Stefano Volpe Mar 23
If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated.

Fellow PhD student: hello! ​​ I hope you had a good Monday.

0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD?
1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already have a Master's?
2) How many academic credits (e.g., ECTS) are you required to get in order to complete your PhD?
3) If you are paid for TAing, can you estimate the number of teaching contact hours you need in order to supplement other sources of funding?

My union and Ph.D. committee have been asking for feedback, and I have a theory I'd like to test. Feel free to use private mentions if you want.

Edit: I am now using "academic credits" to make myself more understandable to non-EU people.
Show threadBenedikt Peterseim

@foxy 0) The Netherlands 1) Four years. Yes. 2) 30 ETCS 4) N/A I think, since teaching is part of my general work contract and not a separate job.

Hope it helps in testing your theory. :)

Mar 23 at 4:14pmWeb
Show threadStefano Volpe Mar 23

@benediktpeterseim

4) N/A I think, since teaching is part of my general work contract and not a separate job. Then let's say you're supplementing the trivial (empty) source of funding with your work contract, which requires you to TA. If you also factor in your PhD thesis semester, how many hours per week would you say you spend on contact hours on average? (Contact hours = hours actually spent in class.)

Show threadBenedikt PeterseimMar 23

@foxy In that case, it would be 2 contact hours per week, one quarter of the academic year, plus a little bit of thesis supervision (if that counts) for a total average of about 0,75 contact hours per week.

However, I should say that preparation and grading dominate the time spent in class teaching by a lot, so I’m not sure if the "contact hours" are an interesting metric in my case. My total time spent on teaching activities is probably more around 2-3 hours a week, when averaged over the whole year.