Admission criteria
Profile for admission
In order to access the doctoral programme, students must preferably have a master's qualification in feminist or gender studies from any Spanish or foreign university, or at least have completed a high number of specific credits.
They must also present a research project, including the following information: subject of study, objectives/hypotheses or research questions, theoretical framework, methodology, timeline and bibliography.
The body that will be responsible for admission is the Doctoral programme's Academic Commission.
This doctorate does not establish any specific supplementary training. However, bearing in mind that access is open to graduates corresponding to graduate's degrees or higher, with at least 300 ECTS credits, whose studies may not have included any specific content in research training, the Academic Committee of the program will study the cases of each of the students, depending on their entry profiles, to decide on the need to acquire this research training. The training will be acquired by means of completing 6-15 ECTS credits in subjects of official master's degrees offered by the UPV/EHU in the area (specify area) or any other equivalent training with regard to research skills, for which students will enrol, on the advice of the tutors and thesis directors, once they have enrolled on the doctoral program.
The applicant will contact the person responsible for the doctorate, to whom he or she will send a CV accrediting any graduate's and postgraduate training.The marks obtained in the theoretical credits and the master's dissertation, language skills and work and organizational experience in keeping with the lines of research of the doctorate will also be taken into account.The application will be studied and, if appropriate, approved at a meeting of the Academic Committee.
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Procedure for assigning a faculty member as a doctoral thesis tutor and director
Once a student has been accepted onto the doctoral programme, the Academic Commission will assign them a tutor from among the faculty at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) participating in the programme, who will then be responsible for ensuring good interaction with the Academic Commission and adapting the training and research activities to the principles established by the programme and the Doctorate School.
Within three months of enrolment, the Academic Commission will assign each student a thesis director from among the faculty participating in the programme. The director may or may or not be the same person as the tutor, and will be responsible for guiding and ensuring the consistency of the training and research tasks, and guaranteeing that the topic of the thesis have an impact and make a novel contribution to the field. They are also responsible for guiding the thesis plan and adapting it, if required, to other projects and activities in which the PhD student is involved.
If the director is not a member of the faculty at the UPV/EHU, the tutor will act as a liaison.
Doctoral theses may also be co-directed, and the second co-director may or may not be a member of the DP. New tutors or directors may be assigned at any moment during the thesis.
For more information, see the procedures and rules.