PhD in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Academic year 2024-25
You may also check this information for the 2023-24 academic year.
Branch of Knowledge | Social and Legal Sciences |
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Certification UIB coordinator | Dra. Victoria A. Ferrer Pérez |
Inter-university Doctoral Degree | (See the technical details for more details) |
Tuition and admin fees per academic year | ¤275.60 (*) |
Teaching language |
Catalan and/or Spanish and/or English, although the PhD thesis may be written in other languages which are widely used within the scientific community.
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The most recent research has shown how many fields of scientific knowledge—from the humanities to medicine, to social sciences and engineering—insufficiently account for sex and gender variables. Stereotypes and biases persist in research and technological developments, which are often construed as a universal standard when they are actually realities, experiences and expectations from a group of mostly white males with a certain economic standing, and deem the realities of other individuals as deviations from the norm. As with any other field of human activity, science is not free from the cultural and social conditioning of its era. Gender stereotypes and lower social consideration that women are subject to often translate into a stereotyped and inferior consideration of their specific realities within research, whether social or biological.
The field of gender studies has contributed to revealing and discovering hitherto unexplored areas of reality, whilst reducing bias and errors in concepts and theories.
This proposed PhD in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies responds and meets the demand for the scientific policy developed and supported by the European Union and Spanish legislation for over a decade, which urgently and necessarily requires appropriate training at the highest level of academe. Only training with a specific focus on research will be able to provide the necessary expert scientific analysis to consolidate the aforementioned scientific and research policies.
Moreover, this is an interuniversity PhD programme with participation from the University of La Laguna, University of Alicante, University of Alcalá, University of the Balearic Islands, University of Huelva, University Jaume I of Castellón, Univeristy Rey Juan Carlos and the Autonomous University of Madrid, which is also the coordinating centre for the PhD programme.
What skills will you acquire?
The PhD in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies is a new never-before-seen approach in Spanish academe. The main aim is to train expert researchers in gender studies who respond and meet the demand for the scientific policy developed and supported by the European Union and Spanish legislation for over a decade, which urgently and necessarily requires appropriate training at the highest level of academe.
What career opportunities will you have?
Future doctors in interdisciplinary gender studies will be able to undertake a research career at research centres or an academic career combining research and teaching at university. They may also perform applied research on R&D&i projects at public institutions or businesses with regard to equal opportunities for women and men, gender-based violence prevention or advice and consulting services in these fields.
Travel and Learn
Please see 'Useful information > Grants, awards and general aid' for information on available grants, and 'Management of doctoral students > Procedures > Mobility and exchange' for information on how to apply for a stay.
Stays undertaken on the PhD programme by doctoral students
Year | Place | Duration |
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2019 | Madrid, Spain | 21 days |
2018 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 4 months |
High-quality official study
Legislation requires that official Spanish degree programmes receive a positive assessment from the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA, by its Spanish acronym). This process is known as verification, and it serves to ensure that education programmes are properly designed to provide the competencies and reach the learning goals around which the programmes are built.
The European Higher Education Area requires that there be a system in place to ensure the quality of degree programmes.
The doctorate programme is subject to constant assessment and improvement processes that guarantee that it maintains a certain level of prestige and renown in Europe. You can see the results of the assessment processes in the results section.
Composition of the Academic Committee
- Eva Cifre Gallego – Universitat Jaume I de Castelló
- M. del Pilar Matud Aznar. Universidad de La Laguna
- Ana de Miguel Álvarez – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Encarnación Carmona Cuenca – Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
- Eulalia Pérez Sedeño – CISIC
- Mónica Moreno Seco – Universidad de Alicante
- Pilar Cúder Domínguez – Universidad de Huelva
- Victoria Aurora Ferrer Pérez - Universitat de les Illes Balears