Withdrawal of resources and de-registration

After admission, resources and registration are decoupled from financing: you don’t stop being a doctoral student if you run out of financing without having graduated, and you don’t lose your resources either. 

According to HEO (6 Ch. 30§), a doctoral student who seriously violates their side of the commitments in the Individual Study Plan can lose their resources (supervision, access to lab equipment etc). This is a lengthy and rigorous process, which should consider whether the university has met its own commitments in the Individual Study Plan and should give the doctoral student and the supervisors the chance to be heard on the topic. The decision is made by the vice-chancellor, and a written record needs to be made, including the reasons for the decision.

Doctoral students who have had their resources withdrawn can appeal the decision at the Higher Education Appeal Board. There is case law available on their website (in Swedish) which illustrates how such appeals are considered.   

Should such a situation arise, you can ask the Ombudsperson for doctoral students, your student union, or your trade union, for help and advice, with both the withdrawal process and the appeal.

Withdrawal of resources does not imply de-registration, or expulsion. You remain registered as a doctoral student and have the possibility to defend a doctoral thesis. (However, if your resources have been withdrawn you may have to cover the costs of the defense yourself.)

You can later apply to the vice-chancellor to have your resources re-instated through a special judgement (HEO, ch. 6 P31). You would need to argue convincingly that you can fulfill the commitments in your ISP.