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Tampere University Student's Handbook

Doctoral Programme of Humans and Technologies (DPHAT)

Tampere University

From August 1, 2021 on, the name of the Doctoral Programme in Interactive Technology was changed to the Doctoral Programme of Humans and Technologies (DPHAT) in connection with the reorganization of the doctoral programmes in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences.

The research fields of the Doctoral Programme of Humans and Technologies are the following:
•    Human-Technology Interaction), 
•    Information Studies and
•    Games and Gamification.

 

Contact information:

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences

Pinni B Building

Kanslerinrinne 1

FI-33014 Tampere University

 

Head of the Doctoral Programme: Professor Kaisa Väänänen

Study Coordinator: Sari Raudasoja

Education Assistant: Petra Lappalainen

 

Planning group for the Doctoral Programme of Humans and Technologies (DPHAT)

Kaisa Väänänen, Chair
Veikko Surakka 
Tuomas Harviainen 
Juho Hamari 
Markku Turunen 
Roope Raisamo 
Thomas Olsson 
Sanna Kumpulainen
Johanna Virkki
Oguz Buruk 

Doctoral student representative: Saara Ala-Luopa

 

Steering Group for Doctoral Education

Chair: Vice Dean Erja Sipilä

 

The Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences

Pekka Verho

The Dean for example appoints pre-examiners, grants permissions for public defence, appoints staff for the defence (Custos, Opponent, Evaluation board), evaluates Licentiate Theses, approves the changes of supervisors, admits new students, signs degree certificates.

 

Faculty Council of the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Science

The Faculty Council meetings are on Wednesdays at 13 o’clock. Material for the meeting must be submitted to the presenting official at least one week before the date of the meeting.

Tasks of the Faculty Council are for example grading of doctoral dissertations, the approval of curriculum and course offerings of the doctoral programme, the approval of selection criteria for new doctoral students, the handling of appeals.

Presenting official at the Faculty Council: Study Coordinator Sari Raudasoja

Dates of the Faculty Council meetings

 

Published: 17.6.2019
Updated: 5.4.2023