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The past years, non-academic hospitals have increasingly started to focus on research. Though an increasing number of employees within these ‘peripheral’ hospitals are working part time or full time on (biomedical) research, good representation of this group has been lacking.

The Dutch PhD Network (PNN) has received with disappointment the subdistrict court's ruling in the case brought by 48 MD/PhD grant-bearing PhD candidates against the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG).

The Dutch PhD Network (PNN) has reacted with shock to the situation at Tilburg University (TiU), where a PhD candidate was denied her doctorate for unclear reasons before Christmas based on her dissertation defense. Chair Meaghan Polack: "It's unbelievable that this is happening at a knowledge institution. This sets an undesirable precedent in Dutch academia."

Since its founding in 1987, PNN has represented PhD candidates in the Netherlands. We are proud to share our plans for 2022.