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Doctoral Program in Social and Legal Sciences

Coordinator and academic commission

President

  • Prof. M.ª Asunción Sacristán Navarro  CV

Vowels

  • Prof. Joaquín López del Ramo CV
  • Prof. D. Desiderio Romero Jordan  CV
  • Prof. Ms. Mónica Segovia Pérez CV
  • Prof. Ms. María Sagrario Morán CV
  • Prof. Ms. Marta Ortiz de Urbina Criado CV
  • Prof. Enrique Moreno Serrano CV
  • Prof. Ms. M. Verónica de Priego Fernández CV
  • Prof. Mr. José Ricardo Vizcaíno Pérez CV
  • Prof. Mrs. María Jesús Arrazola Vacas CV
  • Prof. D. Manuel Villoria Mendieta CV
  • Prof. Ms. Ana Vico Belmonte CV

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The need for doctoral training for graduates in degrees related to Social and Legal Sciences is defended both in the academic and professional fields, where the need to continue researching and advancing in knowledge, techniques and methods is confirmed, and this doctoral training is the main way of training researchers.

The Rey Juan Carlos University proposes the Doctoral Program in Social and Legal 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 Social and Legal Sciences, and on the other another, to advance, through research, in response to the needs of society within the framework of an integrating program, whose structure and organization allow both specialization, updating and diversification of training, research and transfer in the field of Social and Legal Sciences.

Within the Doctorate Program in Social and Legal Sciences, the different lines of research will be developed, in accordance with the requirements established in the current legislation and in the regulations of the URJC, contrasting the experience and research proficiency, and the existence of competitive projects. . The line to which the doctoral student will be assigned will be determined by the access requirements and the subject of the thesis project. Each line of research, in turn, will define, without exclusion, the main topics for the development of the doctoral theses, based on the existing groups and the research experience of the assigned tutors and directors.

The Rey Juan Carlos University proposes with this Doctorate Program:

  • Train new researchers and prepare teams that contribute to social, scientific and economic progress.
  • Promote the training of new teachers in related disciplines.
  • Specialize postgraduates who are interested in their adequate professional, scientific and technical development.
  • Promote the creation of research groups and networks, nationally and internationally, and interdisciplinarity.

Objectives

The general objectives of the Doctoral Program of the Rey Juan Carlos University will be, at least the following:

  • Encourage and deepen knowledge and professional, scientific and technical development of doctoral students in the field in question.
  • Train new researchers capable of joining research teams.
  • Promote the teaching career, deepening the research training of future teachers.
  • The specialization of the student within the corresponding field, especially in its research aspect.
  • Provide methodological instruments from which to approach the analysis of theory and practice from an interdisciplinary perspective, and provide basic criteria from which to face practical questions, in the different areas in which they arise.
  • Have an adequate framework for the achievement and transmission of scientific advances.
  • Train doctoral students so that they can play an essential role in public or private institutions involved in innovation and research, so that they can lead the transfer from knowledge to the welfare of society.

In short, this Doctorate Program at the Rey Juan Carlos University aims to train doctors endowed with a critical scientific spirit, capacity for research and teamwork, through teaching organized in two areas: one general (techniques and research methods, tools and resources for the same) and another of specialization, typical of the different lines of consolidated specialization that are developed in it.

Competences

Basic skills

  • Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that 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 Competencies

  • That the student is able to identify open problems, not yet resolved, in the area of ​​Social and Legal Sciences.
  • To be able to acquire advanced scientific knowledge in the field of Social and Legal Sciences, which will allow them to generate new ideas within a line of research.
  • That the student is able to understand the procedure, value and limits of the scientific method in the field of Social and Legal Sciences; being able to identify, locate and obtain data required in a research paper; as well as to design and guide analytical, modeling and experimental investigations, in addition to evaluating data in a critical way, and drawing conclusions.
  • Being able to assess the importance of documentary sources, manage them, and search for information for the development of any research work.
  • To acquire the ability to read and understand publications within their field of study/research; as well as its cataloging and scientific value.
  • That the student acquires the necessary knowledge about the financing mechanisms of research and technology transfer; as well as current legislation on data protection and the legal protection of results.
  • That the student acquires the ability to prepare a scientific article of impact in the area of ​​Social and Legal Sciences.
  • To be able to prepare, present and defend a doctoral thesis in the area of ​​Social and Legal Sciences in which: a) a state of the art and critical analysis of the field of study is carried out, b) a systematic presentation of its original contributions , and c) an evaluation of the same.

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Access and admission

Program Admission Criteria

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:

ASSESSMENT AND SELECTION CRITERIA

SPECIFIC WEIGHT

OBSERVATIONS

The curricular profile of your previous studies (prioritizing according to the degree of affinity to the different specialties included in the program)

40% 

Fundamentally, the adequacy of the master's degree to the line of research will be valued, as well as previous research-oriented training. It will be valued have the endorsement of the professor who is going to direct the doctoral thesis.

The academic record and level of recognition of the institution of origin

30%   

The academic record of postgraduate and undergraduate studies will be valued, as well as the prestige of the University of origin

Relevant and accredited professional and research experience within the lines of research included in the doctoral program

20%

 

Any activity, merit or documented recognition that the student contributes and that serves to assess said professional and research experience.

10%

Accredited language level, attendance at seminars, conferences, conferences, summer courses, mobility (Erasmus and similar), etc.

For this doctoral program there is no type of special entrance test that the applicant must take.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program reserves the exceptional possibility of requesting a personal interview with a student to clarify or comment on any of the above evaluation and selection criteria; especially, those related to the minimum level of Spanish language in the case of non-Spanish speaking students.

Students admitted to the Doctoral Program in Social and Legal Sciences may request in writing to the Program Coordinator (), prior to enrollment, the completion of doctoral studies part-time. The document must indicate the circumstance(s) (work or professional activity, family responsibilities, disability or others) that justifies this exceptional regime, and must provide the corresponding documentation that proves the alleged circumstance(s). The Academic Commission of the Program will decide according to what is alleged and justified, as well as the number of applications submitted.

Admission to the part-time modality will mean that doctoral studies have a maximum duration of five years from admission to the program until the presentation of the doctoral thesis. This modality does not exonerate the doctoral student from carrying out the training activities of the Program annually, although in proportion to the dedication regime followed.

Number of new admission places

120 places

Quality guarantee

ANECA verification report

verified memory

Verification Resolution Council of Universities

RUCT link

BOCM Link

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:

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:

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.

Collaboration Agreements

  • Collaboration Agreement with the State Agency Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
  • Collaboration Agreement with Banco Santander SA for the promotion of Academic Activities.
  • Collaboration Agreement with the Camilo José Cela University.
  • Specific Educational Cooperation Agreement with the Carolina Foundation.
  • General Academic Collaboration Agreement with the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees.
  • Specific agreement to carry out third-cycle studies with the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Catholic University.
  • Doctoral Thesis Joint Supervision Agreement with the University of Minho (Portugal).
  • Doctoral Thesis Joint Supervision Agreement with Roma Tre University.