Doctoral program in Communication Sciences

Presentation

The doctoral program in Communication Sciences is a doctoral program specialized in studies in Journalism, Audiovisual Communication and Cultural Communication Industries, Advertising and Public Relations, and Sociology, aimed at offering excellent research training in these lines, with a multidisciplinary and international orientation.

The Rey Juan Carlos University proposes the doctoral program in Communication Sciences to provide and offer doctoral training that contributes, on the one hand, to promoting the training of people with competence in research and innovation in these areas of knowledge, and on the other hand. , to advance, through research, in responding to the needs of society within the framework of an integrative program, whose structure and organization simultaneously allows specialization, updating and diversification of training, research and the transference.

Objectives

This program will allow:

• Offer quality doctoral training, endorsed by researchers and groups with recognized experience.
• Consolidate the excellent doctoral training in Communication Sciences that has been provided and promote doctoral training in the proposed areas in which the University already has experienced researchers.
• Train new researchers in communication sciences who promote current strategic lines of research and open new disruptive research frontiers.
• Specialize postgraduates who are interested in their adequate professional, scientific and technical development.
• Promote the training of new teachers in related disciplines.
• Promote the creation of research groups and networks, national and international, promoting interdisciplinarity so that they focus their research on the challenges of society identified in the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation, the State Plan for Scientific Research and Technical and Innovation Plan and the current Regional Plan for scientific research and technological innovation related to the scope of the doctoral program.

This doctoral program at the Rey Juan Carlos University has as its immediate objective the training of doctors equipped with a critical scientific spirit, capacity for research and teamwork. It will be through specific and transversal training organized in two areas, one general (research techniques and methods, tools and resources for this) and another area of ​​specialization specific to the different lines and consolidated research topics that are developed in it.

Competences

Basic skills

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the skills and research methods related to said field.
• Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
• Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
• Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages ​​commonly used in their international scientific community.
• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society. 

Personal abilities and skills

• Get along in contexts in which there is little specific information.
• Find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
• Design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
• Work both as a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
• The criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.

Other skills:

• Ability to identify open or unresolved problems in the lines of research of the Doctoral Program in Communication Sciences
• Ability to acquire advanced scientific knowledge in the Program's lines of research, which allows you to generate new ideas within a line of research.
• Ability to understand the procedure, value and limits of the scientific method in the areas of the Program's lines of research to identify, locate and obtain the data required in a research work, as well as to design and guide basic and applied research, in addition to treat and evaluate data in a critical way, and draw conclusions and discuss them with existing prior knowledge.
• Ability to assess the importance of documentary sources in lines of research, manage them, and search for the necessary information for the development of any research work.
• Ability to read and understand publications within their field of study/research, as well as their cataloging and scientific value
• Acquire the necessary knowledge about the financing mechanisms for research and technology transfer, as well as current legislation on data protection and the legal protection of results.
• Ability to produce scientific publications of impact in the Program's research lines.
• Ability to prepare, present and defend a doctoral thesis in the lines of research of the Program in which: a) a state of the art and critical analysis of the field of study, b) a systematic presentation of its original contributions, and c) a critical evaluation of these.
• Ability to manage and autonomously organize work.
• Ability to develop an ethical and socially responsible vision of research and innovation in the field of Communication and Sociology.

General requirements International Doctoral School

General requirements International Doctoral School

Program Admission Criteria

The PhD program is aimed at students with a clear research vocation in the fields of Communication Sciences, Cultural Communication Industries, and Sociology, who possess advanced knowledge of the fundamental concepts of these disciplines and who are willing and able to acquire new knowledge, competencies, and research skills applied to them.

1 Profile

Consequently, the admission profile for the Doctoral Program in Communication Sciences will be preferably, but not exclusively, students with undergraduate, graduate, or master's degrees related to Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, Journalism, Digital Communication, Cultural Communication Industries, Social Sciences, and related disciplines.

2 Profile

Degrees related to the Program are understood to be those that, while belonging to the area of ​​Social Sciences, have a significant emphasis on the analysis of communicative phenomena and objects of study, the Cultural Industries of Communication, and/or Sociology.

More specifically, the doctoral candidate's training must be tailored to the content of the research lines chosen from among the different lines offered within the program, and they must demonstrate, through their academic credentials and resume, a minimum of research experience related to the program's lines.

In order to successfully complete a doctorate, it will be necessary to demonstrate creative, innovative and problem-solving skills associated with the field of research, academic work and the scientific construction of knowledge, as well as an entrepreneurial profile, capable of achieving short- and medium-term objectives. Likewise, the requirement to carry out quality, constant and rigorous work requires autonomous work and planning skills, which are essential in the scientific-research work that doctoral students must develop in the doctoral program.

The acceptance or denial of admission will be carried out by the Academic Commission, taking into account, in addition to the general and specific requirements of the Program, the following criteria:

A minimum grade of 5 out of 10 is required to be admitted. This doctoral programme does not require any special entrance exam that the applicant must take. However, the Academic Committee of the doctoral programme reserves the right to request a personal interview with a student in order to clarify or comment on any of the above assessment and selection criteria; in particular, those relating to the minimum level of Spanish language in the case of non-Spanish speaking students.

Number of new admission places

The number of new admission places will be 20 students, reserving 5% of the places for students with disabilities.

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Composition of the commission

Code of good practices

Code of good practices

Results report

Once the follow-up of the Doctorate Program has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information is shown on the results obtained in the follow-up of said Degree, differentiated by academic year.

Report by academic year:

• Results report

General information collection plan

Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are being carried out as part of the general information collection plan:

• Survey addressed to new students of doctoral programs
• Doctoral student satisfaction survey with the doctoral program
• Satisfaction surveys of the doctoral student with the training activities of the doctoral program
• Assessment surveys of supervisors and thesis tutors
• Faculty satisfaction survey with the doctoral program

Survey results:

• Indicators

Improvement actions

• Improvement actions

Renewal of accreditation

Renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official qualifications registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Qualifications (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment. In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.

• Final report renewal of accreditation

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