The doctoral students are free when choosing the director of the doctoral thesis, as well as the topic which will be decided together with the supervisor.
The functions of the supervisor of the doctoral thesis are the following:
- To guide the students' decision as regards the research topic on which it shows preferences, taking into account the research lines of the doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies (lines which are part of the Doctorate website, in the guide of the programme assessment and in the protocol of EHA Doctorate). The subject must be decided, therefore, between the student and the work supervisor.
- To guide in the initial bibliographical search process and obtention of necessary means to carry out such research (consultation of archives, working field, compilation of corpus, theoretical framework, etc.).
- To manage and advise the composition and production of such project, both in formal aspects (structure, organisation, presentation, etc.) and of content (development of determined subjects, new contributions, etc.).
- To supervise and assess the advances and the final result of such production.
- To verify that the sources and studies consulted in the research are carefully and precisely quoted, both in the body of work and in the final bibliography.
- To prepare and supervise necessary procedures for the defense of the thesis.
The professors, therefore, must inform the students about the lines of work, methodology, structure and bibliographical sources necessary for the research and about the composition and writing patterns, with the help of some general instructions provided by the EHA Doctoral programme.
As regards the patterns for the execution of the research and criteria for the assessment and approval of projects and theses, a document has been prepared, approved by the Academic Committee of the Advanced Hispanic Studies programme, with the indications and criteria, which are part of the Guide for doctoral students document, text available in the Doctoral Students Community Virtual Classroom of the Department of Spanish, and in the Doctoral Thesis section of the programme website.
