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Dissertations are examined in two stages: the first stage is the preliminary examination and the public examination is the second. Matters pertaining to the examination of doctoral dissertations are decided by the faculty council of the doctoral candidate’s home faculty.

Once the doctoral candidate has completed the studies required for the degree and their dissertation has been approved, the faculty will award them with a doctorate.

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The extent and scope of a doctoral dissertation.

A dissertation is a coherent document that is based on the doctoral candidate’s own, independent research and contains new scientific findings on the candidate’s discipline. It can be a monograph or a series of papers. A dissertation composed of a series of papers consists of peer-reviewed academic publications or manuscripts that have been approved for publication, along with their summaries. A monograph is a coherent scientific writing that is written by a single author, is based on research and has not been published before.

The recommended scope for a monograph is 250 pages, excluding appendices. A series of papers is typically composed of 3–5 peer-reviewed articles and their summaries, which present the background and objectives of the study, the methods and data used, the research findings as well as reflection and conclusions.

A more specific description of the criteria set for doctoral dissertations can be found under Instructions for Students .

If the Faculty has more detailed instructions on the criteria for doctoral dissertations, they are found on the faculties’ external websites .

Before the preliminary examination

It is the duty of the supervisors to ensure that the dissertation manuscript is sufficiently finished to be submitted for preliminary examination and that the doctoral candidate has completed all the studies required for the degree. Once the doctoral candidate is getting close to completion, you should discuss the schedule of the preliminary examination and reserve enough time for you and the other supervisors to review the latest version of the manuscript.

Before starting the preliminary examination, the doctoral candidate must submit the manuscript to the Ouriginal plagiarism detection system (previously called Urkund) following the instructions provide by their faculty. Depending on the faculty, the Ouriginal report will be checked by the supervisor or the coordinating academic (responsible person / responsible professor).

You should also start considering who the preliminary examiners will be well in advance. The official proposal for the preliminary examiners is submitted by the doctoral candidate’s coordinating academic after they have consulted the supervisors and the doctoral candidate. In practice, the main responsibility for finding suitable examiners usually falls on the supervisors. When you are discussing suitable preliminary examiners, please consider the following:

• At least two preliminary examiners are always appointed. 
• The preliminary examiners are always appointed from outside the doctoral candidate’s home faculty and usually also from outside the University of Helsinki.
• The preliminary examiners must hold the title of professor or docent, or a doctorate with corresponding scientific merits. Members of the doctoral candidate’s thesis committee may not be appointed as preliminary examiners.
• The persons included in the proposal must accept the role before the proposal is submitted.

Disqualification rules must be taken into account when appointing preliminary examiners. The preliminary examiners must be impartial towards the doctoral candidate, the dissertation and the supervisors. Thus, people disqualified from acting as preliminary examiners include:

• individuals who have co-authored one of the articles included in the dissertation,
• individuals who are or who have been in research collaboration with the doctoral candidate during the dissertation project,
• individuals who have conducted close research collaboration with the dissertation supervisor in the three years before the examination of the dissertation,
• close relatives of the doctoral candidate,
• immediate supervisors or subordinates of the doctoral candidate or their supervisor, or
• members of the thesis committee.

Instructions for Students contains instructions for submitting a dissertation for preliminary examination.

Preliminary examination

Preliminary examiners must submit a preliminary examination statement within 2 months of the faculty council meeting where the preliminary examination has been initiated. The statement period is usually longer during the summer months.

Preliminary examiners, either separately or together, submit a statement where they either recommend granting permission to proceed to the public defence of the manuscript or state that, in its current state, the manuscript does not fulfil the minimum requirements set for a doctoral dissertation.

The preliminary examiners may suggest minor revisions to the manuscript even if the statement is favourable. Read the statements together with the doctoral candidate and agree on how to proceed with the revisions.

If one or both of the statements are unfavourable, the examination will expire. In these cases, the examination can be restarted once the doctoral candidate has completed the required corrections and the supervisors or the coordinating academic recommend that the examination is restarted. The doctoral candidate may submit a written objection to unfavourable statements to the faculty if they wish.

Faculties’ instructions for the preliminary examiners of doctoral dissertations are available on the faculties’ external websites .

Permission to proceed to public examination and the grading committee

If the preliminary examination statements are favourable, the faculty council grants the doctoral candidate permission to proceed to the public examination in the next possible meeting. When granting permission, which is normally done during the same meeting, the faculty council also appoints a grading committee for the dissertation.

