Public notification of the defence must be made well in advance and the doctoral thesis must also be available at the university from this date in a sufficient number of copies to allow a satisfactory examination of the thesis at the public defence. (HF 1993:100, Chapter 6, §41)
The notification is published automatically in the DiVA database, provided you have registered your details well in advance of the public notification date.
Regulations for education and summative assessment at third-cycle level
* The expression "to nail a thesis" is derived from the occasion on which Martin Luther nailed the content of his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg in 1517.