In case of trouble

In case of trouble

A PhD may be rough. If you are in trouble, or feeling bad, do not stay alone! The sooner you share your troubles the easier it is to find help.

Read again your thesis charter, which includes prescriptions to solve conflicts. You may ask:
* Your thesis committee
* members of your laboratory
* The doctoral school representatives
* PhD students representatives
* Anybody you trust

Some problems deserve a special attetion. Do not by-pass them, whether you are a witness or a victim.

A PhD is a lot of work. Usually much more than a typical job.

However you should not work night and day, WE included. There may be some times when extra efforts are required. But you must also keep a healthy life, including (some) hollidays. You will work better if you keep in shape.

These guidelines were written for the SciencesPo school so the mail contact and phone number are not valid for the doctoral school.

We recommend you to read these brochures (link above) about sexual harassment to help you to identify and react if need be. Indeed, a part of sexual harassment problems is that it is not always detected as sexual harassment by the victims or/and witnesses.

Moreover, contrary to popular belief, sexual harassment perpetrators are not only supervisors or bosses, it can come from anyone: PhD students, postdocs, researchers, professors, ... (male and female). We want to remind you that sexual harassment is against the law and only the perpetrators are to blame and not the victims.

If you are a victim or a witness of an inappropriate situation, you can contact the representative students, the representative from the Universities or the director of the doctoral school. You can also talk confidently to a doctor, a nurse or a social worker in the universities and/or laboratories.

News

  • Candidates on the main list funded by the ED AAIF competition: ABDO Eddy, AKIB Istiak Hossain, ASHIMBEKOVA Aishabibi, BARALDI Edoardo, BOIN Tristan, BRUCKMANN Franziska, CHERIER Erwan, CRASCALL-KENNEDY Lilian, CRYAN Sasha, EL-BEZ—SÉBASTIEN Noémie, GARNICHEY Marine, GOVEKAR Théo, JACOB Blaise, LE NAGAT NEHER Baptiste, LISSONI Michele, LIU Ziyu, LUKE Kevin, MAINDON Nathan, PERNET Emilie, PIERRE Sébastien, PILUSO Aurélien, PINEY Anthony, PRÉVOTAT Clément, RIZZI Felipe, SANGALLI Valentina, SYTY Angèle, TABARY Maxence, TORNATORE Félix, VENET Mathieu, ZENK Kai
  • Candidates on the complementary list for the ED AAIF competition, in alphabetical order: ANTHORE Adrien, BELLEC Alice, BELLOIR Léo, CHANDRA Surabhi, CHAWAK Chaitanya, CHOKAR Emma, DESOUBRIE Baptiste, DUSSERRE Tanguy, EL RHIRHAYI Anwar, GANESARATNAM Ganushan, GERASIMOV Ivan, GUILLAUME Claire, KALTIAINEN Aino, LAURENT Valentine, LING Chih Teng, NAMDAR Mohmmad Hossein, PAGES Matthieu, SALIBUR Estelle, SINGIRIKONDA Guru Sai Haveesh, VARSHA NATARAJAN Varsha, VOLOSHYN Petro
  • The ED AAIF is saddened to learn of the death of one of its alumni, Paul de Fromont, who completed his thesis at LUTH with Jean-Michel Alimi in 2016. We offer our condolences to Diane, his wife, and to all his family and friends.
  • -* The 2023 Kick-off meeting of AAIF ED will take place on 9 October 2023 at the Observatoire de Paris, Meudon Campus.
  • The ED and PhDTalent are organising a skills assessment for doctoral students on 5 September 2023. Contact the ED if you are interested in this course.

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