The grading committee includes the opponent, a custos and one or two faculty representatives as deemed appropriate by the faculty. Two opponents may be appointed in special cases; for example, if required by the dissertation’s cross-disciplinary subject. For a justified reason, one of the preliminary examiners may also be appointed as an opponent.

The opponents are subject to the same competence and disqualification rules as the preliminary examiners. The doctoral candidate’s coordinating academic submits the proposal on the opponent once they have consulted the supervisors. In practice, the main responsibility for finding a suitable opponent usually falls to the supervisors.

A professor or an associate professor at the faculty is appointed to act as the Custos in the public examination. A supervisor of the thesis who holds the title of docent and is employed by the faculty can also act as a Custos. If Custos is a supervisor or is otherwise disqualified, he or she may not participate in proposing a grade for the dissertation.

The faculty representatives must be professors, docents or docent-level members of the teaching and research staff at the University of Helsinki. In most faculties, the custos can also act as a faculty representative if they are not one of the dissertation supervisors.

Faculties’ instructions for the members of the grading committee are available on the faculties’ external websites .

The public examination and its preparations

Once the doctoral candidate has been granted permission to proceed to public examination, the candidate must take care of the printing and distribution of the dissertation as well as the preparations and communications related to the public examination event.

The custos is responsible for ensuring that the doctoral candidate and the grading committee agree on the date of the public examination as soon as possible after the permission to proceed has been granted. All persons appointed to the grading committee must be present at the public examination.

The doctoral candidate’s home faculty covers the fees for the examination room and the travel and accommodation costs of the opponent. The doctoral candidate is responsible for the costs of organising a coffee service or a post-doctoral party.

Instructions for doctoral candidates on the printing and distribution of the dissertation and the preparations and communications related to a public examination are available under Instructions for Students . The procedures and protocol for public examinations are described in more detail on the university’s Welcome to the public examination page .

Approval and grading of the dissertation

The opponent must submit a statement on the dissertation within two weeks of the public examination. In addition, the grading committee prepares a grade proposal together.

The faculty council issues a decision on the grade and approval of the dissertation on the basis of the statements made by the grading committee. However, the faculty’s decision is not bound to the grade proposal.

Doctoral dissertations are graded on a scale of Fail – Pass – Pass with Distinction. The grading follows the university’s general dissertation criteria and the faculties’ more specific assessment criteria. Faculties’ assessment criteria are available on the faculties’ external websites .

Where can you seek help for matters related to the examination of doctoral dissertations?

The education planning officers at the doctoral study services of different faculties act as presenters in all matters pertaining to the examination of doctoral dissertations at the faculty council. The education planning officers instruct the doctoral candidates, the examiners and the members of the grading committee on the different steps of the process, ensuring that all relevant parties receive the examination statements and other necessary information at the right time.

If you or a doctoral candidate you are supervising have any questions on the examination process and its schedule, you can always turn to the doctoral student services at the doctoral candidate’s faculty. The contact details for doctoral student services at different faculties are provided under Instructions for Students .

What are the policies based on?

The criteria, examination and the approval of dissertations are specified in the Rector’s decisions 498/2017, 134/2019 and 2379/2021. Specific dissertation assessment criteria and any specifications to the examination process are decided by the faculty councils.

See also the Instructions for Students

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HELSINKI (TND) — The University of Helsinki says Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will receive an honorary doctorate.

In an announcement, the university says that 30 "distinguished individuals from around the world" will become "new honorary doctors" and be awarded the title of "doctor honoris causa," which is called "the University’s highest recognition."

The Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Law will all give out their own honorary doctorates.

Greta Thunberg will be among the eight honorary doctorates given by the university's Faculty of Theology on June 9.

Thunberg is a 20-year-old environmental activist from Sweden who has attained global name recognition for her climate change activism.

She first became famous as a teenager in 2018 for skipping school and protesting outside her country's parliament, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

Thunberg reportedly stood in protest holding a sign reading "Skolstrejk för Klimatet," meaning "School Strike for Climate" in English.

While she was initially alone, more and more people began joining her protest and, eventually, her story attained both national and international fame.

She has since been invited to speak about climate change in front of legislatures around the world, including the World Economic Forum and the European Parliament.

In 2019, she famously visited a United Nations climate event in New York City.

Thunberg has both fans and critics. Conservatives often dismiss Thunberg's concerns and beliefs as outlandish or sensationalized. Even the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, called her a "brat."

Currently, Thunberg has over 5.8 million followers on Twitter.

