Coordinator and academic commission

Mercedes Ruiz-Garijo coordinator of the program at URJC, CV

Research lines

• Gender, History and Cultural Production
• Gender, Health and Sexualities.
• Gender, Economy, Law and Equality Policies.
• Feminist Theories, Citizenship and Globalization
• Gender, Gender Violence and Education

Presentation and competitions

The present proposal for a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies constitutes, on the one hand, a novel commitment in the Spanish university scene, and on the other, a need derived from a long-experienced training demand. The most recent research has shown how in many fields of scientific knowledge, from the humanities to medicine, through the social sciences and engineering, the variables of sex and gender are insufficiently considered. Science, like any other field of human activity, is not free from the cultural and social conditions of its time. Gender stereotypes, and the lower social value to which women are subjected are often transferred to a stereotyped and lesser consideration of their specific realities, whether social or biological, in research. In this sense, in recent decades, gender studies have contributed to revealing and understanding areas of reality hitherto unexplored and also to reducing biases and errors in concepts and theories. In some cases, notably in Social Sciences and Humanities, they have contributed to important reformulations of the disciplinary foundations of some fields of knowledge. Our fundamental objective is to contribute to continue exploring and building these exciting and fruitful lines of research.

The objectives of this doctoral program fall within the promotion of gender equality demanded by European community policies, national legislation, as well as international commitments on equality and non-discrimination between women and men. In this sense, this Doctorate adopts as its main objective the gender mainstreaming approach, which facilitates interdisciplinary professional and research training in gender studies.

General characteristics of an Interuniversity Doctorate

Students enroll in any of the participating universities and are for all purposes students of the university in which they enroll. Thus, they must carry out the administrative procedures at that university and they will receive an interuniversity degree whose issuance will be managed by the university in which they are enrolled, which is also responsible for the custody of the files. The general coordination is rotating. The rotating nature of the coordination is relevant for the academic and administrative management of the program, but not for the files or organization of the personal work of the students. The temporary nature of the general coordination commission of the program will be for a period of three years.

Although students are enrolled in a specific university, they can request that their doctoral thesis be directed or co-directed by any of the professors who are part of the program in the different participating universities. Below is the information on the participating universities and the link to the web page common to all of them. The Program is led by the Autonomous University of Madrid and its general coordinator is Professor Yolanda Guerrero Navarrete, Professor of Medieval History.

Access and admission

Instructions for theses by compendium of publications and by chapters

Doctoral Thesis by compendium of publications in the Interuniversity Doctorate Program in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

Participating universities

Coordinating University:

• Autonomous University of Madrid  More information

Participating universities and institutions:

• Alcala de Henares University
• Complutense University
• University of Huelva
• Balearic Islands University
• University Jaume I Castellón
• Laguna University
• Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
• Alicante University
• CSIC Higher Center for Scientific Research

Organization of programs

Scholarships

Regulation

Quality guarantee

ANECA verification report

Verification Resolution Council of Universities

RUCT link

BOCM Link