This section gathers usual queries of academic nature related to the entry to doctoral studies, the training activities of the Programme in Clinical and Health Psychology and about the news on doctoral theses regulations. For all those queries that are strictly administrative related, ask the Doctoral Studies Service

Entry to Doctoral Studies:

1. Do I have to complete the Master’s Degree for applying to it?
2. I have studied outside Spain, what steps should I take regarding to the legalisation of my studies?
3. Can I access it with any kind of Master’s Degree?
4. If I have entered to the Official Master’s Degree with a Diplomatura, Technical Engineering or Technical Architecture (Former Spanish Undergraduate Degrees) (equivalent to 180 ECTS) and the Master’s Degree has less than 120 ECTS, Can I access to the Doctoral Programme?
5. What rating system is used for admitting a student?
6. When to do the pre-enrolment and where to apply for it?
7. Do I need to have a supervisor and/or thesis director before to pre-enrol?
8. Can I prepare the doctoral thesis in a part-time basis?
9. What is the duration of the doctoral studies?
10. How do I know if I am accepted?
11. How do I prepare the enrolment?
12. Who should I contact if I have doubts once enrolled in the programme?

Training activities:

1. What is the Personalised Document of Doctoral activities?
2. What should I do during the first year of doctoral studies?
3. How is the follow-up of my training programme and research plan monitored?
4. What should I do during the years after the first year of enrolment?
5. How long can I be without enroling?
6. What should I do in order that a stay in international research centres will be recognised as a training activity of the doctoral programme? Can it be used for obtaining the doctoral certification with International Certification?

Doctoral thesis:

1. Where can I find all the information regarding the submission, assessment and defence of the doctoral thesis?
2. Is there an alternative to the traditional doctoral thesis?
3. I would like to write the thesis in another language, what should I do?
4. If my doctoral thesis is subject to protection and technology and/or knowledge transfers processes, what should I do?
5. What if have I not completed it within the established deadline?
6. For obtaining the International Certification for the Doctoral Qualification, can the two experts informing about the thesis be part of the thesis assessment committee?
7. If I am not enrolled in the doctoral programme, is a three-month stay valid to get the International Certification for the doctoral degree?
8. Within which period must the doctoral students from doctoral programmes previous to the RD 99/2011 defend their doctoral thesis?