PhDplanner is a free toolkit built for doctoral students in Sweden. It brings the scattered, practical parts of a PhD into one place: finding the right courses, planning the dissertation defence, mapping the literature, running quick statistics, and understanding your rights as a doctoral candidate. Everything works in the browser, with no installation, and the core tools are free to use.
Courses360 aggregates more than 1,000 doctoral courses from over half of Sweden's universities into a single searchable index. Filter by subject, institution, location, credits, and application deadline so you can build PhD coursework that actually fits your timeline and research direction.
The Defence Planner turns your defence date into a personalised timeline of milestones, from manuscript submission and opponent nomination to printing the thesis and the public defence itself. Track each task and receive automated email reminders so nothing slips in the final months.
LinkedPapers reveals how publications connect through citations and semantic similarity from a single DOI, while StatBox provides instant calculators for sample size, effect size, power, and statistical test selection. Both are designed for the day-to-day decisions of doctoral research.
The PhD Rights Handbook explains the rights every doctoral student in Sweden should understand, covering supervision, financing, work environment, leave, and academic matters, with practical guidance and red flags to watch for.