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is to be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki’s theology department in late Spring. 

The 20-year-old Swedish climate activist was named Monday among 30 other individuals to be awarded the title of "doctor honoris causa" – the university’s highest recognition. Among the most high-profile names included in the list was Sauli Niinistö, Finland’s president since 2012, who has been appointed an honorary doctorate in philosophy. The ceremony will take place in May. 

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The ceremony is part of Finland’s centuries-old Conferment of Jubilee, in which individuals are recognized for their professional and artistic achievements. 

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In 2019, she was named TIME Magazine’s "Person of the Year" for raising awareness of climate change. 

As a teen, she famously scolded world leaders during a speech at the United Nations, saying the world was in the beginning of a "mass extinction" but leaders were simply focused on money. 

"How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet, I am one of the lucky ones," she said. 

The announcement of Thunberg’s honorary title comes as a Swedish court gave her and hundreds of other climate activists the okay to proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Swedish state for "insufficient climate policy." 

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Degree programmes and admissions

At the University of Helsinki, education is organised into degree programmes, three of which are based at the Faculty of Theology: the three-year Bachelor’s Programme in Theology and Religious Studies, the two-year Master’s Programme in Theology and Religious Studies and the international Master’s Programme in Intercultural Encounters.

• The Master’s Programme in Intercultural Encounters is an English-language programme, whose Study Track in Religion and Diversity offers the opportunity to complete a Master of Theology degree.
• The Bachelor’s Programme in Theology and Religious Studies educates broad-based specialists in religion. Students familiarise themselves with religious studies through the different disciplines of theology, observing religion as a phenomenon that affects history, society, values and global challenges. Graduates of the programme receive a Bachelor of Theology degree.
• The mission of the Master’s Programme in Theology and Religious Studies is to engage in high-quality academic research and teaching in historical, conceptual and cultural questions involving religion and theology. The degree programme conducts research on the individual, cultural and social significance of religions from the past to the present. In-depth research-based knowledge helps us understand the momentous changes taking place in Europe and worldwide, including multiculturalism, religious extremism, interreligious relations, diversity and the future of people’s welfare. Graduates of the programme receive a Master of Theology degree.
• The Faculty also coordinates the Doctoral Programme in Theology and Religious Studies .

The Master’s Programme in Intercultural Encounters (ICE) is an English-language programme, whose the thematic module Religion and Diversity offers the opportunity to complete a Master of Theology degree.

ICE is a genuinely interdisciplinary programme where you can enhance your thinking and grow your expertise in cultural understanding. It offers insights into multidisciplinary approaches to intercultural issues, drawing from perspectives offered by Communication, Indigenous Studies, the Study of Religions, Theology, and Area and Cultural Studies. ICE also gives you the tools to succeed in internationally-oriented professional life. In addition, you will learn theoretical thinking and practical research skills.

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The job market situation of the Faculty’s graduates of 2016 was good in autumn 2021, with 94% of the survey respondents being employed, 2% unemployed and 5% outside the workforce. 

Job market situation of Faculty of Theology graduates 5 years after graduation

• 94 % employed
• Share of employed in the workforce: 98 %
• Median monthly salary: €3 100

For more information, please see the Career Monitoring Report .

The degree programme website provides all the information relevant to applying.

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• The Master’s Programme in Theology and Religious Studies

Some of the studies in the bachelor's program in theology and religious studies are offered as open university studies to anyone interested in the subject.

The studies are mainly in Finnish. However, the study program includes some courses in Islamic theology in English.      

The Faculty of Theology prepares students for duties requiring expertise in religions, worldviews, and values. They engage in high-quality academic research and teaching in historical, conceptual, and cultural questions involving religion and theology. The Faculty is an international academic community, unaffiliated with any particular religion or belief.

They are among Europe’s largest faculties of theology measured by the number of students. Their Faculty has a total of nearly 1,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Around 150 Masters of Theology and some 15 Doctors of Theology or Doctors of Philosophy graduate from the Faculty every year. Their teaching and research staff numbers are around 100. External funding accounts for over 40% of the Faculty’s budget.

In 2014–2019, the Faculty houses two Centres of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland: Reason and Religious Recognition and Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions. In addition, the Faculty involves Centre of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland from 2018 to 2025: Ancient Near Eastern Empires.

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The Faculty of Theology studies the individual, cultural and social significance of religions from times past to the present. With in-depth scientific knowledge, they can better understand the momentous changes taking place in Europe and around the world, including multiculturalism, religious extremism, interfaith relations, diversity, and the future of wellbeing.

