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Pars en thèse
Dear PhD candidate,
This guide’s title sounds like an order. It is like an irrepressible appeal inviting you to you embark
on a new adventure without any hesitation… At the same time, it refers to a parenthesis,
suspended time, reflection rather than precipitation. This is, of course, no coincidence.
If you take a look at “Pars-en-thèse” today, it’s because you have arrived at a decisive moment
in your personal and professional development. So take some time to read and reflect. This
guide provides a great deal of information which you will find indispensable and, what’s more, it
will connect you to those who have taken the plunge of entering a PhD programme before you!
Perhaps you are one of those who felt a vocation for research
early on, but it is more likely you
have discovered the prospect of doing a PhD only very recently within the scope of your
Master's thesis or recruitment as a research and teaching assistant or project researcher. We
now invite you to consider doctoral studies as a real professional and personal experience, as a
stepping stone towards a future that allows you to reach your full potential. Doctoral studies are
anything but a withdrawal or excessive specialisation!
During your doctoral studies you will expand your knowledge and share ideas with the world. If
you join us, you will not do a PhD at Liège University, but thanks to Liège University you will
discover a wider network of researchers; from Liège you will fan out and you will make Liège
known abroad…
You will soon find out that doing a PhD is not as testing as it might sound and that it will no
doubt be the most fertile and creative parenthesis of your life. Innovate, change, move… put
your knowledge and competencies into action. Doctoral studies require young people to commit
themselves… enter the world through the front door of research.
Embark on a thesis! You will see, you will be amazed!
We look forward to seeing you soon
Gentiane Haesbroeck,
President of the Doctoral Council