Doctoral Defence - Eija Meriläinen

Place
Online
Doctoral student Eija Meriläinen defends her doctoral thesis in Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility: Urban Disaster Governance Resilience and Rights in the Unequal City

Opponent and university: Anja Nygren – University of Helsinki
Chair: Jaakko Aspara

The complete doctoral thesis can be found here.

The pressrelease with more information on the defence can be found here.

The doctoral defence will be held by video conference.

Access to the video conference in ¨Teams¨ can be found here
The video conference opens at May 8 at 9 a.m.  

An online doctoral defence principally follows the same guidelines as a traditional physical doctoral defence. During the video conference a few special guidelines apply to the audience:

  • access to the video conference starts at 9.00  
  • preferable to join the meeting before 9.15 when the defence starts
  • during the defence, the audience’s microphones are muted, cameras are turned off, recording is not allowed, and the chat function is not to be used until permitted by the Custos.
  • members of the audience who wish to make comments concerning the thesis can to ask Madam/Mr Custos for the floor in the chat function that opens after the opponent finishes.