PhD in Nutrition and Food Science

Academic year 2023-24

  This study programme will not be continued; new students will not be admitted.

Lines of research

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General and specific competencies

  • Being awarded a PhD from the University of the Balearic Islands
  • Authoring research articles in specialised scientific journals
  • Authoring papers for scientific conferences related to human nutrition and food
  • Broad training that provides knowledge and skills in human nutrition and food.

Core Skills

  • CB11 - Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research methods and skills linked to this field
  • CB12 - The ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process
  • CB13 - The ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research
  • CB14 - The ability to undertaken critical analysis and assessment, and summarise new and complex ideas
  • CB15 - The ability to communicate to the academic and scientific community, and society in general, your areas of knowledge in the manner and through the languages commonly used in the international academic community
  • CB16 - The ability to promote in academic and professional contexts scientific, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

Personal Skills and Abilities

  • CA01 - Dealing with contexts where there is scant specific information
  • CA02 - Finding the key questions to answer in order to resolve a complex problem
  • CA03 - Designing, creating, developing and undertaking new innovative projects in your area of knowledge
  • CA04 - Working in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context
  • CA05 - Integrating knowledge, dealing with complexity and formulating opinions with limited information
  • CA06 - Intellectual criticism and defence of solutions.

Other Skills

  • CE1 - Independently learning new knowledge to undertake basic and applied research in nutrition and food science
  • CE2 - Knowing and being able to use advanced techniques and software that is complex or has special requirements, as well as its applications, in nutrition and food science, in addition to designing analytical strategies for specific cases using a combination of appropriate techniques.

Support and guidance information

The academic committee of the Doctoral Programme will assign a tutor to the applicant (once he or she is admitted). The tutor will be a doctor with accredited research experience and involved in the doctoral programme. Within six months from the first enrolment, the academic committee of the doctorate will assign to every student a thesis supervisor, which may or may not be the same as the tutor.

Supervision and monitoring of doctorand training activities and their PhD theses shall be in line with the UIB procedures for PhDs (RD 99/2011), the UIB Doctoral Degree Regulations (https://seu.uib.cat/fou/acord/13084/) and the verified degree report that you may consult on the "Results" webpage. The administrative and academic procedures that students must perform during their PhD may be viewed on the "Procedures" section of the UIB Doctoral School website: