Each year we write an action plan, you might have heard the word "Verksamhetsplan" or "VP" on the departmental level, for the things we want to achieve during the year. You can find our priorities for this year linked in the PhD council module.

The PhD councils members get departmental duty hours for their work. (it is decided on a per year basis, around 50h, but can be increased if deemed necessary for specific tasks or projects that year.)

Picture from a study trip to Onsala Space Observatory in March 2023, arranged by the PhD council.