Doctoral Programme on Gender-based Studies and Equality Policies

• Summary
• Structure
• Organisation
• Competencies
• Admission
• Research lines
• Quality

Basic competencies: 

1. Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the skills and methods of research associated with that field.
2. Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
3. Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
4. Ability to carry out a critical and assessment analysis and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
5. Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and society in general about their areas of knowledge in the ways and languages ​​commonly used in the international scientific community.
6. The ability to promote in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advances in a knowledge-based society.
    

Personal abilities and skills:

1. Knowing how to navigate in contexts where there is little specific information.
2. Finding the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
3. Designing, creating, developing and launching new and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
4. Working both in team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
5. Integrating knowledge, handling complexity, and making judgments with limited information.
6. The criticism and intellectual defence of solutions.

Other competencies:

1. Ability to integrate gender-based perspective in researches and social reality analysis from interdisciplinary theoretical contributions. Likewise, gender-based perspective will be incorporated in the set of policies considering, systematically, the priority situations and men's and women’s necessities, with a view to promoting equality between both sexes.
2. Applying the acquired knowledge in the identification of professional opportunities.
3. Taking into account entrepreneurship as a professional alternative.
4. Ability to fostering respect to fundamental and equal opportunities rights between men and women, equal opportunities principles and universal accessibility of disabled people, and specific values of a culture based on peace and democratic values.