Doctoral thesis tutors
Once admitted and enrolled in the doctoral program, all doctoral students will be assigned by the corresponding academic committee a tutor, a doctor with accredited research experience, linked to the unit or School that organizes the program.
Supervising doctoral theses
The CAD will assign each doctoral student, within a maximum period of six months from his/her registration, a doctoral thesis supervisor who may or may not be the same as the tutor. This assignment may fall to any doctor, with duly accredited research experience, regardless of the University, Center or Institute in which he/she is enrolled. to provide its services.
Doctoral commitment document
Following the formalisation of the first enrolment, the doctoral candidate, the University, the tutor and, if applicable, the director must jointly sign the doctoral commitment, relating, among other issues, to the procedure for resolving any conflicts that may arise, to aspects relating to intellectual or industrial property and, in general, to the functions of supervising the doctoral candidate's research activity.
Doctoral Activities Document and Research Plan
1. Once the first registration has been completed, a personalized activity document will be produced for each doctoral student, where all activities of interest for the development of the doctoral student will be recorded, as well as the development of the thesis, for the purposes of review by the tutor and the thesis director and its evaluation by the CAD. corresponding
2. Before the end of the first act, the doctoral candidate will prepare a research plan, endorsed by the tutor and the director. This plan must include the methodology and objectives, the means and the time plan, as well as the favourable report of the University's Committee on Ethics in Experimental Research, in the cases indicated. This plan may be improved throughout the student's stay in the doctoral programme and must be endorsed by the tutor and the director.
3. Research plans that include experimentation with humans or with human biological samples, animal experimentation and the use of pathogenic biological agents or genetically modified organisms will be subject to evaluation by the Ethics Commission.
4. The CAD will annually evaluate the research plan and the activity document together with the reports that the tutor and the director must issue. A positive evaluation will be a requirement to continue in the programme. In the case of a negative evaluation, which must be justified, the doctoral student must be evaluated again within six months, for which a new research plan must be drawn up. If a new negative evaluation occurs, the doctoral student will be definitively withdrawn. In the event of these resolutions that do not exhaust the administrative process, the interested party may lodge an appeal, which will be resolved, following a report from the Postgraduate Studies Committee, the Rector or the person to whom he/she delegates.
5. For registration in subsequent years, a favorable report from the CAD of this personal activity document and the research plan will be necessary.
6. These documents must be registered and recorded in the Third Cycle Management Unit of the Postgraduate Center. It should be noted that the procedure used by the CAD of each university to control the activity document of each doctoral student, the certification of their data and the annual evaluation of the Research Plan is unique to this interuniversity Doctoral program.