Call for doctoral student tutors, September 2025
Registration is open until 21 August 2025.
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 25.8.2025 10:15-11:00 Tutor briefing (campus / online) Note: If you have been a doctoral tutor before, training is not mandatory, but recommended. (NOTE corrected date 25.8.)
- Mon 1.9.2025 10:55 Introducing the tutors
- Mon 1.9.2025 11:00-12:30 Meeting your tutor group over lunch (tutors' lunch will be compensated)
- Tue 2.9.2025 12:00-13:00 Meeting your tutor group over lunch (tutors' lunch will be compensated)
Strongly recommended also:
- Mon 1.9.2025 Aallonhuiput's evening event for new doctoral students, attending with your group
- Atteding with your group (2.9.2025)
- 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.
Questions?
Contact us at udes@aalto.fi
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