Fakulta rybářství a ochrany vod JU

Study

Study in the doctoral study programme is based on the individual study plan. The departmental board usually orders a student to attend to 7 subjects on offer, based on the focus of the student's dissertation and the recommendation of the admissions committee. The tutor and the student can add up to 2 additional subjects.

All the students take exams in English (FCE, TOFEL - min 90 points, or IELTS - min 5,5 points).

International experience

The PhD student shall spend at least three months in a foreign department as an educational stay during the studies.

The student must participate in the international conference.

Professional practice

Every student shall actively participate in operational works on experimental faculty facilities. In the first year, the student has to undergo short-term educational stays in the hatchery, model experimental facility, experimental pond station to the total extent of 20 working days. Each student has to undergo at least three short-term (for 5 - 10 workdays) educational stays in various workplaces mentioned above

For professional practice in Experimental Fish Culture Facility 7-8 days (Vodňany), please contact: Dipl.-Ing. Pavel Lepič, Ph.D. lepic@frov.jcu.cz

For professional practice in Genetic Fisheries Center 7-8 days (Vodňany), please contact Dipl.-Ing. David Gela, Ph.D. gela@frov.jcu.cz

For professional practice at fish culture facilities, in a fish processing facility or a fish shop five days (Č. Budějovice), please contact Lucie Rybová - lrybova@frov.jcu.cz. Important information about Professional practice in Č. Budějovice you can find here.

Each student of the first or second grade is obliged in each term to participate in at least two fishing out of a pond greater than 1 ha.

Teaching

An individual study plan must also include at least 90 hours of pedagogic activities in the relevant field during the entire period of study.

Each student of the third and fourth grade is obliged to manage projects at summer schools.

Each student shall assist as a consultant of at least one bachelor, master or dissertation thesis during the study.

Dissertation

A doctoral student at the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters (hereafter student) systematically works on the topic of his/her dissertation (hereafter DW) under the supervision of the supervisor (s) and consultant for the entire study period (1. - 4. year).
At the beginning of their studies, students elaborate a literature review to the subject of their dissertation in English (SS 1st year of study).
Every year until PhD thesis defense student shall present his/her progress and dissertation results in the seminar (1. - 4. year).
The student has to publish as a first author at least two articles in peer-reviewed journals indexed on Web of Science. Of these, at least one of the articles must be in a journal that is in the first quartile in the area to which it belongs, orat least two articles must be in the journals that are worst in the third quartile (evaluated by the impact factor of the journal by WoS). ln case, the journal is included in multiple categories, the arithmetic mean of the location of the journal in quartiles across categories is decisive. The journal must meet this criterion at least once in the last three years before the manuscript is accepted. The articles must address and be part of the dissertation topic. One of the outputs may be an overview article. Students need to be guided and made every effort to publish a coherent part of their own results in the third year of study.
The student must participate in an international conference.

Duties for students in each year of study