Best Doctorate Degrees in Spain 2019/2020

The Doctorate in Territory and Society. Historical Evolution of a Tricontinental Space (Africa, America and Europe) (DOCTESO), is the result of the synergy of researchers who develop their work in the fields of geography, history, archeology, the study of religions and sciences social, of the Faculties of Geography and History of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and of the University of La Laguna (ULL).

It is a transversal program with an interdisciplinary vocation focused on the following lines of research:

The PhD Program in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering presented comes from the rigorous adaptation of the PhD Program in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Quality Mention of the MEC since 2004 (MCD 2004/00261), which also obtained the Mention for Excellence in the year 2011 (MEE2011-0426).

The social context in which the program is developed is that of a community with a scarce industrial fabric, in which there are 224 companies within the chemical industry concept, 97 in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and 127 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, according to the directory of companies.

These companies range from the manufacture of paints and varnishes to dietetic products, the largest group being dedicated to the "manufacture of soaps, detergents and other articles of cleaning and polishing. Manufacture of perfumes and beauty and hygiene products "... [-]

The Master in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology constitutes the period of formation of the Doctorate in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The universities of Valencia, Alicante, Jaume I, La Laguna and Castilla La Mancha participate in this doctorate.

This doctoral program has the Mention to Excellence (MEE2011-0370) granted by the General Secretariat of Universities of the Ministry of Education according to Resolution of October 6, 2011.

In recent years, certain scientific areas such as supramolecular chemistry, molecular biology, surface physics and low temperatures have reached a remarkable development in our country. Research groups have been formed that have achieved an excellent competitive position in the international area. In addition, in a natural way, the very object of research of these disciplines has been converging towards what is called Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Of the strategic importance in R & D of these areas, it is worth noting that these have been prioritized in all the National, European and International Programs of all the developed countries. In these physical areas, chemists, biologists, doctors and engineers are in charge of obtaining, manipulating, organizing, studying and taking advantage of the properties of nano-sized objects. Maintaining today and in the future a truly competitive international position in some areas of Nanoscience, however, requires a level of competence that can only be achieved with a thematic focus and with adequate training of research staff that allows them to acquire the multidisciplinary knowledge that these areas they need.... [-]

Integration of the PD in the strategy of research and doctoral training of universities: All universities include in their Statutes and in their strategic plans the desire to promote research, both basic and applied, through specific research programs. Therefore, the training of researchers and the transfer of knowledge are the foundation of their teaching and the means for the scientific, technical and cultural development of society. All of them promote cooperation with other universities and scientific and cultural institutions, as well as participation in public research plans.

Thus, in the document entitled "Strategy in research and doctoral training", approved in the Governing Council of February 29, 2012 - according to the Regional Strategy for Scientific Research, Technological Development and Innovation (ERIDI) 2007 # 2013- se points out that it is the fundamental mission of the University of Salamanca to promote and coordinate research. Therefore, the training of researchers and the transfer of knowledge are the foundation of their teaching and the means for the scientific, technical and cultural development of society.... [-]

The doctoral program that is presented has the purpose of training, in the context of Naval, Marine and Naval Radioelectronics Engineering, of highly qualified researchers trained for innovation and for the advancement of knowledge in that field, which can be fully integrated into the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Research Area (ERA).

The doctoral program that is presented has the purpose of training, in the context of Naval, Marine and Naval Radioelectronics Engineering, of highly qualified researchers trained for innovation and for the advancement of knowledge in that field, which can be fully integrated into the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Research Area (ERA).... [-]

Six Spanish universities (University of Alicante, University of Almería, University of Castilla-La Mancha, University of La Laguna, University of Zaragoza, University of Murcia) carry out a strategic alliance in order to design an Interuniversity PhD Program, which serve to add teachers and researchers around research teams and Projects with greater impact and excellence.

PhD studies in the philosophical field have a long tradition at the University of La Laguna. In fact, the current Program: "Philosophy, Culture and Society", integrated within its Official Graduate Program of the same name, and which deserved the Mention of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Education (Resolution of October 6, 2011 , Reference MEE2011-0739, BOE of October 20, 2011) for the 2011/12 courses; 2012/2013 and 2013/2014, has its immediate antecedents in the Doctoral program "Epistemology and Practical Philosophy", in force during the biennium 1999-2001, 2000-2002, 2001-2003 and 2002-2005 and in the Doctoral Program " Philosophy. Theory and Praxis in the Present World "taught since 2004.... [-]

The most recent research has shown how in many fields of scientific knowledge, from the humanities to medicine, through the social sciences and engineering, sex and gender variables are insufficiently considered. Stereotypes and biases persist in research and technological developments, which often build as a universal norm what are the realities, experiences and expectations of a group of people, mostly males, mostly white and of a certain economic level, and they consider the realities of other people as deviations from the norm. Science, like any other field of human activity, is not free from the cultural and social determinants of its time. Gender stereotypes, and the lower social value of women are often transferred to a stereotyped and lesser consideration of their specific realities, whether of a social or biological nature, in research.... [-]

The PhD Program in Regional Development proposed is the result of the adaptation of the current Doctoral Program in Regional Development, Training and Employment, distinguished with the Quality Mention according to Resolution of October 20, 2008, of the Secretary of State for Universities, which grants the Quality Mention to the doctoral studies of the Spanish universities for the academic year 2008-2009.

