Once enrolled in the programme, a personalised activity document will be created for each doctoral student for the purposes of the individualised control register referred to in article 2.5 of Royal Decree 99/2011. The Activity Document (DA) is managed through the Doctoral Management application. All activities carried out by the doctoral student will be recorded in the DA. The tutor and/or thesis supervisor will include the annual reports in the Student Activity Document and the Academic Committee will include the annual evaluations, always in accordance with the codes of "good practices in research" and "for the supervision of doctoral theses at the Uva", in force at the School for Doctoral Studies.
The activities and the activities document will be reviewed regularly, and at least once a year, by the tutor and the thesis supervisor, and evaluated by the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Programme in order to check whether the student is progressing in the acquisition of the competences of the Doctoral Programme. The Academic Committee of the PhD Programme will evaluate the Research Plan and the activities document together with the reports to be issued annually by the tutor and the supervisor for this purpose. A positive evaluation will be a prerequisite for continuing on the programme. In the event of a negative evaluation, which will be duly justified, the doctoral student must be re-evaluated within a period of six months, for which purpose a new research plan must be drawn up. In the event of a new negative evaluation, the doctoral student will be permanently withdrawn from the programme.
The regulations for the presentation and defence of doctoral theses at the University of Valladolid require the existence of a publication prior to the presentation of the thesis, and the tribunals must be made up of three members.
- As quality criteria for publication prior to submission of the thesis (mandatory as of 1 October 2017) the programme requires a publication in one of the media listed in the following document.
- For the selection of external evaluators of the Doctoral Thesis, given that the tribunal is only composed of three members, the Academic Academic Academic Committee will select 2 external experts from a previous selection of five possible experts, who will evaluate the thesis and may request changes to which the doctoral student must respond, with modifications that will be re-evaluated by the external experts.