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Starting from the 40th cycle a.y. 2024-25, the AVA 3 model (Self-Assessment, Periodic Assessment, Accreditation) will also be applied to the Doctorates, in line with Ministerial Decree 226/2021.

The quality assurance system introduces the credit system also in the training provided by the PhD courses. PhD students have to obtain 60 ECTS each year, for a total of 240 ECTS over the four-year period. For the PhD Programme in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies, the equivalence of 1 ECTS = 6 teaching hours has been introduced.

If you want to know more about the courses planned for the 2025-26 year

 

The programme below shows the compulsory courses.

1st year

9 ECTS

The course is divided into 3 modules:
Module 1: Time
Module 2: Space
Module 4: Connections
  • How to write a book review
  • Bibliographical tools, the use of Zotero, open data and open sources
1 workshop on your choice among the following:
  • Historical GIS (basic course)
  • Quantitative methods in research
2 seminars on your choice among the following:
  • Beyond the nature-culture dichotomy: approaches, histories and places of conservation
  • Cultural memory. Definitions, methodologies, and case-studies
  • Colonial Questions: Historical and Anthropological Approaches
Reading and presentation of the chosen classic (1 classic per discipline with an interdisciplinary approach). The seminars will be organised by the PhD students under the guidance of a lecturer
Academic English course organised by the University of Padova Language Centre
  • Inaugural lecture
  • Introduction to Departments and libraries
  • Seminars of Phd students on doctoral research progress
  • Summer school

2nd year

6 ECTS

How to write a PhD thesis
1 workshop on your choice among the following:
  • Historical GIS (basic course)
  • Quantitative methods in research
  • Historical GIS (advanced course)
  • Digital Humanities
1 seminar on your choice among the following:
  • Beyond the nature-culture dichotomy: approaches, histories and places of conservation
  • Cultural memory. Definitions, methodologies, and case-studies
  • Colonial Questions: Historical and Anthropological Approaches
4 seminars with external lecturers and experts, debates, presentation of doctoral students' research, every 3 years a meeting to present the main journals in a specific field
Reading of the classics (1 classic per discipline with an interdisciplinary approach) and active participation in the debate.
  • Inaugural lecture
  • Seminars of Phd students on doctoral research progress
  • Summer school

3rd year

4 ECTS

  • How to present a scientific research
  • How to write an article and submit it, how to apply for a cfp and how to perform a review
4 seminars with external lecturers and experts, debates, presentation of doctoral students' research, every 3 years a meeting to present the main journals in a specific field
Three-Minute Thesis Competition

4th year

4 ECTS

  • Post-doc research opportunities
  • How to draft a post-doc project
4 seminars with external lecturers and experts, debates, presentation of doctoral students' research, every 3 years a meeting to present the main journals in a specific field