Program Background

The PhD Program in Regional Development proposed is the result of the adaptation of the current Doctoral Program in Regional Development, Training and Employment, distinguished with the Quality Mention according to Resolution of October 20, 2008, of the Secretary of State for Universities, which grants the Quality Mention to the doctoral studies of the Spanish universities for the academic year 2008-2009. In turn, the Regional Development, Training and Employment Program resulted from the adaptation of the Training, Employment and Regional Development Program, with Quality Mention of the Ministry of Education and Science in the 2004 call, in line with the initial reform of the studies within the framework of the European Convergence in the field of higher education, and has its genesis in the late 1990s. It is on this date that, taking advantage of the practical experience in doctoral programs, the doctors professors of the Department of Economics of the Institutions, Economic Statistics and Econometrics of the University of La Laguna considered the elaboration of a program that surpasses the conception that, in that moment, predominated in the doctoral programs, and that translated that... [-]

The Doctoral Program in Law, Society and Tourism presented here to be taught in accordance with RD 99/2011, integrates, substitutes and expands the scientific field of the current Doctoral Program in Tourism implemented by agreement of the Canary Islands Government Council. February 10, 2011 (BOC No.33 of February 15, 2011), and enrolled in the Register of Universities, Centers and Titles.

The Doctoral Program that is proposed is developed from the Doctorate in Tourism, currently in force at the University of La Laguna since February 2011. This program was organized through five main lines of research, although the work is often linked to several of these lines. These lines have an interdisciplinary emphasis. The five main lines of research were as follows:... [-]

Doctoral studies in the field of biology have a long tradition at the University of La Laguna. The Biodiversity and Conservation program is supported by lines and research teams consolidated, with high scientific production and training capacity. It offers a wide coverage of doctoral training in different branches of Biology, Environment and Conservation, both in the terrestrial and marine. It will contribute to the promotion of the employability of highly qualified personnel in an area of ​​social interest, through the professional development of postdoctoral researchers, training of teaching staff and university researchers, as well as management personnel. The study of Biodiversity and Conservation is one of the three strategic areas of the ULL (Campus of International Excellence - Atlantic Intercontinental Campus - Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, 2010).... [-]

The Doctorate Program in Arts and Humanities of the ULL is a graduate post-graduate program aimed at training researchers in linguistic and cultural studies. It involves the departments of Fine Arts, Classical, French, Arabic and Romance Philology, Spanish Philology, English and German Philology and History of Art and Philosophy; and it covers the areas of knowledge related to linguistics and the Arabic, Spanish, French, Greek, English, Latin and Romance philologies, their cultures and literatures, and music, art and design, their production, theory and history.

This broad field of knowledge is structured in two broad lines: linguistic studies (Line 1) and philological, literary and cultural studies (line 2), but it is specified in an annual offer of supervised research lines that can be consulted on the program page.... [-]

The program of Doctorate in Psychology by the ULL has the purpose of training doctors in different fields of psychology. Through the doctoral program, students will be able to obtain theoretical, technical and practical knowledge necessary for advanced research in four main areas: Clinical and Health Psychology, Neuroscience of Cognition and Emotions, Language Psychology, Education and Methodology, and Family, Social and Community Intervention and Mediation.

The Doctorate Program in Psychology that is presented here to be taught according to RD 99/2011, integrates the different doctoral programs in force and in extinction of the Faculty of Psychology. in a single doctoral program. This previous experience in the delivery of doctoral programs with similar characteristics to the one presented here comes from the conversion of previous doctoral programs with a Quality Mention and that some of them received a favorable report from the ANECA in order to obtain the Mention to Excellence in its first call as described below.... [-]

Precedents in doctoral training of the proposed program and data about the potential demand of the program

The adaptation of Spanish university training in all its cycles to the EHEA requires the conversion of postgraduate and doctoral studies; The Faculty of Education of the ULL, in the spirit of responding to these changes, began to adapt its training offer, since the beginning of the process (2008), and currently has a Doctorate Program in force - although in process Transformation - which includes all the official masters currently taught in the Faculty of Education, 2 in operation (Master Psychopedagogical Intervention in formal and non-formal contexts and Teacher Training Master in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching), 1 approved by the ANECA and in the process of implementation, Master in ICT and Education: Training and learning in digital environments, and 3 more viable and in different phases of the verification process (Master of Advanced Pedagogical Studies, Master in Human Development and Sustainability, Master in Innovation in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education). Although, in the future, any master that is offered from the faculty of education, will also be an itinerary of direct access to the Doctoral Program that is presented.... [-]

One of the essential objectives for the economic and social development of the Canary Islands is the promotion of research and training in areas related to engineering and new technologies. The aim is to consolidate a scientific and technological system that promotes economic development and facilitates the shift towards a production model based on knowledge.

The program that is presented makes a contribution in this sense offering 4 lines of research of undoubted interest for a student with concerns in the scientific and technological field: Industrial engineering, electronic technology and communications; Automatic and system engineering; Computer systems and computation and Observation and modeling of the Earth-Atmosphere system. All the lines are backed by consolidated research teams and with an important international projection that guarantee the quality of the training for the doctoral student.... [-]

This proposal proposes an interdisciplinary doctorate whose itineraries in specific areas of specialization allow the formation of PhD students in different areas of knowledge (Fundamental Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematical Transfer, Information Technologies, among others). At present, scientific production and training capacity of researchers of different groups in the field of Computer Science, Mathematics, Mathematical Models and Techniques Statistics suggest the creation of a specific program of doctorate, with its own identity, which allows consolidation and transfer research activity in this area.

The applicant university doctoral program in Mathematics and Statistics is the University of Zaragoza (UZ).... [-]