Doctoral Programme in History, Culture and Arts Studies - Admission Criteria and Instructions for Applicants

Call for Applications - Juno Autumn 2024

If you apply for the right to study the application form can be found in Opintopolku/Studyinfo

The application form opens 28.8. and closes 13.9.2024 at 16.00 (Finnish time). -> Instructions on how to fill in the application form.

If you apply for the fixed-term doctoral researcher positions under employment contract, you find the application form in Open vacancies.

The application form opens on 28 August and closes 13 September 4 pm (Finnish time).

NB! If you apply for both the study right and fixed-term doctoral researcher position, you need to fill in two separate applications. You cannot apply for the fixed-term doctoral researcher position unless you have a study right or that you apply it too during the same application period!

• You need 2 supervisors (and major for your degree)
• You need a statement / evaluation of the major subject (professor). Contact the department of your major subject in time (for at least one month before submitting an application). The easiest way to contact the major subject is to fill in this ->form
• Design your 40 ECTS,  you need to add your plan to the application form 
• Prepare also the other documents: research plan, letter of motivation, the copies of degree certification and transcript of records (and translations if needed), possible language certificates and a copy of a valid passport
• Familiarize yourself with the application instructions of the Faculty of Humanities

• Archaelogy, professor Georg Haggrén (georg.haggren(at)utu.fi)
• Cultural History, professor (sari.katajala-peltomaa(at)utu.fi)
• Finnish History, professor Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen (kirsi.vainio-korhonen(at)utu.fi)
• European and World History, professor Taina Syrjämaa (taina.syrjamaa(at)utu.fi)
   
• Folkloristics, professor Anne Heimo (anne.heimo(at)utu.fi)
• European Ethnology, University lecturer Tytti Suominen (tytti.suominen(at)utu.fi)
• Study of Religion, professor Tuomas Martikainen (tuomas.martikainen(at)utu.fi)
   
• Finnish Literature, professor Viola Čapková (viocap(at)utu.fi)
• Media Studies, professor Susanna Paasonen (susanna.paasonen(at)utu.fi)
• Musicology, professor John Richardson (joh.richardson(at)utu.fi)
• Gender Studies, professor Anu Koivunen (anu.koivunen(at)utu.fi)
• Art History, professor Tutta Palin (tupalin@utu.fi)
• Comparative Literature, professor Hanna Meretoja (hanna.meretoja(at)utu.fi)
   
• Digital Culture, professor Jaakko Suominen (jaakko.suominen(at)utu.fi)
• Cultural Heritage, professor Anna Sivula (anna.sivula(at)utu.fi)
• Landscape Studies, professor Maunu Häyrynen (maunu.hayrynen(at)utu.f

Juno is one of the 16 doctoral programmes that belong to the University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS). The doctoral programme gets funding from the budget of the university via UTUGS. The UTUGS’ pay subsidy is meant for the hiring of full-time salaried doctoral researchers and the operational allowance is used to organize courses and activities for doctoral researchers and allowing travel and finalizing grants. The School of History, Culture and Arts Studies gives financial support to Juno, too. 

The positions of salaried doctoral researchers are open every fall and 6-7% of the applicants are successful. The rector of the university decides every year the amount of salaried positions in each doctoral programme after which the board of Juno decides the number and length of positions that can be opened for the application (usually 3/year). According to the guidelines of UTUGS, the doctoral programme prefers long term contracts (max. 4 years).

Applications which arrive in time and meet the criteria for the Doctoral Programme will be evaluated by the Board of the programme in cooperation with external experts. The evaluation will take into consideration the quality of the research plan, the feasibility of the plan, the motivation and the statement of the department (major subject). The phase of the doctoral research and any other funding received by the applicant for doctoral studies is taken into consideration when determining the duration of the Doctoral Researcher position.

All applications for salaried positions are evaluated first by two members of Juno’s board. Board members never evaluate the applicants of their own subject nor participate in the discussion concerning these applications. After this, approximately third of the applications are sent for the external evaluation. When, the doctoral programme has received the evaluations of experts who work outside the University of Turku the coordinator compiles a shortlist according to the evaluations of both board members and external experts. Those members of the Juno’s board who do not have applicants from their own subject on the shortlist will read the applications and evaluations of the shortlisted again and make the final decision.