The Faculty offers five disciplines:

• - biblical studies
• - church history
• - practical theology
• - systematic theology
• - study of religions

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Biblical Studies

• Faculty of Theology
• Website http://www.helsinki.fi/teol/hyel/english/index.htm

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Organisation profile.

The Department of Biblical Studies is a center for scientific research and teaching of the Bible. The research conducted at the department focuses both on canonical and extra-canonical materials in order to cast light on the formation of Judaism and Christianity.

The staff of the department is also participating actively in discussions concerning: the influence of the Bible on Western culture in general; its application to present Christianity; an ongoing dialogue between religions.

The department offers courses ranging from basic to post-graduate levels in its majors, Old and New Testament Studies. Its teachers are also responsible for the Greek and Hebrew courses required for the completion of the Master's degree in the Faculty of Theology.

The language of instruction is usually Finnish but courses in English are arranged every year and designed mainly for exchange students and students who are studying in Helsinki but whose native language is not Finnish or Swedish. In the field of Biblical Studies, the required intermediate and advanced level reading is mostly in English and/or German. Thus, it is also possible for non-natives to complete courses that are not based on English lectures.

The department has four permanent professorships and four lecturers. However, the actual academic community is much larger since the department also provides research facilities for several qualified docents and post-graduate students working for the Academy of Finland and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study.

Because many of the docents and post-graduate students are also actively involved in teaching and their specialities cover a wide range of canonical and non-canonical topics, the department is known by many students of the Bible (from young undergraduates to internationally established names in the field) as a stimulating and amiable working environment.

Fields of Science

• 614 Theology

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• Doctoral Programme in Political, Soci­etal and Regional Change

Person: Doctoral Researcher

Tero Alstola

• Department of Languages - University Researcher
• Faculty Common Matters (Faculty of Arts) - Title of Docent

Person: U3 Research and teaching staff, UH

Kaisa Autere

• Department of Cultures - Doctoral Researcher
• Archaeology
• Doctoral Programme in History and Cultural Heritage

Person: U1 Research and teaching staff, Doctoral Researcher

Rotem Avneri Meir

• Biblical Studies - Postdoctoral Researcher

Person: U2 Teaching and research staff

Eleanor Rose Bennett

• Department of Languages - Postdoctoral Researcher
• Department of Cultures - Grant-funded researcher

Person: Visiting scholar, U2 Teaching and research staff

Research units

Department of Cultures , Biblical Studies

Organisational unit : Research group

• 2 Not started
• 66 Finished

Projects per year

WORK-IT: Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society

Silverman, J. M. & Cerullo, L.

European Commission

01/09/2024 → 31/08/2029

Project : EU Horizon Europe: European Research Council (HORIZON-ERC)

HSSH Catalyst 2023 Ancient Labor Network

Silverman, J. M. , Pfoh, E. , Spunaugle, A. , Avneri Meir, R. , Töyräänvuori, J. , Valk, J. , Kletter, R. , Wallis, C. , Tuori, K. , Simelius, S. , Kahlos, M. , Eloranta, J. & Alstola, T.

01/01/2024 → 30/11/2024

Project : Other project

Automatic Classification and Analysis of Texts from Egyptian Antiquity

Jauhiainen, T. , Henriksson, E., Jauhiainen, H. & Vierros, M.

Koneen Säätiö

01/01/2024 → 30/11/2029

Project : Foundations (Private Foundations, Non-Profit Foundations, Charitable Trusts)

Phoenician sustainable architecture and environmental adaptation along the Mediterranean Sea

Lorenzon, M. , Cutillas Victoria, B. & Karakaya, D.

01/09/2023 → 30/06/2025

Project : Research project

EXPRECCE: Experimenting Early Christianity in Cultural Evolution: Martyrs, Manuscripts, and Hostility towards Outgroups

Nikki, N. , Hyytiäinen, P. & Söderholm, H. J.

