The annual report 2018

Recruitment and grant activities
for PhD
The PhD scholarship programme
In December 2018, the DDA granted 12 PhD 2/3-financed PhD
scholarships. See Appendix 16a for a list of grants recipients
including project titles, educational background, affiliation
and name of principal supervisors.
The success ratio was similar for males and females (Table 4)
whereas the success ratio was almost the double for applicants
with an educational background of Master of Science as
compared to applicants with a medical degree (Table 5).
16,2%
The DDA received 74
applications and the
success ratio was 16.2%.
The DDA received applications from applicants applying for
enrolment at nine different faculties at the Danish universities.
As shown in Table 6, the majority of grants (67%) were granted
to applicants applying for enrolment at the Faculty of Health,
University of Copenhagen.
Table 6. Overview of applications for DDA PhD
scholarships 2018 according to place of enrolment
Gender Applications (n) Granted (n) Success ratio (%)
Aarhus University,
Health
10 (14 %) 1 (8%) 10
Table 4. Overview of applications for DDA
PhD scholarships 2018 according to gender
University of Southern
Denmark, Health
University of Southern
Denmark, Science
9 (12 %) 3 (25%) 33.3
3 (4 %) 0 (0%) 0
Gender Applications (n) Granted (n) Success ratio (%)
University of
Copenhagen, Health
35 (47 %) 8 (67%) 22.8
Male 24 (32%) 4 (33%) 16.7
University of
Copenhagen, Science
8 (11 %) 0 (0%) 0
Female 50 (68%) 8 (66%) 16.0
Aalborg University,
Health and Technology
5 (7 %) 0 (0%) 0
Aalborg University,
Engineering and Science
1 (1 %) 0 (0%) 0
Table 5. Overview of applications for DDA PhD
scholarships 2018 according to educational background
Technical University
of Denmark
2 (3 %) 0 (0%) 0
Education Applications (n) Granted (n) Success ratio (%)
Roskilde University 1 (1 %) 0 (0%) 0
Master of Science 54 (73%) 10 (83%) 18.5
Medical doctor 20 (27%) 2 (17%) 10.0
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