Annual planning
The doctoral programme training programme consists of an annual plan in which transversal and specific activities are combined.
- Transversal activity: scientific and technical conferences on heritage.
- Transversal activity: field work.
- Specific courses.
- Transversal activity: research seminar.
- Doctoral research seminars (compulsory)
- Specific courses.
The training programme is complemented by the activities planned by the Doctoral School.
Training activities that form part of the doctoral programme
A specific training activity, of a compulsory and annual nature, is participation in the Research Monitoring Seminars. These seminars are conceived as an oral presentation by each PhD student on the status and progress of their thesis project (approach, lines of work carried out to date, results obtained, problems encountered, publications, attendance at conferences, stays, etc.).
The presentation consists of a public event in which the PhD student presents, using the audiovisual media he/she considers appropriate, the most relevant aspects of the status and progress of his/her research for a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 15 minutes, and the public may debate with him/her for a further maximum of 15 minutes.
The audience for the presentation is the Programme Coordinator and/or other members of the Academic Committee, the Director and/or Tutor, other lecturers on the Programme and other doctoral students.
Seminars may be held in person or virtually (in this case by live videoconference).
In each academic year there are two annual sessions, one in the first four-month period (preferably in January) and another in the second (June), which the Academic Secretary of the Programme informs of in advance, and doctoral students may sign up for one or the other.
Each doctoral student must participate as a speaker in one seminar each academic year, and may voluntarily attend other seminars as a listener. In both cases, attendance will be recognised by means of a certificate, which will count as a training activity in the student's academic record.
- Transversal information and management activities related to research activity (scientific articles, project management, research career, institutions of interest) with the collaboration of guest researchers, professionals and lecturers of the PhD programme.
- The doctoral coordinator will monitor the attendance and participation of doctoral students, ensuring that this is included in the activities document of each doctoral student.
- Full-time doctoral students must participate in them, while part-time doctoral students may choose between this or another of the training activities.
- Workshops oriented towards participation in a research project, directed by a lecturer from the PhD programme or by a guest researcher. The tasks of acquiring and processing information, applying appropriate methods and techniques, discussing the results and drawing conclusions will be carried out.
- Both full-time and part-time doctoral students must participate in at least one workshop during their research period.
- The doctoral coordinator will monitor the attendance and participation of doctoral students, ensuring that this is included in the activities document of each doctoral student.
- Courses aimed at scientific, social, artistic or cultural advancement and the systematic understanding of the field of study and the mastery of research skills and methods related to this field. The PhD programme will design this offer, favouring the participation of researchers from outside the doctoral programme or national or international collaborators who contribute new visions and topics that differ from those dealt with in the seminars.
- Both full-time and part-time doctoral students must participate in at least one course during their research period.
- The doctoral coordinator will monitor the attendance and participation of doctoral students, ensuring that this is included in the activities document of each doctoral student.
- Participation in congresses or scientific meetings, presenting a paper and participating in the scientific activity under the supervision of the thesis supervisor or tutor. These congresses will be organised within the framework of the departmental programme or outside it.
- The doctoral coordinator, together with the doctoral committee, will control the appropriateness of the congress or scientific meeting, which will preferably be of an international nature, as well as the attendance and participation of the doctoral students, ensuring its inclusion in the activities document of each doctoral student.
- The PhD student must participate in at least one conference related to the PhD programme during the research period.
- Participation in an exchange or stay at a foreign research centre linked to the doctoral student’s thesis topic and participating in the scientific activity of this centre in coordination with the thesis supervisor or tutor.
- The doctoral coordinator, in consultation with the director or tutor, will monitor the suitability of the centre and the activity to be carried out, as well as the attendance and participation of the doctoral students, ensuring that this is included in the activities document for each doctoral student.
- All doctoral students, whether full or part-time, must undertake at least one stay during their time on the doctoral programme.