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Sydney Peterson Has The Perfect Mentor For Dealing With The Work-Life Balance Of Skiing And Pursuing A PhD:

How Sydney Peterson Balances Paralympic Skiing and a PhD in Neuroscience The cross-country skier competes for Team USA, all while researching rare genetic diseases at the University of Utah.

Defend your rights!

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Your Membership | Lunds doktorandkår rights! We ensure that doctoral student voices are heard at every level so that you can influence the quality of your education.

What's the individual study plan (ISP) & why should you care?
This is a longer post because you won’t get this information anywhere else. Save it for a rainy day so that you are prepared to fight for your rights. The short takeaway message is simple: If someone messes with your ISP, don't wait! Get legal help right away!

The Higher Education Ordinance (chap. 6, section 29) states that an individual study plan (ISP) shall be drawn up for each doctoral student. The ISP describes the scientific project, the courses and other learning activities planned, and how the student, within the research field in question and on the basis of the specific project, is to attain the intended learning outcomes of doctoral education. The ISP remains as a roadmap for the doctoral student and his/her supervisors.

The individual study plan (ISP) is to be drawn up in consultation with the admitted doctoral student (that is you) and thus may not be established and approved until after the admission decision.
The ISP is written by you in consultation with your supervisor. It should be used to describe:
a) how you plan to achieve your doctoral project, as well as other activities you plan to do including teaching
b) what resources your Department commits to provide to you to help you succeed in your project, including supervision resources, so you can reach the outcomes planned in the ISP for your doctoral education.
c) on-going updates on your teaching/supervision duties, administrative duties, union duties, external research, sick leave, military leave, parental leave, or any other delays due to unforeseen circumstances such as pandemic &/or health emergencies
d) all other resources that are available, including your office, office equipment, & computer
e) all other work environment rights in place to ensure that there will be no mobbing or harassment, including details guaranteeing that there both is an effective doctoral student safety officer AND an effective independent doctoral student ombudsmän in place.

You NEED to care about your ISP because it is meant to protect your interests throughout your doctoral studies at Lund University - but remember that your legal position is very weak should there be a conflict with the professors collegium. Even your employee union will probably not want to be involved in a conflict with their professorial members and a doctoral student.
A well-considered ISP reduces the risk of conflicts with your supervisors too since it helps you to work with your supervisor to build a clearer understanding of what each of you should expect from each other, and what you both need the Department to provide to you for your PhD project. It's not just for your project, though. It is also a tool to help you plan out your overall doctoral education experience, including any teaching or service activities you know of in advance, as well as any pre-planned leaves or other activities. It is also to remind the university of their obligations to you as a student.

>> OBS! The ISP you initially create ** should not ** be randomly changed every year! Updates should not be initiated by anyone other than yourself! You are guaranteed academic freedom! It has been argued that the ISP is treated as a kind of signed contract and its contents have been challenged in various courts and legal bodies much the same way as a contract, so don't sign any ISP when you do not agree with its content!

Defend your rights!

Do you want to defend and promote doctoral student rights while meeting other like-minded, justice-oriented doctoral students who care about defending academic freedom and the right to a safe work environment?

Become a member and get involved!

Join LDK! We fight for your rights!

https://www.lundsdoctoralstudentunion.com/your-membership

Welcome to Lund University where students are dragged head-first down stairs after being invited to attend a meeting with management representing the Rektor's office! Deputy Vice-Chancellor Lena Eskilsson and Pro Vice-Chancellor Jimmie Kristensson were at the meeting representing the Rektor's office after Rektor Erik Renström claimed he was too sick to attend the meeting. In other words, the ultimate responsibility for this shameful violence against peaceful students rests entirely at the feet of the Rektor's (aka Vice Chancellor's) office co-led by Rektor Erik Renström and University Director Susanne Kristensson.

In a related matter, the Rektor's office is also ultimately responsible for allowing the deleting of an emailed letter sent by another concerned student to state employed University staff after the violent event, to express their concerns. This email tampering shows an authoritarian streak in this Rektor's office that has been used before (as documented on this page in previous reports). It also shows how out of control and tone deaf this Rektor's office is to the harm they are causing their students.

Both the physical abuse and the electronic censorship are the latest incidents at the behest of Renström and Kristensson to shut down dialogue with Lund University students using 'Master Suppression' style cover up tactics, including smearing students in local media –– which is another favourite tactic of the Rektor's office that was reported on this page previously in the case regarding the abuse of an early career researcher in the Faculty of Medicine when Renström was Dean at that faculty.

In addition, this most recent public incident is yet another blow to academic freedom on campus, particularly the right to participate in political discussion as described in UNESCO's binding statutes to which Sweden is a signatory (as described in earlier reports on this page).

The short story is that peaceful students were lured into an office for a meeting, after the management refused to meet outside the building. These same students were then physically abused by being dragged head first down the stairs by police at the request of representatives of the Rektor's office. This is a serious matter that warrants discussion of not only the incident itself, but one could also argue if it is time for the entire Rektor's office, including Renström and Kristensson, to resign given their willingness to flaunt Swedish law by abusing students.

