Doctoral Programme in Economic History

• Summary
• Structure
• Organisation
• Competencies
• Admission
• Thesis supervisors
• Research lines
• International
• Quality

Core competencies:

- A systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods associated with
that field.
- The ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.
- The ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
- Ability to carry out critical analysis and to evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.
- Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society at large regarding their fields of
knowledge, using the methods and languages customary within their international scientific community.
- Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or
cultural advancement within a knowledge-based society.

Personal skills and abilities:

 - Function effectively in contexts where specific information is scarce.
 - Identify the key questions that need to be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
 - Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects within their field of expertise.
 - Work both as part of a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
 - Integrating knowledge, dealing with complexity and making judgements with limited information.
 - The critical and intellectual defence of solutions.