Personal study/research counselling: when you encounter puzzling questions or challenges, counselling helps you move forward and supports the progress of your doctoral studies. The counsellor is Sonja Kniivilä. 

Book an appointment by email.

Processes related to your studies from student admissions to the pre-examination and graduation. 

Contact primarily by email. CHEM, ELEC and SCI: there is also a walk-in reception time on Thursday mornings.

You can contact a study psychologist for example when you are looking for help with time management, you find yourself procrastinating, you are lacking motivation, you are looking for a study method that suits you, or you are experiencing study related stress, anxiety or burnout.

Book an appointment by email.

A career counselling psychologist specializes in career management issues and supports you in career and life planning, and transition to work. Career counselling supports you in self-knowledge, building a meaningful career, identifying opportunities, and making decisions.

Book an appointment by email.

The Starting Point of Wellbeing offers students easy access to counselling and advice on matters of well-being and study ability.

Drop-in individual guidance available without appointment.

The ombudspersons are volunteer professors with solid experience of academic practices, whom doctoral students can contact in confidence when they have challenges related to their doctoral research but for one reason or another do not wish to discuss the matter with their supervising professor or thesis advisor.

Book a discussion time by email.

Aalto University students and staff can book a session for personal guidance in information skills with a Library Services specialist. We especially recommend this service for those conducting research at different stages of their studies.

The information skills guidance session aims to help with selecting information sources, making searching for and evaluating information easier, and/or to providing tools for information management. We’ll focus on the information skills goals that best serve your wishes and needs.

Book an appointment in MyStudies, see instructions on the website.

You can contact the Aalto chaplains whenever you want to speak to someone in confidence about anything related to work, personal relationships or your life situation in general. You can also turn to them if you need help in finding others who share your religion.

Book a discussion time by email or telephone. 

The shop steward helps and advises employees in issues related to the employment relationship and provides guidance on labour legislation and on issues concerning the treatment of employees. They can act as a support person in conflicts between an individual employee and the employer if the employee belongs to the trade union represented by the shop steward.

You can contact the shop steward by telephone or arrange a meeting by email.

A weekly meeting where you can get expert advice on research data and open science topics, such as data management, storage, analysis, sharing, reproducibility, ethics. This meeting is part of Zoom support garage by Aalto Scientific Computing, so you can also ask about scientific computing, help with your code, or with your research software

Zoom, every Wednesda
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Info sessions for doctoral students on topics related to doctoral studies and research on Thursday mornings on campus. You can ask questions during the sessions.

On campus, every Thursday

Doctoral Education Services organises an online clinic once a month and supports doctoral students in using Sisu and in preparing the Doctoral personal study plan, DPSP.

Zoom, once a month (the second Friday of each month)
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Monthly workshops are available in both Finnish and English. The workshop centres on the key elements of a doctoral thesis and focuses on the structure of the integrative summary. The workshop can also cover academic writing style and referencing techniques. Peer feedback may also be possible.

Online, monthly
Request a link by email