This is not the first time that the Lund University Rektor's office (first under Torbjörn von Schantz, and then under Erik Renström, both with Susanne Kristensson at their side) has acted recklessly in ways that harm students and early career researchers alike. The Rektor's office under von Schantz, Renström and Kristensson has repeatedly failed to exercise their "duty of care" legally required in their handling of students by law.

Here's an excerpt of a letter of protest in response to this violent incident instigated by the Lund University management against its own students:

"We, academic and administrative staff of Lund University, are appalled by the university management’s treatment of student representatives who were invited to the meeting with Deputy Vice-Chancellor Lena Eskilsson and Pro Vice-Chancellor Jimmie Kristensson yesterday, on 23 May, as well as the official communications pertaining to that meeting.

We are deeply troubled by the management’s decision to call the police to “escort” the invited students out of Kungshuset or, as photographic evidence shows, violently drag them down the stairs and literally throw them out of the building, where, according to the Vice-Chancellor’s previous remarks, they had received a “standing invitation” to enter. The actions of the university management represent the utter neglect of a university’s responsibilities towards its own students. We, as teachers and university administrators, have a duty of care. Students are entitled to expect from us that university premises are safe spaces for them. Not living up to those minimum standards is shameful, utterly dishonourable. Exposing the students to or threatening them with the use of violence is unacceptable. It is not a justifiable response to students peacefully waiting for a response regarding scheduling a subsequent meeting, to which the management committed.

[...] Before the encampment in Lundagård began, students and staff had been seeking contact with the management and a response to their demands for months. Therefore, we find the students’ insistence on clear information about the date of the next meeting or about the time by which such meeting is to be scheduled perfectly understandable. We cannot afford waiting for seven more months for the university management to reply, watching tens of thousands of civilians being brutally murdered, with thousands more being starved to death as we write. That the University administration found it more suitable to call the police than to commit to scheduling the next meeting by a reasonable point in time shows the utter lack of good faith in conducting any conversations with its own students – a fact that also throws some doubt on the reasons behind the lack of constructive dialogue that the official communication laments.

We stand in solidarity with the students and urge the University administration to refrain from putting students at risk, engage with them in good faith dialogue, and guarantee them safety and protection."

What can be done? Show solidarity with the students and demand accountability of the Rektor's office! Tell them that their brute force 'cancel culture' and Master suppression tactics will not be tolerated! You can raise your voice and show your support along with the students, academic researchers and administrative staff who have already rallied to support the injured students by signing the letter at the following link: https://www.luap.se/response

A "duty of care" is owed by all university administrators and professors to all students at all times without exception! It's time to demand that the Rektor's office ensures the safety of all Lund University students! By signing the letter, you can show your support for student safety, academic freedom and stand against the abuse of students by this out of control, authoritarian, unlawful Rektor's office that ignores its "duty of care".

Image source: https://www.instagram.com/lundstudentsforpalestine/p/C7cuof5ilmz/?hl=en&img_index=7

Doctoral students unite! Defend your academic freedom to freely research, read, write, travel and publish!

"Do you want the WHO to be given legally binding authority over your health, freedom and sovereignty?" asks Dr. Tess Lawrie, PhD. The WHO is attempting to rush through unreviewed and unvetted text for a vote at their upcoming meeting in May 2024. Watch Dr. Lawrie being interviewed by Dr. Drew as she discusses the danger we face and the need to take urgent action to and to stop this dangerous power grab that threatens our academic freedom:
https://rumble.com/v4f32nl-ex-who-consultant-who-leadership-is-compromised-and-seizing-power-w-dr.-tes.html

Read more on Dr. Lawrie's Substack: https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/do-you-want-the-who-to-be-given-legally

Take action! Join the daily Zoom call 8pm Central European Time with researcher James Roguski to find out what you can do in your area: https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/daily-zoom-meetings

Get more inspiration and resources here: https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/exitthewhoorg

Does Sweden need to immediately?

The World Council for Health is hosting an independent Expert Hearing at 6 pm UTC on Tuesday 26 March 2024 to independently appraise the WHO’s conduct and to discuss strategies to counter the WHO’s attempted power grab. This Expert Hearing will be hosted by legal expert Shabnam Palesa Mohamed and Dr Tess Lawrie, PhD. Expert speakers include Dr Meryl Nass (USA), Dr Astrid Stuckleberger (Switzerland), Dr Sylvia Behrendt (Austria) and more.

Join the Expert Hearing here:

Expert Hearing: The WHO Power Grab As the world grapples with the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis and is being propagandised on ‘Disease X’ to drive centralised monopoly, it is imperative to

Did you know that people are joining together in solidarity by demonstrating to protect Sweden's sovereignty and to ?

More than 1,500 people joined the most recent manifestation in Stockholm to express their dismay at proposals to give the World Health Organization (WHO) an expanded mandate in future health crises. Speakers included Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Hans Zingmark, and Dr. Meryl Nass. Another featured speaker was British MP Andrew Bridgen who praised Sweden for its decision not to follow the WHO's recommended lockdowns, particularly the closure of schools and universities.

Read more (in Swedish):
https://partietmod.se/2023/10/04/den-framgangsrik-manifestation-for-sveriges-suveranitet-och-for-en-exit-ur-who-lockade-over-1500-personer-till-stockholm/