Hans Sonneveld

Affiliations:

Founder and Board member, Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Doctoral Education (currently)

Advisory Board Member at Promovendi Netwerk Nederland (PhD Network Netherlands) (currently)

Member of the jury: National PhD Supervisor Award committee

Qualifications: Doctorate in the social sciences (1996) – Director of Graduate School (1988 – 2006) – Researcher in the field of doctoral studies (1990 – up until today) – Trainer of PhD candidates and supervisors, > 50 programs EU wide (2006 – up until today)

Teaching:

- Research master students (six-months programs preparing for a DPhil trajectory, during 5 consecutive years, at Tilburg

and Leuven University),

- PhD supervisors (How to supervise your candidates, 3 – 5 days; in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Croatia,

Switzerland),

- PhD candidates (Preparing a PhD research proposal; How to survive the Utrecht doctoral programs as an Asian candidate;

Time management; Planning, etc, etc)

Organising conferences.

Conferences organised within the context of the Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Doctoral Education:

- Professionalization of the Dutch doctoral programs;

- Supporting external PhD candidates;

- Doctoral projects suffering from long delay;

- Drop-out among PhD candidates;

- Dissertation quality in the Netherlands;

- Doctoral studies in 2025

- Good Graduate School Principles

Research (sample of projects).

-- (2020) Supervision quality at the Graduate School in Geography and Earth System Science University of Zurich;

-- (2017) Dissertations rejected by doctoral committees (Law School Tilburg University, 2017, internal report)

-- (2016) Waaijer CJF, Sonneveld H, Buitendijk SE, van Bochove CA, van der Weijden ICM. The Role of Gender in the

Employment, Career Perception and Research Performance of Recent PhD Graduates from Dutch Universities. PLoS

ONE 11(10): e0164784. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164784

-- (2016) Cathelijn J. F. Waaijer • Rosalie Belder • Hans Sonneveld • Cornelis A. van Bochove • Inge C. M. van der Weijden:

Temporary contracts: effect on job satisfaction and personal lives of recent PhD graduates.

-- (2016) Hans Sonneveld: Selection and admission of doctoral candidates. Manual for Doctoral Programs, Graduate and

Research Schools.

-- (2014) Hans Sonneveld (ed.) & EEMCS supervisors, Supervisors at work! Guidance of PhD candidates at the Graduate

School of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (TU Delft). Graduate School EEMCS.

-- (2013) Rens van de Schoot, Mara A.Yerkes, Jolien M.Mouw, Hans Sonneveld, What Took Them So Long? Explaining PhD

Delays among Doctoral Candidates, PLoS ONE 8(7), July 23, 2013.

Work in progress.

* Good Practice Principles for Graduate Schools in the Netherlands, brochure and website pages.

* Code of conduct for PhD students and their supervisors, brochure and website pages.

* The art of being grandfather and grandmother (book)

Relevant Previous Occupation(s):

Director of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (1988 – 2006, University of Amsterdam)

Lecturer Research Master Program in Law (2010 – Sep 2014, Tilburg University, Law School)

Director of Studies. Research Master Program in Law (Jan 2010 – Sep 2011)

Researcher and trainer in the field of doctoral programs (IVLOS, Utrecht University, 2006 – 2010)