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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.

The programme below shows the compulsory courses.

1st year

10 ECTS + Academic English

The course is divided into 4 modules:
Module 1: Time
Module 2: Space
Module 3: Matters of scale
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:
  • Societies, resources and economies: an environmental history approach
  • The lexicon of cultural history
  • Looks at women, looks from women
  • City is a plural concept
  • Religion, society, history
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
    • Three-Minute-Thesis Competition

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:
  • Societies, resources and economies: an environmental history approach
  • The lexicon of cultural history
  • Looks at women, looks from women
  • City is a plural concept
  • Religion, society, history
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

Here you can download the detailed teaching programme for the 40th cycle, a.y. 2024-25, where you will also find the contents and the learning goals of each course.