- Presentation
- Training activities
- What do we research on?
- Research lines
- PhD supervisors
- Admission and registration
- Assessment
- Financial aid and tuition fees
- Quality and indicators
- DOCTORAL THESES
- Programme coordination
| Dr Carlos Lorenzo Merino | carlos.lorenzo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat |
- Programme Academic Committee
| Dr Carlos Lorenzo Merino (president) | Dr José Pedro Rodríguez Álvarez (secretary) | |
| Dr Ethel A. Allué Martí | Dr Robert Sala Ramos | |
| Dr Maria Gema Chacón Navarro |
- Offer
| Places available | 15 |
- Languages
- Catalan
- Spanish
- English
- Introduction and objectives
The main aim of doctoral studies is to train students to carry out high-quality advanced research. The general objectives of this doctoral programme are the following:
- To incorporate the doctoral students in a research group.
- To broaden the students' abilities so that they can specialise intensively in the research lines defined by the programme.
- To foster initiative in undertaking research projects with the methodology and the scientific principles of the research line in which they are working.
- To promote the acquisition of general skills related to personal and group work, participation in research projects, management of bibliographic databases, etc.
- To train students to acquire the capacity for archaeological management.
- To develop strategies for dissemination and communication of science.
- To prepare the doctoral thesis.
- Entry profile
The appropriate entry profile of the candidates who access the doctoral programme is related to the fields that can potentially take part in the study of Quaternary and Prehistory. Due to the multidisciplinary character of this field, the specific entry profile of the programme involves holders of a Master's degree or equivalent in any of the research and knowledge fields that are related to the Quaternary archaeology, human evolution and human paleoecology: archaeology, geology, biology, palaeontology, ecology, history, heritage management, restoration and conservation of patrimonial assets.
- Career opportunities
Students who successfully complete the doctoral programme will be able to work in the following areas:
- Research in research centres and national and international universities in the fields of prehistory, human evolution and quaternary, and their respective specialities.
- University teaching.
- Socialisation of science in museums, education companies and other public and/or private companies teaching prehistory and cultural and heritage management.
- Preventive archaeology in national and international companies or public bodies.