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Call for doctoral student tutors, March 2026

Published: 2.2.2026

Are you interested in meeting new people across disciplines and introduce them to the Aalto community of doctoral students? Doctoral education services are looking for tutors for the new doctoral students as part of the Doctoral Orientation Days 2-3 March 2026.

Registration is open until 20 February 2026.

As a tutor, you are assigned a group of doctoral students that you meet and greet in person at campus. Your role is to welcome the new doctoral students to the Aalto community, help them to get to know the everyday life in Aalto and familiarise them with the most important services on campus.

Usually tutors work in pairs, as long as enough people sign-up. Tutor groups are mixed, meaning that each groups has students from different Schools.

Required presence

Tutors are welcome to participate in the whole orientation programme, but are expected to participate at minimum as follows:

Mon 23.2.2026 10:15-11:00 Tutor briefing (campus / online) You will meet your tutor pair in the briefing.
- Optional: the briefing is followed by free lunch offered by the DOC+ initiative, 11:00-12:00.
Mon 2.3.2026 10:55 Introducing the tutors
Mon 3.3.2026 11:00-12:30 Meeting your tutor group over lunch (tutors' lunch will be compensated)
- Strongly recommended: Aallonhuiput's evening event 2.3.2026 for new doctoral students, attending with your group
Tue 3.3.2026 12:00-13:00 Meeting your tutor group over lunch (tutors' lunch will be compensated)

Strongly recommended also:

Being in contact with your tutor group also after the Orientation Days

We value the time and effort our tutors are willing to put in to make the beginning of doctoral studies and research more pleasant and less confusing for the new doctoral students.

Credits for tutoring

Many of our doctoral programme have included an independently completed University practices I D -course to their curriculum 2024-2026 (usually under the General Research Studies module), which can be used to give credit for e.g. tutoring activities. More information from your doctoral programme's curriculum and Sisu (check the course code from your curriculum) and our instructions for independently completed individual studies. The possibility for credits is to be discussed with the supervising professor.