Objectives and competencies

Objectives

The PhD programme in Cultural and Natural Heritage. History, Art and Territory pursues the following objectives:

  •  To bring together the capacities and potential of UVa research groups, making possible a quality offer for the training of researchers, as a boost to the scientific, technical and cultural development of society.
  • To train doctoral students PhDs with specialised and up-to-date knowledge of the main approaches and working techniques in the study of cultural and natural heritage, as well as global training in heritage, integrating the specialisation of research groups and the critical mass participating in the PhD programme.
  • To provide global, multidisciplinary and specialised training based on the elements that bring together the research groups:
    • Natural heritage: training related to that part of nature that has acquired a cultural value as a heritage of past conditions or processes and present dynamics that have a relevant environmental, landscape, scientific or cultural value.
    • Archaeological heritage: research training that will allow the PhD student to analyse theories and models and their practical links with the elaboration, analysis and development of projects applicable to scientific research in archaeological heritage, with training for cooperation in the design of projects, management or conservation of heritage.
    • Historical-artistic heritage: training for the analysis, study and research of the different artistic manifestations, immovable and movable, as well as another series of aspects, material and immaterial (photography, cinema, digital image), permanent or ephemeral (festivals, devotions, fashion, etc.), which are developed through the arts and which have in the past contributed - or which continue to do so - to the development of a cultural heritage of interest, whose knowledge and valuation will help to safeguard and conserve it, or to study and maintain the memory of what has disappeared.
    • Historical and cultural heritage of the Americas: research training in the study of tangible and intangible assets of high cultural value in the relations between Europe and the Americas, as well as the relations between the natural environment and the various American cultures, or the results of the historical evolution of the continent.
    • Territorial heritage and landscape: to train doctoral students in an integrated and comprehensive vision of the heritage (natural, historical, cultural, and ethnological) immersed in the territory occupied by a given society, acquiring knowledge of territorial heritage as a determining factor in sustainable rural and urban development.

Competencies and skills