Doctoral programme of the UPF Doctoral School, governed by Royal Decree 99/2011
Duration of the doctoral programme
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Your doctoral thesis must be submitted within three academic years as of admission, with the possibility of an extension of one further year. |
| Languages |
English
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| Places available |
15 |
Organized
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Department of Political and Social Sciences
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| Calendar and time schedule |
The training period is from September to July and the training activities take place, in preference, after 3pm.
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| Location |
Ciutadella campus
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PhD programme's academic website
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http://www.upf.edu/dcpis/en/doctorado/
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Excellence Group: Political Science
CHE EXCELLENCE RANKING 2009
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This doctorate has been awarded a
Mention of Quality by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.
Presentation
The doctorate programme in Political and Social Sciences seeks to train researchers and analysts of the different areas and disciplines of the political and social sciences via the study of the concepts and the methodology of research and analysis pertaining to these disciplines. The aim is to combine in-depth knowledge of the main contemporary political and social theories with developing the necessary analytical, methodological and technical skills as to perform quality research, set right in the centre of the very latest international academic debate. It is an international programme and is fully adapted to the European Higher Education Area.
Objectives
- To train advanced researchers and analysts in the field of political and social sciences.
- To train specialists in the department's fields of research corresponding to the areas of knowledge of political sciences and administration, and sociology and demography.
- To develop new, innovative lines in the fields of the Department's research.
- To develop general competencies to improve doctoral students' future employment opportunities.
Contents
- Seminar on Research Tools(5 ECTS credits)
- Seminars on Research Design (5 ECTS credits)
- Defence of the Thesis Project (5 ECTS credits)
The programme shall offer two seminars on research design with complementary contents with the aim of covering the research needs of the department's different lines of research, of which the student must take compulsorily one of them.
The training programme strengthens the methodological tools available to students and their abilities, and provides them with the chance to attend courses to gain greater expertise in the field of discipline in which they wish to read their doctoral thesis.
Lines of research of the doctorate
Citizens and political action
- Political culture and public opinion
- Political participation
- Electoral studies
Democracy, plurinational societies, federalism and immigration
- Political legitimisation and governance in plurinational democracies
- Federal systems: political theory and comparative perspective
- Political theory of immigration and the management of diversity
Public policy
- Study and analysis of the welfare state
- Social public policy
- Regulatory policies and institutions
- Government and the information society
- Public management and administration
Sociodemographics
- Social and economic inequalities
- Sociology of the family
- Labour market and occupational studies
Statistics and survey methodology
- Improving measurement in survey methodology
- Statistical aspects of the models of structural equations
- Reliability and validity of the measuring instruments in survey methodology