01/09/2023 → 31/08/2026

Publications

• 1318 Chapter
• 1074 Article
• 137 Entry for encyclopedia / dictionary
• 133 Anthology or special issue
• 88 Conference contribution
• 82 Digital or Visual Products
• 53 Literature review (scientific)
• 46 Book/Film/Article review
• 44 Doctoral Thesis
• 40 Other articles
• 27 Other contribution
• 26 Editorial
• 25 Review Article
• 13 Foreword / postscript
• 13 Master's thesis
• 7 Comment/debate
• 6 Commissioned report
• 3 Exhibition
• 1 Other conference material
• 1 Conference article
• 1 Performance
• 1 Bachelor's thesis

Research output per year

Aarteita Kuolleeltamereltä 1/6: Kuollut ja elävä autiomaa

Research output : Contribution to journal › Article › General public

Aarteita Kuolleeltamereltä 2/6: Qumranin kääröjen vallankumous

Aarteita kuolleeltamereltä 3/6: qumranissa korostettiin "uutta liittoa", aarteita kuolleeltamereltä 4/6: käydään pöytään, aarteita kuolleeltamereltä 5/6: enkelioppia ja taivaallisia temppelinäkymiä.

• 1679 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
• 488 Oral presentation
• 265 Academic visit to other institution
• 262 Invited talk
• 202 Public Talks
• 122 Peer review of manuscripts
• 117 Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
• 115 Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
• 84 Academic visit at UH
• 69 Supervision of other thesis (Master's, Licentiate)
• 61 Types for other activities - External teaching and subject coordination
• 48 Member of doctoral thesis committee / follow-up group
• 38 Membership or other role in public Finnish or international organization
• 38 Types for other activities - Other
• 36 Assessment of candidates for academic posts
• 36 Membership or other role in research network
• 29 Editor of research journal
• 23 Membership or other role in review committee
• 19 Editor of series
• 15 Opponent of doctoral dissertation
• 13 Pre-examiner of doctoral thesis
• 7 Editor of research anthology/collection/conference proceedings
• 4 Post doctoral mentor
• 4 Membership or other role of body in private company/organisation
• 4 Non-academic visit to other institution
• 3 Consultancy
• 3 Editor of special theme number
• 3 Prizes and awards - Prizes and awards
• 2 Editor of communication journal
• 2 Other tasks of an expert in private sector
• 1 Non-academic visit at UH

Activities per year

Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting 2024

Rotem Avneri Meir (Speaker: Presenter)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Improving Language Coverage on HeLI-OTS

Tommi Jauhiainen (Speaker)

Activity : Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Widening Natural Language Processing (WiNLP 2024) (Event)

Tommi Jauhiainen (Reviewer)

Activity : Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts

Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (GeMANE) 6

Eleanor Rose Bennett (Member of organizing committee), Saana Svärd (Member of organizing committee), Agnès Garcia-Ventura (Member of organizing committee), Megan Cifarelli (Member of organizing committee), Dennis Mizzi (Member of organizing committee) & Omar N'Shea (Member of organizing committee)

Suomen Egyptologisen Seuran kuukausikokous / Finnish Egyptological Society

Kaisa Autere (Speaker: Chair)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks

Alfred Kordelinin säätiön tunnustuspalkinto

Sollamo, Raija (Recipient), 6 Nov 2014

Prize : Prizes and awards

ANEE Team 1 Publication Prize

Bennett, Eleanor Rose (Recipient), 2022

Association of Ancient Historians Subvention Award

Avneri Meir, Rotem (Recipient), 2024

EABS Student Paper Prize 2015: The Best Student Paper in New Testament Studies

Kujanpää, Katja (Recipient), 12 Jul 2015

European Association of Biblical Studies Student Prize

Avneri Meir, Rotem (Recipient), 11 Aug 2019

Fear in Akkadian Texts

Svärd, S. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2020

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.3634324

Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Korp Version, May 2019

Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Alstola, T. (Creator), Kielipankki, Jun 2019

http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2019060602

Wanca 2016, Korp-versio

Jauhiainen, H. (Creator) & Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Language Bank of Finland, Aug 2019

http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2019052401

Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts

Alstola, T. (Creator), Zaia, S. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Svärd, S. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.2620130

ANEE lexical portal of Akkadian: fastText

Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Hardwick, S. (Creator), Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Linden, K. (Creator) & Svärd, S. (Creator), Helsingin yliopisto, 2021

http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021060103

Press/Media

Psalmeista viis -podcast, toinen tuotantokausi.

Jutta Jokiranta

1 Media contribution

Press/Media : Press / Media

Inhimillisen rakkauden kieli hengellisyydessä

Martti Nissinen

1 item of Media coverage

Pääsiäisaterian lammas ei ole vain ruokaa, vaan siihen sisältyy monelaista symboliikkaa

Outi Lehtipuu

Aristoteleen kantapää: Tietyt numerot toistuvat Raamatussa

Psalmit 2024 julkaisujuhla.

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