PhD in Tourism
Academic year 2024-25
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Interdisciplinary and specific educational activities
PhD students wishing to deposit their thesis must have completed a minimum of 30 hours of cross-disciplinary and specific training activities prior to initiating the procedures for submitting the thesis.
They must submit these hours of training activities alongside the last annual review.
The CAD shall apply a set of scales in relation to the following cross-disciplinary and specific activities:
- Cross-disciplinary and specific training activities.
- Attended courses, conferences and seminars.
- Papers published in indexed and / or prestigious journals.
- Papers published in journals other than those stipulated in section c above.
The CAD shall apply the following scales:
In order to calculate the training hours corresponding to sections a and b above, the cross-disciplinary and specific activities published on the PhD programme website shall be taken as a reference point.
Each publication falling within section c (i.e. papers published in indexed and / or prestigous journals) will be worth the equivalent of 10 hours of training.
Each publication falling within section d (i.e. papers published in non-indexed and / or less prestigious journals) will be worth the equivalent of 5 hours of training.
Specific Training Activities
First semester activities:
- Ethics applied to the scientific and professional practice
- Scientific communication
- Writing and publishing articles in the Social Sciences
- Writing and publishing articles in English
- Acquisition of skills to write a research project (EU-funded)
- Information seeking, communication and dissemination of science
- Business model generation
Activities to be carried out in either semester:
- Mobility
- Attending seminars for doctorands or conferences
- Day of the PhD in Tourism
- Methodological training